Battle of the Batteries

Written By David Mann

We put three battery brands to the test to see which would last the longest in Loggerhead's passive acoustic recorders.

The Test

  • One pack of 3 D-cells for each brand

  • Record 60s

  • Sleep 60s

  • 96 kHz sample rate

Amazon Basics was the winner, running for 26 days, whereas Energizer lasted only 20 days. Sorry Energizer bunny.

In summary, using Amazon Basics alkaline batteries with a 50% duty cycle:
Snap would run 26 days
LS1 would run 104 days
LS1X would run 208 days

David Mann
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