seicitizitch wrote:Okay, still confused here
In the picture below you see a recent Renata battery selector.
The left row are the low drain batteries (see icons on the selector), the right row are the high drain batteries.
I put two Seiko cells on each representative row for each battery (301 and 389)
Here we see that the SR43SW is low drain and that the SR1130W is high drain
Right now I tend to stick to this information as It's impossible Renate has it wrong, or -even worse ;) - Seiko has it wrong
Nevertheless I still read opposite info inline (and in this thread)
Maybe you guys can shed a new light on this.
I think you misunderstood my post.
"S" does _only_ stand for sodium hydroxide, it _does not_ tell whether the battery is high or low drain
"P" does _only_ stand for potassium hydroxide, it _does not_ tell whether the battery is high or low drain
"W" does _only_ stand for IEC60086-3 compliance. Again, it _does not_ tell whether the battery is high or low drain
high vs. low drain is *only* marked either by the battery number (i.e. a cell with a size of 11.6×3.1mm would be either a 390 = low drain, or a 389 = high drain), or by HD/(LD) in case there's only one number available for a given size.
For your two batteries it means:
SR43SW (301): 301 = low drain. If it was a high drain, it would be marked (386). In addition it has a sodium hydroxide electrolyte (*S*W) and it's IEC60086-3 compliant (S*W*)
SR1130W (389): 389 = high drain. If it was a low drain, it would be marked (390). In addition it has an organic electrolyte (no S or P before the *W*, which again means it's IEC60086-3 compliant)