Originally Posted by
daniell
I need to buy a quantity of the above battery. I will use it from replacing motherboard CMOS batteries to a few cyclometers. Should I cheap out on unknown brands or stick with the name brands, and pay considerably more?
I probably use a dozen CR2032 batteries a year, I have not found any significant difference between cheap no-name brands and the more expensive ones. That said, when I change a battery in my heart rate monitor or blood sugar meter, it is usually a 2 minute endeavor to clean the contacts and put in the new one. On a bike computer, add another 5 to 10 minutes for me to look up my latest data on odometer readings and wheel circumference data for that bike, and resetting all the data in the computer.
If it was going to be inside something more complicated to replace, I would spend more. I usually replace my own watch batteries and I pay more for those batteries because it might take a half hour to replace a battery. I do not know if they are better but I do that anyway.