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Duracell Powercheck technology detects battery charge

14.10.2015

Duracell has developed Powercheck technology to help you accurately determine battery charge. This will allow you not to throw away seemingly discharged batteries, but to use the residual charge in devices with low power consumption.

Usually, if a battery-powered device stops showing signs of life, we simply replace the batteries and the problem is solved. But hardly anyone thought that the batteries that are sent to the scrap were not used up by at least a third. According to a European study by Battery Back, the European Recycling Platform, the Energy Saving Trust and the Duracell brand, one in three batteries has up to 40% charge left.

To prevent people from losing money by throwing half the cost of a battery into the trash, Duracell has developed Powercheck technology, which is already implemented in Duracell TurboMax batteries. This innovation allows you to accurately determine the remaining charge, so that batteries with residual energy can be used in more energy-intensive devices (for example, in remote controls or children's toys).

Devices with a higher power consumption (for example, a digital camera or an electric shaver) can turn off even when a third of the capacity is left in the battery. When using Duracell TurboMax batteries, you will always know how much energy is left in the power cell. To do this, simply click on the white circles of the Powercheck indicator.

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