How to recycle single use batteries?

Originally Posted by bjybjy

If it was a flash one time use camera they have a pretty powerful capacitator in them and that is probably what got him. You can hear the capacitor humm/whirr and charge up after you take a picture with one of them.



My father is an HVAC tech and told me a story about how he learned the hard way not to store capacitators in the same pants pocket as a AA battery. He had replaced an old capacitator on a furnace and put the old one in his pocket after discharging it. About 3 hours later he got one hell of a shock right where you don't want to get a shock! He figures the loose AA battery in his pocket much have charged the capacitator somehow.

I think your Dad thought he discharged the cap. but it still had a charge. There is no way a 1.5 volt battery could charge up a 240 volt cap enough to do any thing.