Flashlight testing, supplemental
Oct. 20th, 2008 06:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johnridleyI've got this huge pile of AA alkalines salvaged from the battery recycling at work. Honestly, dozens of them. Fully 1/3 of the batteries that go in there still have significant life left in them.
I separate into 3 piles and keep the first two:
- very good to apparently new
- still pretty good
- not that good to stone dead
I used to keep ones less good than that, they're still good enough to run lots of stuff, but it got to the point where the pickings were so good I had to start throwing something out.
Anyway, I took some "still pretty good" ones, the lowest ones I keep, and put them in the flashlight on my bike. I used it for two days as my headlight for my 40 minute commute. It lasted about 1.75 days; the last 2 miles of my commute I had to turn the main headlight back on.
At least it gives me a way to use these batteries up. Of course, if I use them all winter I'll wind up saving about 50 cents worth of electricity, so it's hardly worth my time, really.
I separate into 3 piles and keep the first two:
- very good to apparently new
- still pretty good
- not that good to stone dead
I used to keep ones less good than that, they're still good enough to run lots of stuff, but it got to the point where the pickings were so good I had to start throwing something out.
Anyway, I took some "still pretty good" ones, the lowest ones I keep, and put them in the flashlight on my bike. I used it for two days as my headlight for my 40 minute commute. It lasted about 1.75 days; the last 2 miles of my commute I had to turn the main headlight back on.
At least it gives me a way to use these batteries up. Of course, if I use them all winter I'll wind up saving about 50 cents worth of electricity, so it's hardly worth my time, really.
