Flashlight battries?

[braggscowboy]

I was cleaning out my wood stove awhile back and had my flashlight out using it and laid it down and I heard it fall, but cannot hear well and I thought it fell on the floor and I looked everywhre. It was a good LED light bulg that magnifies. My grandson and I were checking the deer feeder and where I had emptied the ashes he found my flashlight, it had fallen in the bucket. It had been run over by pickup or rhino and steped on by horse. It was cover in ashes and was wet, but still burning. It had been nine days! I was using Duracell battries and they were not fresh. Good advertisment for Duracell. Anyone have a favorited brand of battery that works better than this?

[Harry Chickpea]

That IS good. I have a modified booklight that will last for much longer, but only because it is modified and uses much bigger batteries than intended. Never heard of a flashlight doing as good as what you describe. Guess I'll try some of those Duracells out.

[CarolT]

LED bulbs use much less power so batteries last much longer. That said, I used to do a job that required using batteries in machines. Every month we got either Duracell, Energizer or Rayovac. Did this job for years. Does it say something that I will only buy Duracell unless there's been a tornado and I have no choice?

[jwal10]

I had 3 small LED lights in my chicken house and the solar got disconnected and they ran a long time on the little AAA Duracell batteries that came in them....James

[HermitJohn]

LED flashlights will stay lit if batteries have least bit umph left in them. However they have sort of a half life where though they are still lit, they dont provide enough light to be useful for anything.

[YoYoDog]

I’ve been away from this site for a while so I don’t know
how much has been mentioned about eneloop batteries.

http://www.stefanv.com/electronics/sanyo_eneloop.html

I don’t have any vested interest in this company but
I do believe in reliable preps and these do it for me.

Batteries tend to die the longer they lay on the shelf.
These don't. Without going into boring details these
are what I feel are the best.

Long shelf life, the ability to recharge many times,
and being sold already pre-charged are among the
things that sold me on them.

The common size they make are AA. If you want bigger
they sell “shells” in C and D that you insert the AA’s
into.

Do some reading they may be worth your while.

JMHO,
Dan

[kan-green]

I have started to switching all our flashlights and lanterns to led and buy only rechargeable batteries now. I wasn't sure about the extra expense of lithium batteries but after buying some for our monitor/ defibrillators and the new lithium batteries last several days compared to every few calls on the alkaline I am sold! As they say, you get what you pay for.

[Fat Charlie]

I think it's a better ad for LEDs than anything else. Back when I really burned through batteries I got a few sets of Ni-MH for about $20 a four pack. They were excellent and more than paid for themselves. Now that I don't need batteries for a camera and a radio I don't need so many batteries, and with LEDs what few batteries I need last a long time. I get a pack at BJ's maybe once a year. They sell Duracell, and I'm happy with them.