Flashlight testing day 1
Oct. 8th, 2008 07:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johnridleyRode in today with the brightest battery, the 3.7v LiIon single cell. Light set on "high" - Brightness was great, but it went out at about 28 minutes. I could turn it back on but it went back out in about another minute. I put it on Medium and it lasted the 8 minutes in to work.
Since medium power is probably no brighter than high with 2x AA NiMH, I'll probably try the AA cells next.
In the end I may just use this as a backup, at least as long as my HID continues to work. The HID has hours of runtime, so I only have to bother charging it once a week or so, and that convenience counts for a lot.
[EDIT] - if nothing else, this flashlight is useful for reusing old batteries - I just dropped a mostly-dead single AA cell from the battery recycle bin in it, and it's been burning fairly brightly for 20 minutes already.
Since medium power is probably no brighter than high with 2x AA NiMH, I'll probably try the AA cells next.
In the end I may just use this as a backup, at least as long as my HID continues to work. The HID has hours of runtime, so I only have to bother charging it once a week or so, and that convenience counts for a lot.
[EDIT] - if nothing else, this flashlight is useful for reusing old batteries - I just dropped a mostly-dead single AA cell from the battery recycle bin in it, and it's been burning fairly brightly for 20 minutes already.
