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Julia Evans replaces 10-year-old bike light battery via makerspace soldering

Commenters offer battery identification alternatives and cautions

Hacker News users highlighted non-LLM methods for identifying batteries (button cell nomenclature standards, DigiKey search), cautioned about counterfeit batteries from AliExpress, and suggested matching chemistry and capacity matters more than exact model numbers.

“I wouldn't worry about matching the exact model number of the battery. Instead, it's more important to get roughly the same chemistry and a capacity equal or maybe a touch greater.”

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