Re: [Paddlewise] NiMH vs non-recharhgeables

the chief benefit of
> rechargeable alkaline cells is that they have a very low self-discharge
> rate rather than a high capacity, so I'm not surprised you got no better
> results with them. I don't use mine much any more, and when the last one
> dies, I'm going to donate the charger to Goodwill.

Oh, I didn't expect those rechargeable alcalines to be better than NiMh -
but they almost were :-) ...

I was more upset with meager 24 hours vs claimed 110 hours. Still need to
test it on non-recahrgeablse, but it will be longer than with 1000 mah
rechargeables - it should be, always is. may be not 110, but around 40 hours
on medium  beam, to my (increasingly poor) memory.

Interesting info from
http://www.backpackgeartest.org/reviews/Lighting/Headlamps%20-%20LED/Princet
on%20Tec%20%20Aurora%20LED%20Headlamp/Owner%20Review%20by%20Rick%20Dreher/
Nobody of backpackers crowd bothered to measure battery life and all but one
reviewers say something like "don't know how long, but still works after 20
trips". (Weekend trips with 1 hour of use? Or weeklong trips? God knows)...
But one guy, referring to testing by REI, says:
"REI - which does its own product testing - gives the following Aurora
battery life specifications (in hours): at 70 deg. F: 17:32 on high, 50:41
on low". Well, if this it's 17.5 hours on high beam and 51 hours on low,
then my recollection of around 40 hours on medium is correct (34 hours, if
you simply average 2 numbers, which is a rough estimate, as "medium" beam
doesn't necessarily take 1/2 current of the high beam).  Anyway, with 34
hours on non-rechargeables (I assume - still can't find this REI data) 24
hours on rechargeable AND after 10 days of trip sounds pretty normal.
Doesn't sound normal, of course, compared to the alleged 110 hours (!!!)
from the manufacturer.
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