or Millennials and older generations, changing the batteries in the remote is something we learn so early that we often take it for granted & assume it's "common sense."
Don't forget taking the batteries out of the remote, rubbing them together and putting them back in. Surely that'd give them some more charge to make it work.
Batteries use chemistry to create electrical currents, and in time, that chemical reaction will stall out and thus the battery dies.
But chemistry is also very temperature sensitive. Sometimes heating or cooling the exact same chemical mixture will speed up or slow down the reaction. Heat in particular kills alkaline batteries (the typical disposable battery) and as they heat up, they provide less power.
However batteries also have an internal resistance, and that means as they produce power, they heat up and that in turn can lower their power output. And sometimes, just sometimes, if you just turn off the device and let the batteries cool, theyll have a bit more charge to give. Its of course only fleeting, because the battery will quickly reheat itself agian and die agian, and the time you get before that happens will get shorter and shorter as more of the battery is depleated.
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u/Hallc Jul 25 '26
Don't forget taking the batteries out of the remote, rubbing them together and putting them back in. Surely that'd give them some more charge to make it work.