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    Neat household MacGyver tricks you've learned

    Elastic bands can be pretty effective fly killers for picking off resting flies. Take a wide elastic band, place one end over the tip of an index finger, pull the band back with the other hand, take aim and let go. Once you get your aiming sorted out, this can have a decent success rate.
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    Cheapest way to have emergency lighting? Im talking fuel vs battery ?

    I bought a couple of Sofirn LT1s (not LT1Ss) a year ago, one for home use, and one to donate to the caving expedition my club runs every summer (5 weeks camping on a mountain) which has traditionally used a Coleman lantern. I haven't had to use the home one yet, but the one I gave to the...
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    if i replace them weekly are alkines safe?

    For someone concerned about possible outages without charging facilities, for a light they regularly use (or one they want ready for instant use), I would have thought that keeping NiMH in the light long term and having other cells ready to reload in case of emergency would make sense.
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    Neat household MacGyver tricks you've learned

    The active ingredient (capsaicin) is an irritant for mammals, but not for birds.
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    Adaptive light output head lamp under $100

    There is the Petzl Swift RL - going from the cheapest UK prices (typically ~£70), it might be buyable for ~$100, and seems to have much in common with the Nao. Googling for headtorch automatic dimming brings up quite a few other possibilities
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    Is the problem my batteries or my new battery charger? (Battery analyzer charge test mode)

    Does it give consistent results for a given cell? Do all slots behave the same way? It would not be too surprising if AAs which had degraded to the point of having an actual capacity of 400mAh also had relatively high resistance. Looking at the manual: Note: When attempting to charge cells...
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    Neat household MacGyver tricks you've learned

    For individual wasps/hornets in a room, a rolled-up newspaper or equivalent can be made more effective by having a layer of inside-out sellotape/scotch tape wrapped around the end - start off with tape sticking to the paper, then twist and wrap the tape around in a spiral, sticky-side out, so it...
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    Neat household MacGyver tricks you've learned

    I recently had an outside drain which had its trap almost completely blocked with sediment. Water would slowly seep through, but not with nearly enough flow to clear anything away. Fortunately, I had a ~2.5m length of plastic drainpipe. Pushing it down into the drain made a sufficiently good...
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    Nitecore EA41 starts discharging if left longer than a week

    It would certainly seem worth getting in touch with Nitecore. I admire the persistence and curiosity it must have taken to get from 'this light just drains cells' to 'this light drains cells if it isn't regularly used'. Most people (likely including me) would probably have just stopped using...
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    Nitecore EA41 starts discharging if left longer than a week

    Having looked at some related Nitecore threads, did you try the 'drained' cells in anything else to double-cjeck they were really empty, or just recharge (NiMH) or dispose of (alkaline) them? There's *maybe* a chance of a subtle contact issue that might be remedied by just removing and replacing...
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    Nitecore EA41 starts discharging if left longer than a week

    What kind of non-use time does it take to totally drain the cells?
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    Nitecore EA41 starts discharging if left longer than a week

    I'm curious about what sequence of events/experiments showed cells starting to be discharged after a week of non-use. I can see how someone would notice cells having become fully or significantly discharged over time, but (unless the light just turns itself on) to find out when the discharge...
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    Beware Alkaline Cells

    As someone who uses both, but uses NiMH far more than alkaline, I have seen the occasional NiMH (usually someone else's) go a little crusty on the end, but (unlike alkalines) I've never seen one, however old, leak to the point of upchucking its contents all over the device it is inside and...
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    Beware Alkaline Cells

    Possibly lights are particularly susceptible to damage from leaking cells, as people (especially people with a lot of lights) may have lights which are rarely used, and left with cells inside for a long time? I used to make LED dive light inserts for friends, and I recently came across an old...
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    how about 21700 4500 mah battery vs energizer l91? im still deciding on my survial cells

    Wasn't the 1/10Amp just indicating the expected drain current of the cells? Though you're generally right regarding Watt-hours being the best measure, that does rely on what is being powered using the voltage/current efficiently - if using 3x L91s in a 3xAA light (or a 21700 in a single-cell...
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