Sten on 6 AA batteries

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Sten on 6 AA batteries

Postby Aaron Addison » Jan 7, 2008 10:59 am

Does anyone have experience using a Sten light with the AA battery adapter? I would be interested in hearing about usage and burn time on AA's.

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Re: Sten on 6 AA batteries

Postby FiddleCaver » Jan 7, 2008 12:34 pm

I don't have any experience with that personally, but I can tell you that using alkalines is not a good Idea. You will probably get close to the runtime with the Stenlight li-ion battery pack if you use 2600mah NiMH AAs.
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Re: Sten on 6 AA batteries

Postby Jeff Bartlett » Jan 7, 2008 12:43 pm

One of the people I caved with last weekend mentioned that they've caved all day on the 9V. Not sure about the 6AAs. Worrying about flying with a bunch of LI-ION packs?
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Re: Sten on 6 AA batteries

Postby Aaron Addison » Jan 7, 2008 12:58 pm

xcathodex wrote:Worrying about flying with a bunch of LI-ION packs?


I think that we may have that worked out, but there is no realistic way to recharge the Li-ion packs once we are in the field, and I don't think that they will last the whole time.

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Re: Sten on 6 AA batteries

Postby JoeyS » Jan 8, 2008 9:36 am

How about lithium AA's? Not rechargeable, but better life than alkalines.
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Re: Sten on 6 AA batteries

Postby Adam Byrd » Jan 9, 2008 5:49 pm

xcathodex wrote:Worrying about flying with a bunch of LI-ION packs?


should one worry over this? i flew with Li-ion batteries 2x in the last month (checked in baggage) with no problems.
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Re: Sten on 6 AA batteries

Postby Jeff Bartlett » Jan 9, 2008 6:01 pm

Adam Byrd wrote:
xcathodex wrote:Worrying about flying with a bunch of LI-ION packs?


should one worry over this? i flew with Li-ion batteries 2x in the last month (checked in baggage) with no problems.


it's kind of up for debate right now - more TSA silliness. see this thread.
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