r/AAMasterRace

869 archived posts · Mar 2019 – Sep 2026

r/AAMasterRace: Since 1907, 98% market domination. AA batteries are the best thing ever.

r/AAMasterRace

Future-proof your life. If you use only AA batteries and you want 3 spares, you only need 3 spares. With 5 different batteries, you need 15 spares plus chargers. With AA you can carry it all in your pocket. AA-compatible devices can include AAA, AAAA, C, D, F, 14500, 18650, 21700, 26650, 32600, 32650, etc. Right to repair was first lost from tolerating proprietary batteries, pay per charge, and self-destruct explosions. To regain right to repair, you need the right to put in standard batteries.

Created Mar 31, 2019

2.7KMembers (last snapshot)

869Archived posts

About this subreddit

Rules

There are no generic brands with the same specifications as Eneloop. If it's not the same, then it's not the same.
Do not claim a generic brand is Eneloop without 100% matching official specifications to prove it. Company shills are a likely origin of false rumors being repeated by useful idiots. We can't always differentiate malicious shills from innocent idiots, but this rule forces them all to stick to the facts, and prevents them from using ignorance as an excuse for spreading misinformation.
Modern standard Eneloop is the only permitted standard for claiming a generic brand is Eneloop. Only standard Eneloop is officially called "Eneloop". Eneloop Pro, Eneloop Lite, etc are different. Obsolete Eneloop and any other substandard Eneloop are not permitted standards when claiming a generic brand is the same as "Eneloop".

Handy links for this subreddit

Activism links

Be a helpful representative of the AA Master Race. Answer questions, share information, give advice, and say "welcome" to those who convert to the AA Master Race.

You can use Feed Notifier for timely notifications of new activity on RSS feeds. You can also chat about AA batteries in Freenode ##prepping and ##flashlight on the Freenode IRC network. Be sure to mention you joined from Reddit.

Official goals

Make AA-compatible batteries part of the "right to repair" conversation. 1 mention of AA or AA-compatible batteries with "right to repair" in independent organizational, political, or journalistic sources.
See the creation of the first AA-to-18650 adapter to make 18650's officially AA-compatible. Pics or it didn't happen.
~~Grow to 1000 members within 18 months of founding.~~ DONE!

AA formula for success

What kind of devices support AA battery power? Well-designed, efficient ones. AA batteries are a repeating pattern for successful devices in the history of technology. That's why "the first successful" and "most popular" devices are always engineered to be powered by AA batteries:

[Nintendo's Game Boy Turns 30 Years Old - The secret of its success is AA batteries : r/AAMasterRace](https://redd.it/bgp9g8)
[Here’s how Radio Shack sold its breakthrough TRS-80 Model 100 in 1983 - AA batteries made the world's first successful laptop : r/AAMasterRace](https://redd.it/bqs00s)
[Chilean engineer Ricardo Salaverry chose AA batteries for the world's most popular pocket camera system - This is the story behind the design's success : r/electronics](https://redd.it/by3s3p)[*](https://old.reddit.com/duplicates/by3ied)
[Efficient use of AA batteries strongly correlated with success in the history of handheld gaming console generations : r/AAMasterRace](https://redd.it/byhdgo)
[The Sony Walkman turns 40 years old today - AA batteries powered the world's first successful portable music player : r/AAMasterRace](https://redd.it/c8m89x)

AA battery compatibility leads to portability, and together they lead to greater capability combined with lower cost - a formula for success. If you want to climb a mountain, you have go up. No other direction leads to the top. It's a simple formula that keeps succeeding, over and over and over again.

In other words, if you're not sticking to a successful formula, you're less likely to be successful. AA batteries are the Master Race because they're successful.

The history of r/AAMasterRace

2019-03-27: Recognition of a need.
2019-03-30: 1 member.
2019-05-31: 100 members.
2019-06-08: 200 members.
2019-06-09: 300 members.
2019-06-13: 400 members.
2019-06-22: 500 members.
2019-08-08: 1000 members *.
2021-01-03: 1700 members.

Jargon glossary

AA-compatible battery: Any non-AA battery that can fit AA devices using adapters, spacers, dummy cells, and/or DC-to-DC voltage conversion.
AA-compatible device: Any non-AA device that can accept AA batteries using adapters, spacers, dummy cells, and/or DC-to-DC voltage conversion.
Non-replaceable battery (NRB): Any battery that causes failure of the device when the battery requires replacement, to eliminate the right-to-repair and force repurchases of new devices on a controlled schedule.
Peasant: One who goes about their little lives unaware of the glorious glory of AA batteries.
Peasantry: Groups of peasants, the strange behavior of peasants, or their consequences.
Right to repair: Rights lost when consumers started tolerating proprietary batteries. Then proprietary NRB's. Then disposable devices. Then pre-paid charging. Then pay per charge.

Our friends

r/GreatFilter

Master Race? WTF?

Everyone can agree the notion of a "master race" deserves mockery at every opportunity. Mocking terrible things takes away their power. Don't worry, AA batteries are inanimate objects, and they're not really trying to take over the world. Master races of lifeless objects are a common humorous internet meme, started by r/pcmasterrace in 2001.

More info:

The Great Dictator Movie Review (1940) | Roger Ebert, an early example of mockery.
Jackie (dog) - Wikipedia, 1933, an even earlier example of mockery.
r/pcmasterrace History
[PC Gamer: Let’s stop calling ourselves the “PC Master Race” : r/Gaming4Gamers](https://redd.it/2sgf7l)
[The "Pc Gamer" situation - Concern trolling and the PC Master Race. Our response to an issue that shouldn't be an issue at all. : r/pcmasterrace](https://redd.it/2smywt)

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