Aviva users

[Kaylz]

Hey guys, just got my spare Aviva meter from Accu Chek today, just a quick question, I know for the Aviva you get a voucher for batteries rather than the batteries sent to you but I'm just wondering if the vouchers can only be used in certain places to obtain the batteries? Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks 🙂 xx

 

[Sally71]

We have the Accu Chek pump, the handset is the same as the Aviva Expert meter, and they just send us the batteries themselves! I don't know what all the fuss is about sending lithium batteries in the post because it's never stopped us getting them 🙄

 

[ukjohn]

I get the vouchers from Accu Chek for my Aviva batteries, and they are marked for use at Boots Chemists, who supply a card with two batteries in exchange for the voucher.

John

 

[Kaylz]

We have the Accu Chek pump, the handset is the same as the Aviva Expert meter, and they just send us the batteries themselves! I don't know what all the fuss is about sending lithium batteries in the post because it's never stopped us getting them 🙄

The Expert meter uses AAA though xx

 

[Kaylz]

I get the vouchers from Accu Chek for my Aviva batteries, and they are marked for use at Boots Chemists, who supply a card with two batteries in exchange for the voucher.

John

Cheers John, luckily I have a small Boots up the road, that's what my worry was though, that you could only redeem them at certain places and there aren't many places where I live! lol xx

 

[mikeyB]

We have the Accu Chek pump, the handset is the same as the Aviva Expert meter, and they just send us the batteries themselves! I don't know what all the fuss is about sending lithium batteries in the post because it's never stopped us getting them 🙄

Risk of explosion is the reason they give. As you will have noticed, the risk is tiny. My wheelchair was made in China. When it arrived, the box was covered in hazard warnings, but the wheelchair isn’t. (I should be, though).

 

[Sally71]

Ok but you are allowed to send batteries if they are already installed inside a device, how does that make them less likely to explode than just a pack of batteries on its own? And how come I can get AAA lithium batteries with no problem but other sizes (I presume Kaylz needs button batteries) you have to be sent a voucher instead? All seems a bit over-cautious and inconsistent to me!

 

[Kaylz]

@Sally71 I have the Expert as my main meter and like you they send me the AAA's for that no problem but apparently yes for button batteries you need a voucher, I hadn't actually thought that they had managed to send the Aviva out with the battery until you mentioned it!! xx

 

[khskel]

They are being ultra cautious, a battery in a device is less likely to short out than a loose one. You really don't want to be near a lithium battery if it is short circuited.

 

[anniehi]

Accu Chek send out the AAA batteries for their Expert meter but they are not Lithium so they come through the post but for the round flat type of battery they send Boots vouchers.

 

[Sally71]

They say on them that they are lithium, why would it say that if they are not, certainly they last 3 times longer than Duracell!

In which case I still don't see why lithium button batteries are any more likely to blow up than these if they are properly packaged, I guess I'll never understand

(The pic is an AA one for my daughter's pump, we get the AAAs as well for the meter and they all look the same and are delivered together)