Free Nine Volt Battery Clips And Small Enclosures

Recycle your "dead" 9v batteries into something useful and help save the planet.

Step 1: Tools And Supplies

Tools:

Soldering iron

Flat head screwdriver

Supplies:

A 9 volt battery with a metal case (I recommend Duracell)

Solder

Two small bits of wire

Comments

[codongolev]

if anyone wants to know where to get free nine volts, make friends with a sound guy. my brother's a sound guy at my church, and I was looking for a place to get nine volts for cheap. I then remembered that sound guys follow the mantra of "better safe than sorry" and replace batteries after every use. I asked him, and he showed me a drawer full of batteries, just waiting to be donated to home depot for use in their equipment (where dying batteries isn't such a disaster). I tested them with my nine volt flashlight, and sure enough, about ninety percent were good. I now have 22 perfectly good nine volts waiting to power my stuff.

[doo da do]

I have not run across any 9V flashlights did u make it or purchase one, I would like to have one.

[codongolev]

I made it. it's a pretty cool build, trying to fit all those lights in a teeny tiny space. they're pretty fun to make.

[tobybirch007]

I did this in order to remove 2 aaaa's to make a 6v pack. My battery didn't have the round batteries, it had 6 rectangular cells stacked on top of each other and fused together. seems like it's a better use of the volume and might last longer... I'd post a pic but can't find my camera.

[codongolev]

I've had that happen. thankfully I only wanted the clip, although I was a bit confused when I opened it.

[tobybirch007]

For anyone interested, so far rayovac and fuji novel batteries do not have the AAAA batteries.

[lucek]

panasonic-yes energiser-yes ultra life-yes Duracell-some but not all DieHard-no EverReady-no lithium 9v batteries have 3 3.2 cells some brands of cheaper carbon zinc only have 5 1.5v cells.

[FeedTheGrid]

Nicely done.

[BeanGolem]

Being 13 is stupid! None of the cool kids are 13. hah. jk. Nice I'ble. I like this one because you get 2 new parts out of it, both of which can be used in subsequent projects. The male/female design of the 9V battery clip makes it reversible, so that's nice. You should write an I'ble that uses it!

[freerunnin1]

LaxLurvr is 13 lol

[BeanGolem]

I know that. That's why I said it.

[freerunnin1]

and me :P

[jedi pen-gui-n]

so much for my first i'ble

[LaxLuvr]

What?

[jedi pen-gui-n]

this was my idea for my first instrucitable. oh well.

[LaxLuvr]

Please remember to rate the instructable! :-)

[ac1D]

its already on instructable, more than 3 times. good tough

[LaxLuvr]

one of those 3 was posted on my other account ( I almost completely changed the instructable) and I spoke to the author of the other one.

[nepheron]

Awesome!

[digitaltripper]

WOW cool idea!! Way to go.