Speaking of "dead" remote batteries..

I've been having some trouble recently with remotes failing to work, or working only intermittently, even with new batteries.

Turns out the spring contact for the bottom side of the battery is losing it's "spring" in my remotes.. so I've stuffed a small wad of paper under that spring contact and then reinserted the battery. Seems to fix it in all three remotes here that had the problem.

Cheers