Bort
April 12, 2013, 9:07pm
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Don:
Runtime.
Danger - you push alkaleaks that hard - bad things can happen. Mostly involving damage to the light, not the person holding it.
Current capability - alkaleaks just can’t provide it.
And if it will take AA’s people will use the cheapest garbage on the market. And they will fail.
Badly sometimes.
So nobody in the West is going to sell something that will expose them to product liability suits. It could easily be done but the target market will put the crappiest AA’s available in it - and will sue when they fail badly.
I’d not sell anything in a place with product liability laws where they are just now in the US/EU.
the EA4 and EA8 fit the bill, but this is one example of the consequences of something discussed in another thread, you can’t count on people to use NiMH in such a light