[ale] [OT] any experience with low self discharge NIMH batteries

[Brian Stanaland]

We lost power during the storm a couple days ago.  We have fairly cheap LED
lanterns that run on 3 D batteries. They give off a lot of light and we've
had the first set of batteries in for over a year.

Having said that, we used our lanterns for light while getting the candles
and lighter.

--Brian


On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Mike Harrison <cluon at geeklabs.com>wrote:
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>> On Wed, 20 Mar 2013, Scott Plante wrote:
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>>> Just a thought to throw out there--you wrote: "I'm going to stick with
>>> my old reliable proven technology for now"--have you
>>> considered supplementing with oil or kerosene lanterns? I'm with you on
>>> the LEDs for flashlights you carry around, but you never
>>> have to worry about oil discharging (like batteries) in the cabinet and
>>> the light is quite nice. Warm light, yet bright enough to
>>> read from, and many, many hours of light are easy to store pretty much
>>> indefinitely.
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>> I have a flashlight fetish, I admit it. I must own 20+?
>> They are in my camper, truck, each car.. several in my house.. All of my
>> caving lights.. Almost all are now LED source...
>> Even my huge "club", a 4D cell maglight by the bed is LED.
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>> and yet, you make a point and it's why in my "Zombie Apocolypse Kit"
>> in the garage is a large really nice multifuel solid brass german (I
>> can't spell the brand) industrial-ish lantern with spare wicks and 2
>> gallons of white gas. It'll also run gasoline, kerosene and I'm told with a
>> little mod-kit, even diesel (heavy parafin?).
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> Only 2 gal?!?!? I've got 6 :-)  ZA gonna last a while...  add in the
> coleman lantern and stove...
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>> I've used it exactly one time, when after the tornadoes that hit the area
>> we had 6 days without juice and a pot of chili was slow cooked with a
>> rigged up pot bracket over it.
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>> I also store some lamp oil and lamps for the same reason.
>>
>> Pretty useful, and worth remembering how well that thing works.
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