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Bottlehead Kits => Legacy Kit Products => Quickie => Topic started by: corndog71 on February 14, 2012, 05:15:09 AM
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A little pricey but much better capacity than your typical D battery.
http://amzn.com/B0002LR50A (http://amzn.com/B0002LR50A)
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Maha batteries, the ones linked, were highly recommended to me over on AK when I was having fits with the AA Nimh batteries in my Cannon camera.
Good batteries are worth the price and peace of mind.
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I use 2200mah NMH AA's. Just put AA holders instead of the 'D's'. AA's are a couple bucks a pop. I charge them about every 5 hours of use to keep the volts up there close to 1.4v each as possible. I also run higher voltage (45-50v Lipo4). Love that Quickie!
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Rechargeable Batteries in series don't like filament/ resistive loads. One of the batteries can get reversed biased and that causes bad things to happen.
The garden solar lights you buy drive a LED. The LED stops drawing current before the batteries get badly damaged.
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Question for you guys: Before finding the above mentioned batteries I was considering paralleling a pair of D batteries or alternatively several lithium AA batteries just so I could go a little longer between battery changes. Would that be a problem with the filament circuit?
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I looked at lithium AA and they dont come in 1.5v. Thats why I went with NMH.
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I looked at lithium AA and they dont come in 1.5v. Thats why I went with NMH.
That's not right. I have some Energizer AA Ultimate Lithium. It says on the label 1.5V and it measured 1.7V.
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not rechargeable though!
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Eric,
I was wondering when you posted that. All others had been rechargeable and lithium isn't rechargeable, that I know of.
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There are multiple battery chemistries based on lithium with different voltages and some are rechargeable, some not.
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Thanks!