Although in recent years, the employment of 9V batteries in portable electronics has declined, you can still find several different household devices that use these cells.

As we discussed, the lower self-discharge feature from the Max-E battery helps it be conducive to your numerous applications. Basically, anywhere feel free to use an alkaline battery, use Max E batteries – and use them as much as 1000 times.

Even though this by itself is a tremendous savings, the true power of Max E technology is shown in the Ansmann 9V battery.  First, the 9V Max E cell has the same capacity as the normal rechargeable – 250 mah.  This helps make the cell readily available for both high-drain and low drain applications. Max-E 9V’s works extremely well in high power  RC cars, metal detectors, wireless mics, walkie-talkies, paintball guns, tens units and other medical devices, personal fans, along with low-drain devices including smoke detectors, carbon monoxide detectors, together with guitar effects pedals, and audio visual equipment.

Many of us commonly hear the “warnings” concerning the utilization of rechargeables in smoke detectors due to the problem with self-discharge from standard rechargeables. While we would agree that the standard rechargeable battery really should not be employed for a smoke detector, etc. we’d certainly advocate the use of the low-self discharge 9V cell — because these batteries maintain 85% of their power each year.  Smoke detector batteries were made to be changed every 6 months – well within the capabilities of a Max E 9V cell.

Finally, because of the shift away from the utilization of 9V cells in electrical appliances and many times it is hard to come by a battery charger that also accomodates the 9V battery.  The Ansmann Zerowatt Powerline 5 Battery Charger does support  the charging of one 9V cell and causes it to be a complete charger for all your household battery needs.