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.>> > > > > ___________________________________________________________________ > 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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