Ode to a Battery
Aug 19th, 2008 by craig
I have a speedometer on my bicycle so that I can keep track of my average speeds and distances. I reset my trip meters and averages before each ride, but it also has a total mileage function that you can’t reset. The total mileage count starts over at zero when you change the battery. Most batteries last right around 1000 miles. 
But not this one. It’s been so long that I don’t even know when it was that I put this battery in, but I can tell you that it was over 4000 miles ago. At a time when most products barely make it to the end of their warranty period, this battery exceeded it’s expected life by a factor of 4. And you know what, after it gave out – after just over 4000 miles – it actually came back on for awhile, and functioned to the end of that ride, about another 15 miles. I have decided to retire it now, instead of letting it die completely, so that it can have a little time to relish it’s accomplishment and die in a quiet peace without doing any more work. Great job, little battery!
[Thanks to Kristin for the great portrait of the battery on the event of it’s retirement.]
I need me one of those batteries! I have to change the batteries in Dillon’s toothbrush almost MONTHLEY! I don’t think I get 4000 brush strokes in his teeth with those stupid things, but it would be nice if I did!