texaspyro
October 8, 2012, 5:52am
1
I bought one of Old Lumens AA Maglights that he modded with a Nichia high-CRI LED (All SOLD - 2AA Maglites "Flag Light" Nichia 219, Carlco TIR - ), put a couple of Fry’s bulk-pack alkaline AA cells in it and crammed it into my integrating sphere for a quick test (All SOLD - 2AA Maglites "Flag Light" Nichia 219, Carlco TIR - )
Well, it’s not been so quick a test. The darn thing keeps spewing light. The contest is to guess how many hours it will run before it quits. The winner gets a box of dead alkaline and zinc cells (US only, and the winner pays the postage). Some prize, huh? No obligation to accept the prize.
cainn
October 8, 2012, 6:03am
3
texaspyro:
The contest is to guess how many hours it will run before it quits. The winner gets a box of dead alkaline and zinc cells (US only, and the winner pays the postage). Some prize, huh? No obligation to accept the prize.
Can you ship internationally via fedex express?
DrJones
October 8, 2012, 6:41am
6
4*PI hours till it stops glowing.
MRsDNF
October 8, 2012, 9:22am
8
I'm in with the one condition that if I win, which I will, that if any batteries have any charge at all left in them that I reserve the right to send the batteries back to texaspyro at his own expense. This torch will create light until all my kids finally leave home.
gearjunkie
October 8, 2012, 10:36am
9
My guess is 5 days 5 hours.
eebowler
October 8, 2012, 11:07am
10
before it quits? What’s the deffinition of quitting?
scaru
October 8, 2012, 12:59pm
12
4 days 2 hours 13 minutes 41 seconds. :D
cainn
October 8, 2012, 1:03pm
13
Well, in that case, I’m going for 4 days, 2 hours, 13 minutes and 42 seconds.
scaru
October 8, 2012, 1:29pm
14
cainn:
Well, in that case, I’m going for 4 days, 2 hours, 13 minutes and 42 seconds.
Damn you! Make that 4 days 2 hours 13 minutes and 43 seconds.
texaspyro
October 8, 2012, 10:40pm
15
The definition of when the light dies is when I (or my sensors) can’t see the light…
Can’t ship the cells internationally… postal regs and all that.
Dead cells may have some life left in them.
And all contest enterers should read that thread (All SOLD - 2AA Maglites "Flag Light" Nichia 219, Carlco TIR - ) to the end… it already has over 100 hours on it…
Chicago_X
October 9, 2012, 12:40am
18
6 days 6 hours 6 minutes, or 9006 minutes...
Old-Lumens
October 9, 2012, 1:32am
20
I know how long, but I can't tell y'all.
Those Fry's batteries must have been cross bred by the Energizer Bunny.
Frys wabbit......
I’m calling 14 hrs.