Ponce
12th March 2013, 03:17 PM
My idea.......you can keep the high power by having a swich that have a "center neutral".... "right low"... "left high", I can see it but cannot explained..........you guys are smarter than me on this...I'll do it just for the hell of it.
Go to link for clear pictures as how to do this.
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Rayovac has been hitting bullseyes lately. So has WalMart. (I do not own stock in either company). I was at my local WalMart last week and I made a list of all of the flash lights in the sporting goods department that had a run time over 40 hours. I counted 7. Most of them were Rayovac and all of them were under $16.00. So why am I doing another Instructable modifying a flashlight to make it run longer on a set of batteries? The longest run time flashlight was a 52 hour, 9 lumen flashlight for $2.50. It is a modern version of the old style flashlight with the slide switch on the side. The slide switch is not as reliable as the click on / click off type. Also in regard to brightness, this flash light starts out about where this new flashlight and the Eveready flashlight I modified last time end up after running 3x longer (about 6x for the Eveready). Last of all, I like flashlights that run longer than 52 hours. So for a cost of about double that of the 52 hour flashlight and 10 minutes of my time I ended up with a much brighter flashlight, over 3 times the run time, a reliable switch and in floats.
It says “Runs 10x Longer” on the packaging. 10x longer than what? My first long run time modification used a Rayovac flashlight that looks almost exactly like this one but it had an incandescent bulb in it (gets hot, wastes power). Unmodified, it had a 4.5 hour run time.
Here is the instructable for that modification:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Rayovac-Bright-10-LED-Mod-150-Hours-Under-600/?ALLSTEPS
Go to link for clear pictures as how to do this.
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Rayovac has been hitting bullseyes lately. So has WalMart. (I do not own stock in either company). I was at my local WalMart last week and I made a list of all of the flash lights in the sporting goods department that had a run time over 40 hours. I counted 7. Most of them were Rayovac and all of them were under $16.00. So why am I doing another Instructable modifying a flashlight to make it run longer on a set of batteries? The longest run time flashlight was a 52 hour, 9 lumen flashlight for $2.50. It is a modern version of the old style flashlight with the slide switch on the side. The slide switch is not as reliable as the click on / click off type. Also in regard to brightness, this flash light starts out about where this new flashlight and the Eveready flashlight I modified last time end up after running 3x longer (about 6x for the Eveready). Last of all, I like flashlights that run longer than 52 hours. So for a cost of about double that of the 52 hour flashlight and 10 minutes of my time I ended up with a much brighter flashlight, over 3 times the run time, a reliable switch and in floats.
It says “Runs 10x Longer” on the packaging. 10x longer than what? My first long run time modification used a Rayovac flashlight that looks almost exactly like this one but it had an incandescent bulb in it (gets hot, wastes power). Unmodified, it had a 4.5 hour run time.
Here is the instructable for that modification:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Rayovac-Bright-10-LED-Mod-150-Hours-Under-600/?ALLSTEPS