[Poll] *Do You Leave batteries in for all your flashlights?*

Haha, you might be a flashaholic if…

Cool :slight_smile:

I have many more flashlights than batteries. Batteries are expensive!

I keep batteries in my EDC lights, plus my “house light” (L6) and my Z1, currently. The only light that has a connected circuit is the FW3A, everything else is either locked out or has a mechanical switch.

All of my personal flashlights are stored with batteries. I might be an oddity though. All those lights use Eneloops and are either twisties or tail-clickies. :slight_smile:

Around a hundred have batteries in and some spares of each type are charged and the rest of the batteries are at storage voltage in a metal cabnet

OMG I only have 10 batteries…Total!

One day you’ll remember that time… looking at a drawer full of cells. BLF will help you get there, don’t worry. :wink:

Yeah thats strange, the other night I had a dream I'd own a box like this someday

Batteries in two EDC 26650 lights and two 18650, around 3.9 to 4.0 volts - they get recharged or replaced around 3.6 to 3.7v. No batteries in the other lights; their batteries are in cases at 3.6 to 3.7v unless their is a high wind advisory and then some backups and LT1 batteries get charged. We get a few power outages every year.

Also I have an 8-cell Maha NiMH charger and I keep cells in that.
Contemplating getting the Sofirn 8-cell NiMH charger as well, so I have more cells ready and waiting when the earthquake happens.

I’m not real sure about leaving cells indefinitely in a NiMH charger, but so far so good.

40+ Torches (now. Reduced them)
35ish have battery in, the rest are in boxes sans Battery.

Spare Battery’s.
Around 18/20. 26650/18650/14500/10500. plus a 4 set of Li-Po aaa’s.
Oh. and a half dozen half size cells too. To suit some short arse torches I tried.
Prefer the 18650 and 26650’s myself.

One thing I have noticed.
The second hand cells from lappie battery packs. (Sony. LG etc.)
ARE giving better. LONGER Power and time. That any Chinese cells

In standard. NOT super output torches, S2/C8/+ and others similar.
those cells do a great job in normal usage.

Yes to both. If its a light for use its kept with battery. If its put away and not in use/rotation/etc then its stored without a battery.

I’ve just enough cells to fill my EDC and the lights dotted around the house (maybe, 6 total). Remainder are stored empty in a small plastic tool-box.

I’ve a few multi-cell lights and only 2 sets of married cells, so invariably there’s a Q8 or the GT which is occasionally empty.

Any spare cells live in the battery box, mostly charged and ready to go.

I have more NiMh AA’s than I know what to do with… Obvious solution is to buy another AA fueled light :smiley:

Just because…

A single Li-ion is a cell, if joined in a pack of two or more and wrapped in a pack it becomes a battery… a battery of cells means more than one. Like a car battery is 6 cells.

Proprietary battery packs such as that in an Olight SR90 Intimidator have multiple cells linked together to form the pack, thus… a battery.

So, technically, virtually all our lights use cells.

Just saying.

edit: why anyone would keep such a volatile component as lithium in the potentially reactive humidity of a refrigerator (with FOOD?) is totally beyond my capability to understand!

Clip/magazine.

I used to have batteries in most or all of my flashlights, but decided to only put them in the flashlights I was actually using. That means I still have 20+ flashlights ready to go, and a box with over 100 batteries (not counting AA and AAA) in a cupboard. I am about to reduce the number still further and add even more batteries to the box. I seem to only use single cell lights with Anduril, or AAA pocket lights these days.

I hear ya pennzy, but these ain’t bullets and bullets ain’t cells and guns ain’t flashlights. Whole nuther conversation right there.

But hey, you went there so lets look at that. A magazine is a spring loaded box that carries or holds loose rounds of ammunition in order to feed a semi-auto or auto loader. A clip is not spring loaded nor is it a box that encapsulates the loose rounds, rather it clips a number of rounds of ammo together to allow instant loading in the weapon designed for this style of reload. So a clip is not a magazine any more than our cells are batteries.

An M1 Garand in .30-06 has what amounts to a built in magazine that is reloaded with clips. If you were to relate this to our flashlights the tube is the magazine and we feed single rounds of ammunition (cells) into it. :wink:

^ Thanks Dale,
Appreciate a man who knows his firearm and energy nomenclature :wink:

I dont have that many lights anymore (maybe 20) sold or gifted alot of the ones I wasn’t using, so I have cells for all my lights now, with some charged spares available for when I ned a quick swap, or to throw in a pack when I go on my frequent road trips or jaunts to the mountains. All if my cells stay charged, since they get used often.

I live and work on a medium large ranch, (few thousand acres) with lots of farm animals and corresponding predators, and the very occasional unsavory 2 legged critter. Ny night vision isn’t nearly as good as it used to be (years of being a welder affected that I suppose) so I use a flashlight almost every night, and even during the day alot to see into deep shadows on equipment, barns, etc. Which light I use depends on how far I need to see. Every light I have gets used…some just occasionally, some multiple times per day.

I have li-ion cells that are coming on 7 years old, and doing fine after being fully charged and stored in flashlights with infrequent use.

One light in particular has some olight protected cells that have lived in a fenix tk35 in my truck glove box for 6 or 7 years. I’m suprised they are handling the temp extremes ok.

Sorry, I have this thing about the black and white of right and wrong.

And sometimes I drink too much coffee too fast which causes me to get a little carried away… my bad.

Perhaps the new med my Dr. put me on is causing me to over react, all the same, getting carried away is still my bad. Again, sorry.

No apologies needed for me :slight_smile: right is right.

/off topic/
I had to take myself off some asthma meds my dr had put me on. About 2 years in, I gradually started getting more moody and angry than my usual self. Kept getting worse and I finally noticed, had to ask myself why. It only became obvious what it was when I noticed the change shortly after taking my daily pill.

No problemo. We all have our quirks.