Fighting with batteries: Difficult to find where to insert the battery

This is probably one of the more interesting and somewhat frustrating challenges for me: figuring out where to insert the batteries. 

In most cases it is obvious to me.  I use my sense of touch to help me locate the battery compartment but I can tell you that there are definitely times when, because of a very smooth surface, it is not easy.

Once I have located the compartment chamber, the rest is very easy.  What I need to remember is to take my time. More haste only leads to less speed. So less haste can only lead to faster results.

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Finding ways: Dealing with the batteries

So, this is how I deal with my batteries, and in order to ensure that I change them regularly I do so whenever the time changes.  In this way I am able to ensure that they do not run out on me.

I have learned how to put them in based on ensuring that I put the smooth end of the battery against the point in the back of whatever I am changing. I push down slightly to ensure that they are all in place and then I slide home the cover. It works.

I make sure to safely dispose of the old batteries thus doing my bit to ensure that I am protecting the environment.

This technique has worked for me for the most part.

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Overcoming a challenge: My smoke detector

She was so very good while she lasted, that is, my smoke detector. But when she finally died it was quite a challenge to replace her.

I knew that she was going when she started to beep intermittently.  Then I had to ask my Super to help me dismantle her because I was unable to remove her cover in order to remove the batteries.

After this was done my Super told me that my smoke detector was no longer able to work because it was written on the back that once the battery was removed the smoke detector was no longer operable.

So you see, I would never have known this because of being vision-impaired and accordingly I could not have known because of not being able to see this text.

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Nerve racking: When my iPhone went dead

I thought that I had done everything right before going to bed that evening. I dutifully plugged in my iPhone, made sure that it was well plugged in, and then I went off to bed.

When I awoke the next morning I reached for my trusted iPhone and pressed the button to turn it on.  Nothing, no sound, no response!

Of course, I began to panic.  What had happened?  Was my poor little iPhone dead for good?  I rebooted it twice and still no response.  I took it to another outlet and plugged it in and still no response.

I had to hurry to get my things together because I had to be at a meeting in the next half hour.  I gingerly placed my dead iPhone in its little case, showered quickly, dressed and packed my stuff hurriedly, and then I rushed out of my room and ran towards the elevator.

I made it to my meeting and had a few minutes to ask one of my colleagues to take a look at my iPhone.  Bingo!  The battery had run down and it was all because of the fact that although I had plugged in my iPhone all right, the outlet had not been emitting any electricity because the control switch in my room had been turned off.

This switch was located somewhere on a wall and I never knew this and with not enough vision to see lights or anything else, that was the problem.

All in a day's journey.

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Dealing with Batteries

I often get asked how I deal with batteries and here is my response.

There are a few things for me to deal with when interacting with batteries:

First, I need to know the size of the batteries needed.

Second, I need to know how many batteries are needed.

Third and most important of all, I need to know which way to insert my batteries. 

 

Through experience, I can normally tell which size of battery is needed for whatever I am working with.  Most times

For me it is either AA (double a) or AAA (triple A) size batteries or in some cases it is the good old C battery or the larger one.  However, I am sometimes fooled between determining whether or not it is a triple a battery or one of those little round batteries.

 

The number of batteries needed usually depends on the number of slots within the battery compartment.  However, in the case of those little round batteries, it is sometimes difficult to tell how many are needed.

 

The most difficult part in dealing with batteries is to determine how to insert them but once you get the hang of the technique it is not too difficult.  I insert the back of the battery, the end that does not have the raised bump, against the spring that is jutting out in each of the slots inside of the battery compartment.  In most cases, there is usually more than one slot and the batteries usually need to be inserted in opposite directions.  Example; if you have three slots, then the first slot would have the spring on one side and the second slot would have the spring on the opposite side and so on.  For little round batteries, it is a bit different knowing how many are needed.

 

How do I know that batteries have been inserted correctly?  Simple!  If I have done it the right way then things work when I flip the switch and if I haven't, then it does not.  Now that I am unable to see clearly, I can't really tell readily when a light is on so I put my hand close to the screen or light bulb to see if it is warm.  Truth be told however, batteries only work if you have inserted them correctly and if the device works after you have changed batteries.  My most difficult task I think is when I deal with clocks.  I sometimes need sighted assistance to tell me if the hands are moving and if I am unable to remove the face of the clock to feel the hands.  This trick however does not work for digital clocks and other digital devices.

 

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