What's that powdery, crystallized stuff inside your battery case? Classic battery corrosion. While it can be a frustrating and potentially dangerous matter to resolve, it isn't usually hard to clean ...

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Corroded battery terminals are one of those small problems that quietly turn into big headaches, […] ...

While modern power systems in personal electronics and larger devices have been gradually moving toward rechargeable frameworks in the interest of sustainability, there's still a lot of disposable ...

Have you ever gone to use a mouse, camera or remote control that's been sitting around for a while, only to find the batteries and their compartment covered in a white-ish crusty residue? That crust ...

If you've got a car that you love and care about, you've probably spent a good amount of time keeping the inside and outside of it pretty clean and respectable, right? Do you also pay much attention ...

As you may know, we’re rather big fans of building things here at Hackaday. But we’re also quite partial to repairing things which might otherwise end up in a landfill. Especially when those things ...

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Q: My 2020 Toyota Sienna has a significant amount of corrosion on the positive battery post and absolutely nothing on the negative post. What causes this and is it problematic? Can it be stopped? — ...