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Hearing Aid Batteries

Eveready E400 Mercury Hearing Aid Battery

The Eveready E400 1.4 volt mercury battery was manufactured by the Union Carbide Corp of New York, NY for behind-the-ear hearing aids from the mid 1950s? until hearing aids standardized on 4 basic sizes of batteries around 1980 or so.

This battery weighed less than 1 g and measured 0.455" in diameter by 0.135" high. It had a capacity of 75 mAh.

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Top view of the Eveready E400 mercury battery showing the positive terminal.

Patent number 2542575 was filed in 1946 and issued in 1951.
 

 

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Bottom view of the Eveready E400 mercury battery. The bottom and sides comprised the negative terminal of the battery.


 

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The Eveready E400 mercury batteries were sold in blister paks of 6 batteries each.

It seems the E400 battery was a newer version of the older E400E battery, but they appear to be identical from the outside and in function.

These batteries probably date from the 1970s.
 

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Bottom view of the Eveready E400 mercury battery pak.


 

 


 

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