Whew, It's not just me. I got pretty lax about rotating batteries, checking the charge on them, not keeping the same pairs together. Basically everything you could do wrong, I did it. Got to where my Pila started acting funny when I'd put my batteries in, and the batteries weren't charging. So I checked the charges on the batteries. OMG, most metered out between 1.5-1.7v and 1 actually metered at .9v

. Hell, no wonder the Pila was "acting funny". I managed to salvage 1 pair that metered out at 2.5v and sent the other 3 pairs to the trash. I ordered 3 new sets from rtd and when they get here the salvaged pair is going to the trash too. Yeah, I really need to do a better job monitoring them.