My source of free stackmat batterys

[Kenneth]

I don't know about other countries and the solutions you have but I guess it is about as in Sweden:

In areas where there are blocks of houses, like the one I live in, there is a small house in the parking lot (or in the basement of one of the hoses or something) where you trash things. Not the daily garbage like packages, cans and old food but stuff like broken furniture, used car parts or whatever. In this house there is always a box for used electronics, like old cell phones and most important, old PC's!

On the motherboards of the old PC's there is a battery that is there to keep the BIOS settings in memory when it's turned off and that battery is most often still there. These batterys are of the same type as the ones in the stackmat timers.

I just went there and found two perfectly working batterys, enough for like half a year of speedcubing

 

[cookingfat]

or just go to poundland and get a full sheet of cell batteries.

it's good you found some for free though.

 

[Tox|k]

Or ebay $10 gets me enough to last a decade.

 

[MichaelErskine]

Here in the UK a single CR2032 battery typically costs about £1.50 but at the moment at Aldi stores one can pick up a set of 4 reflective strips with flashing LED lights for £3.99, each of which has a shiny new CR2032

...plus 4 LEDs, a flasher unit, a tiny pushbutton switch, enough reflective material to tile one side of a 3x3x3 plus a bonus bit of velcro!

 

[Athefre]

Or ebay $10 gets me enough to last a decade.

I was going to order some from ebay yesterday but I was worried the batteries wouldn't work.

 

[Tox|k]

Or ebay $10 gets me enough to last a decade.

I was going to order some from ebay yesterday but I was worried the batteries wouldn't work.

I order all my watch/button cell batteries from ebay. Sure, they don't last quite as long as the name brands like duracell or energizer, but the fact that they cost about a tenth of what the name brands do means I'm actually getting much more wattage per dollar.

 

[Kenneth]

The ones at the motherboards are almost always name brands like Maxell or Duracell. The closest place where I can by CR2032 batterys is the local gas station and they got Duracell for the prize of around $4 (30 Swedish crowns). But if I go In to town there is a hardware store where there are 10 packs of a noname brand that is 50 Swedish crowns!! (less than $7)

 

[Athefre]

The ones at the motherboards are almost always name brands like Maxell or Duracell. The closest place where I can by CR2032 batterys is the local gas station and they got Duracell for the prize of around $4 (30 Swedish crowns). But if I go In to town there is a hardware store where there are 10 packs of a noname brand that is 50 Swedish crowns!! (less than $7)

I'm going to have to find a junk place like you found because my Stackmat quit working a couple of months ago. And my PayPal account is now empty.

 

[AvGalen]

If anyone knows how to get cheap batteries for the tournament displays, please post it here or contact the WCA. They seem to be extremely expensive

 

[rjohnson_8ball]

... around $4 (30 Swedish crowns).

Are your Swedish crowns the same as our Burger King crowns?

 

[Joël]

http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.13325

These also have the batteries in them, and they are shipped for free .