2007-01-16 01:32:07 · 12 answers · asked by BTH L 2 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Other - Electronics
Thank you for that question. I have ben sad all day and when I read that I laughed for 5min. Its a great question.
2007-01-16 01:39:36 · answer #1 · answered by Bazano 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
A while ago there used to be a B battery or devices called vaccuum tubes which performed the same functions. In order to operate, tubes required two voltages: a low voltage to operate the "filament", or "heater", which generated heat necessary for the tube to operate, and a high voltage which actually did the work. The low voltage battery in portable radios was called the "A" battery. The high voltage battery was called the "B" battery.
You can't find B batteries anymore because there is no need for them.
2007-01-16 01:37:57 · answer #2 · answered by packeroo 2 · 5⤊ 0⤋
There were both sized A and B batteries but they were made for portable vacuum tube radios and with the advent of the transistor it has made size A and B batteries obsolete.
2007-01-16 01:38:07 · answer #3 · answered by Geoff S 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
There are B sized batteries.
They stopped producing them back when my grandma was hip.
B Batteries = are freakishly large and was the standard battery for radios then. They are 67.5 volts of power.
2007-01-16 01:38:50 · answer #4 · answered by The Impresario 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like a stutter..."Can I have 2 b-batteries, please"? George Carlin asked this same question in 1967...
2007-01-16 01:36:56 · answer #5 · answered by boots 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe you should invent some. You'll never have to work another day in your life!!
2007-01-16 01:34:31 · answer #6 · answered by Sweet! 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
LOL. Good question! This is very true. I never thought of this!
2007-01-16 01:34:48 · answer #7 · answered by bradnmich2003 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I,ve never thought of that, they do C, D, AA, AAA, & 9Volt (Square)
2007-01-16 01:37:55 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Lol that's a good question...never thought about that....
2007-01-16 01:34:51 · answer #9 · answered by Jennifer W 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
To B or not to B? The answer apparently, was "not". ;o)
2007-01-16 01:34:36 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋