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Longest Lasting Alkaline Batteries for the Wii

When you're right in the middle of making your best shot in Tiger Wood's PGA Tour Nintendo Wii game and your hand-held controller battery dies, no doubt your teeth could grind glass. Avoid this next time by finding the longest-lasting alkaline batteries to power your Wii's controller, which requires two "AA" batteries. Alkaline batteries are one of the options available to you when it comes to powering the Wii controller that puts you in the middle of the action. All batteries reviewed have a cut-off voltage of 0.8 watts and tested at a rate of 10 ohms.

Sanyo
- To get the longest play out of your Wii controller, ZBattery.com recommends the Sanyo battery. It uses an average of 2.20 ampere hours and 2.53 watt hours.
Motorola
- The Motorola battery follows close behind with an average of 2.23 hours and 2.53 watt hours.
Samsung
- The Samsung battery uses an average of 2.31 hours and 2.63 watt hours. It places third in performance according to ZBattery.com
GP
- The fourth best battery tested, GP, used an average of 2.67 watt hours and 2.34 hours.
Maxell
- Maxell had an average of 2.42 hours and 2.82 watt hours as the fifth-best model in this group.
Energizer
- The Energizer, not so energized in the ZBattery.com ratings, tested sixth overall with an average use of 2.50 hours and 2.87 watt hours.
Energizer Industrial
- Second behind its counterpart and seventh on the list, the Energizer Industrial offers an average of 2.50 am hours and 2.89 watt hours when powering your Wii gaming experience.
Sony
- Sony's battery uses an average of 2.51 hours and 2.92 watt hours when plugged into your remote.
Duracell
- Duracell uses an average of 2.48 hours and 2.94 watt hours as the second-worst battery alternative for your remote.
Universal
- The Universal battery came in last place with an average of 2.55 hours and 2.96 watt hours.

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