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Authentic 1990s Battery Charge Detection
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Authentic 1990s Battery Charge Detection

Description
By popular demand this mod Implements a more historically accurate approach to determining which of your batteries are charged.



Frequently Questioned Answers

How do I keep track of which battery is which once I've tested them?

That's the neat part: you don't. You put all the batteries that aren't completely dead into your miscellaneous junk drawer and when you need a replacement battery you keep trying them until you find one with enough charge. Then you put the others back in the drawer because they're still good enough for the TV remote.

Is that really how you managed batteries in the 1990s?

Yep. Unless you paid extra for the fancy Duracell ones with a built in test strip that required you to squeeze the battery hard enough to cause muscle strain so you could waste half the stored energy slowly lighting up a green strip that gave a vague approximation of the battery's charge.

No, I meant did you really just throw all the half-used batteries in a drawer?

They were too expensive to just throw out when they would still work in low-power items! As anyone trapped in a dark building frantically trying to get their torch going again while zombies bang on the door knows, a mostly-dead battery is vastly better than no battery at all.


Workshop ID: 3410973219
Mod ID: NepBatteryLicker
27 Comments
Leahi84 30 Sep @ 10:44pm 
Yup. This was totally a thing in the 90s. Did that myself as a kid and teen.
Vega 16 Sep @ 10:19am 
This was absolutely a 70s, 80s and 90s thing. Even in the 2000s. It wasn't until battery readers were more widespread that this practice mostly faded into obscurity. And then even those readers became obscure, once rechargeable batteries became so widespread
GONZIEBONZE 9 Sep @ 11:35am 
Ummm I dont thinks that was a 90s thing
BULLETTIMEBOOM 30 Aug @ 10:29am 
ummm, why would i play tetris of it? when it is preferable to do otherwise? it reads off i do so of it that way. and she even says i can do that.:giantsword:
Kefi 7 Jul @ 10:05pm 
пенис
:aos2kyoko:
Carefully_Chillin 5 Jul @ 11:31am 
hell yeah, you guys ever lick those big square ones before? funny as hell
Guard1211 17 May @ 5:07pm 
holy unc @flareon the floof
flareon the floof 13 Apr @ 4:24pm 
subscribed for 90s nostalgia, kids these days just dont know

zomboid is making me feel old and i accept my fate, ill live out my 90s dreams in zomboid from now on
King George, The Third. 10 Mar @ 1:24pm 
i always liked the taste of battery's
Vampmeris 8 Mar @ 9:53pm 
but what about the also authentic charging trick of rubbing an end of a battery on your pants quickly several times to get like 4 minutes of charge back into it so you can play another short game of tetris before school?