I’m attaching a pic of info about it. A regular aa or aaa is 1.5 volts. Rechargeable are 1.2 volts.
Thanks for the explanation, Timothy. I’m not sure rechargeable would be the way to go for me. I’m going to try the lithium ultimate energizer batteries. If that doesn’t solve the problem, I’ll be calling Medtronic.
When I had a Medtronic pump I got 2 new batteries with every new delivery of supplies. That didn’t last the whole time, but it lasted longer than a month.
Not sure even why they sent me them. They also included iv3000 over tapes.
Might have been Kaiser putting it together back then. Not sure how it goes now.
I have a tandem. It’s rechargeable.
Before I went on Medicare, my previous insurance paid for new batteries, IV3000 and IV prep wipes. Now those are all at my expense. Really not a big deal, except for the darned batteries.
My BG meter is rechargeable. I’ve no idea why Medtronic didn’t consider making their pumps rechargeable. It really bothers me to be putting so many batteries either in the trash or saving them up for a year until my town does a hazardous waste collection.
I am sorry Ruth, I do not, but what Tim says in the next response makes sense.
Thought I’d give you an update on the battery situation, since you were all so helpful with this.
I finally got some of the lithium batteries. So far, the first one has lasted 19 days, instead of just 10-11 days. Haven’t compared the prices/battery yet, but even if it’s a bit more costly, I’m happy to be putting fewer batteries in the trash.
Will have to wait and see if this keeps up. With the alkaline batteries I was getting 2 weeks, then it went down to only 10-11 days. As long as I keep getting nearly 3 weeks on the lithium, I’ll keep using them.
The voltage is irrelevant, get some eneloops from Japan and a decent charger and change them once a week or 10 days or whatever and save a ton of money, and the envirnoment as you can use them other places. Absolutely no need to ever buy alkaline or lithium except for a few isolated applications. If you swap them on a SCHEDULE, The only concern is they drop off faster then an alkaline at the end. I probably have 50 eneloops, been using them since dirt was old.
It turns out that I’m getting 18 days out of the lithium batteries, instead of just 11. I’m definitely going to look into using rechargeables!
This looks good if you are using AA
Batteries are made in Japan, buy batteries made in Japan ONLY
Charger made in China, that is OK