John: Are you using rechargable nicads or alkalines?? The reason that I ask is that a set of nicads will never give the light that the alkalines will due to the fact that they do not develop as high a voltage - even when freshly charged. (Nicads produce 1.2V per cell while Alkalines produce 1.5V per cell) That may not seem like a lot of difference - but, there are two of those in your minimag totaling 2.4V or 3.0V and the performance difference between the two in terms of wattage output varies as the SQUARE of the difference. 2.4^2= 5.76 while 3.0^2= 9 A greater than 50% increase. John R. Fortiner Billings, MT. On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 22:18:07 -0400 piano.tech@ns.sympatico.ca (John Ross) writes: > Hi, > I use rechargeables, in my Maglite, so battery life doesn't matter. > Regards, > John M. Ross > > BSimon999@AOL.COM wrote: > > > Thanks for the tip John. > > > > I didn't know about the bulbs. I want lots of light, and if they > eat > > batteries, so be it. > > > > Bill Simon > > Phoenix > > > > xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > John R. Fortiner writes: > > > > << ** And if you want even MORE light - go to Radio Shack and > purchase their > > Krypton bulb that fits the minimag lights. It is a little battery > > hungry, but it sure puts out the light - a lot better than the > bulbs that > > come with the minimag light. Price - seems to me about 2.99 for > one - > > but it basically supercharged the light output.>> > ___________________________________________________________________ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.
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