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Thanks for all the Great information. Some of your searches must have worked much better than my Google search. Now I can continue to get better organized and maybe this post will help someone else along the way.

If you need to store a single D battery, a common plastic pill bottle with a reversible lid works well and is water proof..

Does anyone EDC batteries on body? In your pants pockets or what not is what I'm asking. I don't really want to containerize anything else for on-body carry (I'm wondering if I've got too much now) but I feel somewhat exposed because right now I don't carry any extra batteries. Would vacuum packing batteries work? Keep the moisture off of them and keep them from contacting each other. Or are there considerations I've missed?

Do you carry just enough to reload the EDC tools you carry, or more? Remember, I'm thinking on-body. I use AA and AAA mostly.

Thoughts?

right now I carry my extra batteries in my bug out bag battery boxes I picked up from organize-everything.com.

http://organizeeverything.mercadosearch.com/Search.aspx?free_text=battery%20holder


I also have this nylon case for a few batteries to carry on my person, although I haven't started carrying them daily yet because I have my bug out bag with me at work.

http://www.greenbatteries.com/nylbatwal.html

My "on body" EDC lights are :
- SF 6P (sheath on belt, back right))
- Nuwai Q3 (in a pouch on my belt, front left)
- one white and one red Photon III (dangling from the pouch)

So I EDC in my belt pouch :
- 2 x CR123,
- 2 x CR2016,
- 1 x CR2032

I EDC 1-Lithium AAA on my key chain kit for my Peak LED. AAA battery fits perfectly in a lenght of #8 wire heat shrink tube.

I use a G2 as a spares carrier for my A2 and/or E1L.

I carry spare batteries in my pants pocket in Omniseal waterproof holders. These are basically super heavy duty ziplocks intended for ID cards or the like. It will comfortably carry six 123A type batteries. AA batteries will also fit in here - I used to carry a combo of batteries in one of these, but have standardized my lights on the 123A form factor.

These little guys are nice and cheap too. I figure each one lasts me six months before they start to crack a bit at the top. At about $1 each, this works out fine. I've tried various other "normal" Ziplock type bags, and none will hold up to pocket wear.

I have also tried vaccum packing, and that doesn't wear well either.

Here is an outdated picture of my EDC which shows batteries in an Omniseal bag. My current EDC still includes the batteries and the Sebenza, but I've converged the two flashlights in the picture into one HDS EDC U85 light with a 2x123A battery pack and dropped the little multitool (but picked up a Leatherman Juice Xe6 in my EDC bag).

-john

FoodSaver Vacuum Packer. I vacuum pack a "set" of batteries together for each device. Waterproof, nonconductive, won't rattle, etc.
But then, as I've disclosed in other threads... I'd vacuum pack air if given a chance. I use my FoodSaver for so much of my kit.