Battery Security
I need to share this funny story and offer a warning about the methods used to secure a battery in it’s place. Those of us with emergency lighting know that there is usually a 12V battery hiding inside to power the lights when the power decides to vacate. Now, unless you live in California and have to deal with earthquakes these rarely need to deal with vibration that would require you to strap the battery down.
It seems however, that a helpful technician thought the battery might sneak out and escape or something and decided to glue the battery into the case. This makes replacing the battery a bit problematic as the plastic protective shell and the casing has apparently become rather enamored to each other and do not want to be separated.
Unfortunately this leaves the person in charge of replacing the battery one heck of a headache to deal with. Now unless they manage to develop a permanent battery you really do NOT need to glue a battery in. At least I have yet to see a good reason to do so.
Written by
Ken