{"id":3773,"date":"2017-10-09T00:35:26","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T07:35:26","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-10-22T10:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T17:28:08","slug":"3773","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/3773","title":{"rendered":"How to tell the age of a LabQuest battery."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can tell the battery manufacture date by looking at the 4-digit number on the upper left of the battery label. The number is listed as Week-Year (WWYY), so &#8220;3213&#8221; was manufactured in week #32 of the year 2013.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"border aligncenter\" src=\"\/files\/til\/images\/3773-battery_date_code.jpg\" alt=\"3773-battery_date_code.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Batteries are a consumable and carry a 1-year warranty from the date of purchase. The manufacture date printed on the battery and the purchase \/ shipping date may not be the same. <\/p>\n<p>Purchase replacement batteries: <a href=\"\/product\/labquest-2-and-labquest-stream-battery\/\">LabQuest&reg; 2, LabQuest Stream\u2122, and Go Direct SpectroVis Plus Battery<\/a> (<nobr>LQ2-BAT<\/nobr>) or <a href=\"\/product\/labquest-3-battery\/\">LabQuest&reg; 3 Battery<\/a> (<nobr>LQ3-BAT<\/nobr>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/til\/2741\/\">LabQuest 2 Battery Troubleshooting and FAQs<\/a><br \/><a href=\"\/til\/8725\/\">LabQuest 3 battery does not charge.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>RELATED:<br \/><a href=\"\/til\/15400\/\">How old is my LabQuest 2?<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can tell the battery manufacture date by looking at the 4-digit number on the upper left of the battery label. The number is listed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3792,421,4612,6366,2655,6367,3793,6368,6369],"class_list":["post-3773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-age","tag-battery","tag-buy","tag-date-code-lot-lots-code","tag-lq2-bat","tag-manufacture-date-dating","tag-old","tag-when-made","tag-year-made"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}