MAGLITE Fiberoptic pinblock inspection

[John Ross]

Hi John,
I should have mentioned, what you said in my reply, as my information was
incomplete without that info.
I am using alkaline.
Regards,
John M. Ross

John R Fortiner wrote:

> 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.>>
> >
>
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