6 VOLT BATTERY “HACK” RESPONSE - THE INTERWEB IS FULL OF LIES!

Shan Sadiq | Tuesday September 18, 2007 | 14,869 Views |
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After watching the 6 volt battery hack video, I ran out and bought a 6 volt battery to see if it really has 32 AAs in it. I used a lighter and a screwdriver to take the little bastard apart.

Here are my findings…

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If you couldn’t tell from the pictures we didn’t find 32AAs instead we found 4 bigass versions of AA batteries made for an alien planet inhabitated by GIANTS! WE’VE BEEN DUPED FELLOW INTORNET HOMEBOYS!!

What we have learned today:

1. Not every 6 volt battery has 32 AAs in it.
2. Do not believe everything you see on the Internet.

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Comments

  1. kmcg
    September 20th, 2007 at 8:58 pm

    I did the same with the same results.

  2. ryan
    September 21st, 2007 at 9:44 am

    I believe it has something to do with the brand. different companies do it in different ways.

  3. some guy
    September 21st, 2007 at 2:49 pm

    but can we trust you…you are, after all, the internet.

  4. Anonymous
    September 21st, 2007 at 7:12 pm

    coolio. i want some tose huge batteries…

  5. Mo Kakwan
    September 22nd, 2007 at 12:26 am

    And apparently “Heavy Duty” is sign code for “Crap” so even if we did pull out 32 AA batteries. They’d be the crappy kind that die out on you right when you reach the boss on your 1990 gameboy.

  6. Amit Chowdhry
    September 22nd, 2007 at 9:31 am

    http://www.retrojunk.com/details_commercial/3319/

  7. Shayd
    September 22nd, 2007 at 10:57 am

    Well, let’s see. The one in the supposedly “fake” video is a Powercell 6 Volt Lantern Battery. Let me take a guess at what you tried. You tried the cheapest 6 volt you could find OR you simply used a different battery. Get a Powercell like the one in the video and try that out. Maybe we haven’t been duped after all.

  8. Big Daddy Dog
    September 22nd, 2007 at 11:23 am

    I am gonna buy a powercell 6 volt lattern battery today… I’ll find out for sure… As I suspect Shayd may be correct.

  9. diner dave
    September 23rd, 2007 at 12:07 pm

    I tried it too… but the only cost was the time it took to dismantle a dead lantern bat. Found four big batteries wired in series. The AA batteries in the vid weren’t wired together at all. Before you try this, examine the bottom of the battery, you’ll see a grid pattern, that will give you some idea as to the size of the cells inside.

  10. www.thatYdude.com
    September 24th, 2007 at 7:11 am

    glad Wal Mart was out of lantern batteries, I was going to get one this weekend.

  11. Jack
    September 24th, 2007 at 11:20 am

    Haha.. I bet you it was a Duracell (MAYBE Energizer.. But theyre speshul so i doubt it) executive who made the video..

    NO, wait! HAD to be Rayovac.. They knew that everyone would get the cheapest ones available, and voila! 400% 6v battery sales this quarter alone!

  12. battery guy
    October 1st, 2007 at 8:19 am

    Tried it with an expired Duracell this weekend. Inside were 4 regular “D” cells and some cardboard. Surpisingly these were retail wrapped “D” cells with best before date and everything. The batteries just fell out and were not wired in at all.

  13. Damn Duped Too!!
    October 9th, 2007 at 6:42 pm

    Well we got the email on 10-8-07 ran to Wal-mart on 10-9-07 and my hubby said he had to buy a 6 volt just to see if was try, with having 4 kids and all the electronics they have to have. And of course by amazement with found the same big ass batteries. If someone is brave enough to figure out what brand or if at all has 32 batteries, please do tell!!!

  14. Ethan
    October 10th, 2007 at 4:42 pm

    I tried it with both Rayovac and Die Hard 6 Volt lantern batteries only to be disappointed by the typical 4 large battery scheme.

  15. Well that makes complete sense
    October 11th, 2007 at 8:37 pm

    What???? Are you all retarded? Did you really think that battery manufacturers are SOOOOOO stupid? NOPE. I didn’t. Therefore, I didn’t fall for this trick. It’s VERY simple, but I’ll explain for you retards out there. Just go buy the AA batteries. Are you that cheap? If you go though them that fast, buy in bulk.

    My 2 cents.

  16. Boogie2000
    October 12th, 2007 at 10:32 am

    If you use common sense, then you’d realize that the four batteries inside are 1.5 volts each which equals 6 volts. however no manufacturer is going to go the extra expense of installing 32 batteries full of the same metal used to make regular batteries and then only put .187 volts in each battery.

  17. Paul
    October 12th, 2007 at 10:47 am

    Batteries work because of the laws of chemistry. The basic cell always has 1.5 volts. Batteries don’t work well in parallel (the cell with the highest voltage tries to charge other parallel connected cells and the result is self-discharge). The large number of cells would have to be connected in parallel to come up with 6 volts. Look for sales on AA batteries, you can usually find them for less than $.60 per battery. They last a long time.

  18. Hopeful
    October 15th, 2007 at 8:26 am

    Although its technically possible and I would agree that this is probable, there are a few things that prove that this video is fake. First of all when they removed the lid, they edited the transition between prying it open with the screwdriver and showing the batteries. Secondly when they revealed the batteries, they were all in the upward direction so there was no way that any of them could have been wired in series.

  19. Battery Expert
    October 15th, 2007 at 5:46 pm

    Well, I was so curious after all the discussion above and so I bought several different kinds of 6 volt batteries. All but one had long “D” type batteries. The other one had 600 AA batteries. Thats right 600. The cost saving were enormous. I am now running my entire house off of this one 6 volt and its contents.

  20. Battery Expert
    October 15th, 2007 at 5:48 pm

    Addendum: In the six volts with the four “D” type batteries I opened the “D” types and they were each filled with 30 disk batteries like you find in a watch. In other news, I opened my girlfriends vibrator and found 27 “D” cell batteries.

  21. Amit Chowdhry, Blogging From Minneapolis
    October 15th, 2007 at 7:37 pm

    Giggity Giggity Giggity Giggity

  22. Hopeful
    October 16th, 2007 at 10:22 am

    Maybe I can push this hoax a little further and make a video showing how a standard “D” battery really contains 4 AAA batteries.

  23. Read the caption!
    October 17th, 2007 at 10:15 am

    The video opens with the title “Gagfilms”. Perhaps this explains the batteries.

  24. Dave
    October 18th, 2007 at 6:24 pm

    I bought a german import battery called a REKCUS, inside were 32 AA batteries.
    Voila!!!

  25. Paul
    October 19th, 2007 at 11:22 am

    Rekcus as in sucker backwards! lol

  26. Gale
    October 19th, 2007 at 6:01 pm

    Just wondering if anyone tried to take those 4 big batteries apart to see what is in those????? Maybe that is where the pot of gold is hidden!!!!

  27. Joey
    October 22nd, 2007 at 10:51 am

    I found a kitten inside my 6 volt battery. Maybe you all are just doing it wrong.

  28. Thrifty
    October 22nd, 2007 at 8:38 pm

    If you have an Ikea near you, they sell a 10-pack of AAs for $2.99. It’s a Swedish brand, but they seem to work pretty well.

  29. Guyla
    October 23rd, 2007 at 6:59 pm

    if you live in Canada and have a Superstore near you, you can buy a box of 40 no name AA’s for about $15. They are yellow. I don’t mean scared and afraid, I mean their actual color. I use them all the time because I am cheap. No, wait, frugal, yes frugal. Also they work quite well.

  30. GrandpaJohn
    October 25th, 2007 at 10:26 am

    This was entertaining. Seriously, the batteries that power analog and digital cameras often are in fact made of a stack of thinner hearing-aid type batteries. I actually saw one taken apart by a camera tech for another customer while I was waiting. The shop was out of what the customer needed so the tech cut open another type of battery to get the right one.

  31. Barnum was right........
    October 29th, 2007 at 7:01 am

    Well for those of you who are old enough Barnum was right, “Fools and there money will soon part”. People it is very simple, the math makes no sense, and the law of chemistry says it won’t work.

  32. I think I peed
    October 31st, 2007 at 1:06 am

    This was the best spook e-mail I have ever gotten. Not so much the video, but doing the researxh and finding this page!!!

  33. I measured the batteries
    November 1st, 2007 at 2:38 pm

    I measured the combined height of 2 AA batteries and then the height of the 6-volt. It just didn’t add up.

  34. Somebody spark me....
    November 3rd, 2007 at 4:54 pm

    I agree with #32. This page made me laugh. Some days you feel like a moron - today I feel more like Einstein.

  35. borganic
    November 7th, 2007 at 2:29 pm

    well its faek but you might also like this other similar scam by energizer

    and if you really want to save money on batteries join the powermall and get paid to shop for batteries and all the other stuff you buy online.
    go here if you want to do that
    http://www.borganic.info

  36. borganic
    November 7th, 2007 at 2:30 pm

    oops forgot the scam site
    http://www.newstarget.com/022193.html

  37. The Markster
    November 12th, 2007 at 2:17 pm

    Does anyone take the time to note that 32 AA Batteries would equal 48 Volts - Hello. Each AA Battery is 1.5 volts - please people do the math. Also please note “Gagfilms” is the maker of the video. Get it - GAG Films

  38. Redneck
    November 13th, 2007 at 9:26 pm

    GAGFILMS? Isn’t that a Michael Moore and Al Gore joint-venture film company?

  39. Bug
    November 14th, 2007 at 9:24 am

    Well I figured it was too good to be true. I however did not try it. I can tell if you use a lot of disposable camera’s there is a battery in them you can take out. Just be careful not to get shocked! They are in all disposable camera’s and if you think about it you only use the camera for a very short time and then you turn it into the photo lab. That is a lot of wasted batteries! So check it out and keep them. Just don’t get shocked!!!

  40. bloody hell
    November 15th, 2007 at 12:59 am

    32 aa batteries = 48 volts? Might want to brush up on your electronic/electrical theory there pal, we’re not counting change here.

  41. Anonymous
    November 16th, 2007 at 10:21 am

    4 batteries wired in series = 6V
    8 sets of those batteries wired in parallel = 6V still.
    Why is that guy saying 48V?

    Oh I just figured it out the idiot wired them ALL up in series, (Dummy)

  42. Lee T.
    November 17th, 2007 at 12:49 am

    OK, you wastefull earthlings!
    Did it ever occur to you that the green way to go is to purchase rechageable Ni-Cad’s
    and to be sure to recycle all those other batteries to keep them out of our landfills!

  43. Anonymous
    November 21st, 2007 at 12:44 am

    if you guys watch the video, its a 6v lantern battery. go out abd buy that same 6v lantern battery and then see what the results are

  44. Rich
    November 24th, 2007 at 8:55 pm

    I know for a fact it works… Did it myself a few years ago. But don`t think I got that many batteries out of it.

  45. Allyssa
    November 29th, 2007 at 3:48 pm

    Child, don’t try this s–t, I was all down on my knees using utensils like a box cutter, hammer and nails, screwdriver…finally got the d–n thing opened and BAM, the four stupid cylinders. DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME OR MONEY, the battery author should be shot.

  46. Tracy
    November 30th, 2007 at 12:16 am

    I tried a 6 volt Alkaline Lantern battery just like the freakin video said to use(it was in my flashlite,so i didn’t really waste any money)and to my suprise out came 4 D batteries. Oh well, now i can use my other 2 flashlites that take 2 D batteries!

  47. Jason
    December 1st, 2007 at 11:41 pm

    I was pretty dissapointed when I cracked my old lantern battery open and found 4 biga## batteries so I started looking for something to use them in. Just buy a 3 Cell mag light and use two of the big batteries.I tried this and it works just great.

  48. Jason
    December 1st, 2007 at 11:58 pm

    I was pretty d

  49. jgold
    December 4th, 2007 at 8:32 am

    Yeah, we tried it too and to not much to my surprise, it was a hoax. don’t do it.

  50. tim
    December 15th, 2007 at 10:34 pm

    I should have read this first im a fool

  51. Kathy
    December 20th, 2007 at 7:49 am

    You know, I never thought it through, so it seemed great. But you know what they say…if it seems too good to be true…it usually is.

  52. Elliott
    December 28th, 2007 at 1:52 pm

    #47 Uh, yeah, go out and buy a $30+ flashlight just so you can scavenge cells out of the 6v and run the bulb at reduced voltage (3v instead of 4.5v)… smart!

  53. gag reel
    January 1st, 2008 at 7:33 pm

    IT IS A JOKE!!! EDITTEDF TO MAKE IT APPEAR THAT HE ACTUALLY TOOK A BATTERY APART..
    IT’S A GAG!

  54. sure, sure
    January 9th, 2008 at 3:10 am

    ever wonder where the B cell went? there you have it. in 6V lantern batteries, and other similar applications.

    interesting note, the same producer made a movie about finding 1500 AA batteries in a car battery. riiiiight.

    check out the 10 dollar flashlight hack. that’s interesting.

  55. 55.)
    January 9th, 2008 at 9:02 am

    I just read your comments.. I haven’t laughed that hard in a while.. Thanks! you guys are funny, Peace out!!! I can only imagine how hard it was to break into them Batteries…lol

  56. Jenn
    January 10th, 2008 at 12:46 pm

    Just wanted to say I’m one that fell for it. My father in law had an old battery and boy did I feel like an idiot when those 4 batteries fell out! It was good for a laugh at least! Love the comments!!

  57. Ray
    January 13th, 2008 at 4:41 pm

    4 x 1.5 does equal 6.0 volt. The normal AA battery (duracell) is a 2.850 mah battery. Take the MAH rating of the large battery, divide that by 2.850 = number of stacks of 4 each 1.5 volt batteries. 32 batteries total infers that there are 8 stacks of (4 each @ 2.850) = 22.8 MAH battery. I tried finding out the MAH of a lantern battery via google. No joy. Anybody have one that shows the MAH or AH on the side of the battery? Seems like it plausable to this old dude.

  58. ME
    January 23rd, 2008 at 9:53 pm

    For those of you that tried this - i’ll bet you tried to make glow stickks out of Mt Dew, didn’t you

  59. josiah
    January 25th, 2008 at 8:15 pm

    we also took apart the 6 volt battery and found that if you take the 3 D cells out of your mag light (flash light) and insert 2 of the ones from the 6 volt then you now have flashlight powered by giant alien AA batterys . does that make it a pen light.

  60. 6voltz
    February 5th, 2008 at 9:06 am

    These are “F” Cells, a little hint, don’t buy Duracell as they only use “D” Cells and therefore have lower capacity compared to Energizer alkaline (not heavy duty).

  61. Wika
    February 11th, 2008 at 8:35 pm

    Just buy rechargeable batteries one time, and make less waste, save money, and not be manipulated by internet videos.

  62. Anonymous
    February 15th, 2008 at 11:43 am

    The only reason to take a larger battery apart would be to get Lithium-Ion AA rechargeables from it. I found a site and source to do that, but they warn of risk of fire while charging. That is why no Lithium AA rechargables. Not worth the risk.

  63. Electrical Genius
    February 21st, 2008 at 10:08 am

    Hey Bloody Hell,(nice name)
    You need to brush up on YOUR theory pal. If you wire 4 groups of 12 - 1.5 volt batteries in parallel and then wire the 4 groups in series you will end up with 6 volts.

  64. Johnyy
    February 21st, 2008 at 11:55 am

    ahh, this shits a scam.
    But you should check this out. http://www.wisebread.com/the-40-hidden-inside-a-12v-battery

  65. mark
    February 25th, 2008 at 1:23 am

    I hate to start a rush on 12 volt car batteries but…..lmao

    http://www.snotr.com/video/726

  66. Travis
    March 2nd, 2008 at 10:54 am

    You know there are 128 AA Batteries in a 12V

  67. Samantha
    March 3rd, 2008 at 7:40 pm

    I took apart a 6 volt lantern battery and found 4 D cell batteries in it.

  68. dontsy
    March 6th, 2008 at 10:19 am

    We took one apartlast winter…it didnt have 32 aa’s in it…they were aa’s but not that many..maybe half…bought it at Family Dollar

  69. Jose
    March 7th, 2008 at 7:41 pm

    Let’s see AA Batteries are 1.5 volts, so 32 batteries will equal 48V. That kind of voltage
    would burn any kind of flashlight bulb. So instead you
    find 4 1.5 D cell batteries.
    1.5v*4cells=1 6v battery.

  70. Brian
    March 9th, 2008 at 5:16 pm

    Jose,
    Wrong logic.. that would be assuming that they’re all wired in series. Even though this most likely is a hoax, it’s certainly possible to have 32 batteries at 1.5V each, with an end result of 6V. The trade-off is made by wiring four sets of 8 batteries each in parallel, and then wiring each of those four sets to each other in series. So 1.5v*8 in parallel = 1.5v with 8 times the current capacity. 1.5v*4(sets) wired in series = 6v (still with only 8x current capacity
    ). You can wire a million 1.5v batteries together in parallel and it’ll still only put out 1.5v

    You might want to learn a bit more about electricity; it’s cool stuff.

  71. MrKite
    March 11th, 2008 at 4:01 pm

    Yea. What Brian said.

  72. Tuggerofhearts
    March 16th, 2008 at 6:37 pm

    After I saw the video, I went looking for proof, on the internet, not in a 6V battery. Guess what site I first looked at? Yep, this one. I can’t believe anyone would try out some like this video insinuated without looking further into it. Like turning to Snoops.com for so many of those “gossi[ items being sent around. have fun, folks.

  73. mad scientist
    March 17th, 2008 at 2:59 am

    Ummmmm. u take 2 AA 1.5 volt batteries and you put them together and you have 3 volts, etc… so 32 AA’s would not be 6 volts. If there WERE 32 batteries then they wouldn’t last long or work at all since thier voltage would be 6 / 32 which is 0.19 volts. thats not even .2 volts. good luck with that minute of battery power in your toys kids.

  74. Nicki
    March 17th, 2008 at 12:29 pm

    Well, the manufacturer of 6V lantern batteries is sure laughing all the way to the bank on our investigation…wonder if the video was released by a batter company!!

  75. A Man
    March 24th, 2008 at 3:12 am

    Who really cares? Really?

  76. chiguadilla
    March 26th, 2008 at 4:58 pm

    I told about forty people to check that out-so far no one has, they are afraid of things that you open. Like golfballs that may or may not have an exploding center.

  77. Adolf Oliver Bush
    March 27th, 2008 at 2:53 pm

    Dear: Stew Padaso,

    I regret to inform you that I myself will not be trying out your little experiment. Yes, of coarse it crossed my mind and was very excited about gettin drunk as crap this saturday and crackin open the battery. We were going to have a 6V battery party. B.Y.O.B (bring ur own battery) But these stupid people had to burst everyone elses bubbles. No fair.

  78. Stew Padaso
    March 27th, 2008 at 6:10 pm

    I love you Adol Oliver Bush!!!! haha!

  79. Jo Hamm
    April 3rd, 2008 at 7:00 am

    I am a 6 volt battery. There are not 32 AA batteries in me… I have a roller coaster in me. A roller coaster powered by love and sensual tenderness. I hope someone who reads this website comes to me and opens me up to find the honey pot of ecstasy I hold for them. See you all soon. Hopefully very soon.

  80. Amit Chowdhry
    April 3rd, 2008 at 7:59 pm

    You’re crazy, Jo. Who says “honey pot of ecstasy?”

  81. bubba buey
    April 4th, 2008 at 8:35 pm

    Well did anyone find one with AA’S in it?

  82. powercell heavy duty
    April 9th, 2008 at 5:08 pm

    powercell heavy duty is the one that only works

  83. Darryl
    April 14th, 2008 at 8:10 am

    I took a powerdrill and ripped open an electric wallsocket in my home. VOILA! thousands and thousands of AA batteries fell out, and they keep pouring into the room! I realize that the powerlines coming into my house are about as thick as AA’s, but hey, WHO KNEW!?!?!? of course
    ymmv.

  84. James
    April 23rd, 2008 at 7:11 pm

    If you put 4 1.5’s in series and you put 8 of those series circuits in parallel, you come up with a 6v series parallel circuit, with 8 times the amperage available in a 4 cell only series circuit. Complements of my 8th grade Radio Electronics teacher DR. Goff. By the way I’m 40 now.

    Some of you should think before you speak.

  85. livewire
    April 24th, 2008 at 9:30 pm

    Mine had D Y N O M I T E printed on the inside……

    Duh what’s that mean?

  86. eau de battarie acid
    April 25th, 2008 at 11:16 am

    Darryl, darryl, darryl - just think of what your electric bill is going to be this month!!!

  87. BillEKID
    May 13th, 2008 at 9:42 am

    all the companies that make the 6 volt battery would like to thank all the morons for going out and buying this battery and increasing their sales! Give yourselves a round of applause….

  88. Amit Chowdhry
    May 15th, 2008 at 2:11 pm

    Hahaha, well put BillEKid.

  89. guy from GA
    May 15th, 2008 at 8:47 pm

    I believed the 6v video only b/c i have opened 9v batteries and found 4AAA inside each… figured that it could be real…

  90. Geekergirl
    May 27th, 2008 at 7:46 pm

    OMG I have not laughed this hard all year !!!

  91. WOW
    May 27th, 2008 at 9:35 pm

    THINK I’M JUST GONNA CHUNK A FEW OF THOSE IN MY GAS TANK……IT’S GOTTA WORK… RIGHT….. IF ALL THE MATH IS CORRECT…

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