Polaroid Thin Format 6-Volt
P80 and P100 Polapulse Batteries

The Polaroid P100 battery is the customer replaceable version of the battery.  The Polaroid P80 batteries are used either in disposable items, in battery packs or in applications where a technician must change the battery. They can be used in series or in parallel to increase voltage, current or capacity. The P80 battery is supplied mounted on a card with a thin plastic overwrap.

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P100 for Customer Replacement. P80 for Built-In or Powerpak.
The P100 battery is available in a handsome blue wrap as a customer replacement battery in both OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) and retail packs. The P80 batteries are used in Polaroid film packs and are offered only to OEM users.

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Thin Format Gives Design Flexibility
Allows you new design options for battery placement.

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Integrated 6-Volt Battery Simpler to Use
You need only insert or change one thin battery instead of juggling four cylinders with possible wrong insertion. Uses just two contacts instead of eight.

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Quick Battery Change
With the unique Card-In-Slot feature, you can change a battery as quickly and easily as inserting a card into an automatic bank teller.

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Attractive Power-To-Weight and Power-to-Volume At Both Low and High Drains
Performs like a premium alkaline battery at low drain rates, and better than an alkaline at high rates. Weighs less than 1 ounce.

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Unique Vent Prolongs Useful Life to Over Five Years
The small amount of gas formed in all zinc batteries is continuously vented through a membrane permeable only to gas.

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High Reliability, Greater than 99.9%
Every battery receives 200% visual and electrical inspection, first at assembly and again after 60 days of controlled aging.

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Contains No Mercury; Environmentally Safer Than Many Other Batteries
Does not use Cadmium or Lead.  Also, unlike some other batteries, did not explode under testing which simulated customer misuse, including exposure to fire.

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Proven Leak-Resistant In Over One Billion Polaroid Film Packs
Similar batteries have produced no known leak damaged cameras. Has no zinc can to perforate. Contains no strong alkalis.

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Accidental Reversal of Polarity Virtually Impossible
Correct polarity is assured, since these batteries have only two terminals, which are both on the same side of the battery. This advanced contact design eliminates the need for protective diodes.

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Technical Assistance and Designer's Kits Available
A P100 designer's kit containing 5 batteries and a molded prewired battery holder and a P80 designer's kit containing 10 batteries and 10 spring metal contacts are available.

Although not designed as rechargeable batteries, P80's, and P100's have been successfully recharged for many cycles by some customers and are being used in this manner.

Technical Characteristics:

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Typical Technical Characteristics

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Drawings of Polaroid P80 Polapulse Battery

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Drawings of Polaroid P100 Polapulse Battery