World\'s longest SF KL3 setup flexibly explored
Enquiring minds wanted to know what happened if you kept on adding SF body extenders and batteries to drive a KL3 at various voltages. I have round bezel, round barrel 3P's, 6Ps', and 9P's. My KL3 works with each (although the 3P needs at least one A19 to get the voltage up.)
Performance is regulated to be the same to my eyes (at least until battery drops below the Vf of the Luxeon) powered by anywhere between 3.7 V and 9.0 V including the following combinations:
1 @ 3.7 V lithium
3 @ 1.25 V NiMH A cells or 1.5 V Alkaline AA's
1 @ CR123 + 1 @ AA or A cell
1 @ 3.7 V lithium + AA or A cell
4 @ 1.25 V NiMh A or 4/5 A cells
2 @ CR123's
1 @ 3.7 V lithium + 1 @ CR123
2 @ 3.7 V lithium
2 @ CR123's + 1 AA or A cell
1 @ CR123 plus 4 @ AA or A
5 @ AA or A's
2 @ 3.7 V lithium + 1 @ AA or A,
2 @ CR123's + 2 @ AA or A cell
3 @ CR123.
6 @ AA or A's
7 @ 1.25 V NiMH A's or AA's (these would probably blow a P90, but not the KL3.)
I frivously decided to see how many working combinations I could put together in this voltage range.
Some of these combinations required an interesting combination of 6P or 9P body plus A14s and/or A19's. I have 6 @ A19's and 2 @ A14's. With these parts you can get to the 7 AA length with a 9P + 5 A19's plus an A14. To get even longer I next substituted 5 @ 4/3 A cells for A's to add the sixth A19 and second A14. This made the overall battery length = 8 AA cells plus 1 123 = 17.4 " . If I had another A19 I could have used 7 @ 4/3 A cells for total battery length of 18.7" which is equivalent to 9 1/3 A cells
The KL3 works very well and very flexibly. BTW, for Roy's and Klaus' benefit, I haven't performed, and don't intend to perform, a run time test with 5 @ 3800 mAh 4/3 A cells plus 3 @ 2700 mAh A cells.
Enquiring minds wanted to know what happened if you kept on adding SF body extenders and batteries to drive a KL3 at various voltages. I have round bezel, round barrel 3P's, 6Ps', and 9P's. My KL3 works with each (although the 3P needs at least one A19 to get the voltage up.)
Performance is regulated to be the same to my eyes (at least until battery drops below the Vf of the Luxeon) powered by anywhere between 3.7 V and 9.0 V including the following combinations:
1 @ 3.7 V lithium
3 @ 1.25 V NiMH A cells or 1.5 V Alkaline AA's
1 @ CR123 + 1 @ AA or A cell
1 @ 3.7 V lithium + AA or A cell
4 @ 1.25 V NiMh A or 4/5 A cells
2 @ CR123's
1 @ 3.7 V lithium + 1 @ CR123
2 @ 3.7 V lithium
2 @ CR123's + 1 AA or A cell
1 @ CR123 plus 4 @ AA or A
5 @ AA or A's
2 @ 3.7 V lithium + 1 @ AA or A,
2 @ CR123's + 2 @ AA or A cell
3 @ CR123.
6 @ AA or A's
7 @ 1.25 V NiMH A's or AA's (these would probably blow a P90, but not the KL3.)
I frivously decided to see how many working combinations I could put together in this voltage range.
Some of these combinations required an interesting combination of 6P or 9P body plus A14s and/or A19's. I have 6 @ A19's and 2 @ A14's. With these parts you can get to the 7 AA length with a 9P + 5 A19's plus an A14. To get even longer I next substituted 5 @ 4/3 A cells for A's to add the sixth A19 and second A14. This made the overall battery length = 8 AA cells plus 1 123 = 17.4 " . If I had another A19 I could have used 7 @ 4/3 A cells for total battery length of 18.7" which is equivalent to 9 1/3 A cells
The KL3 works very well and very flexibly. BTW, for Roy's and Klaus' benefit, I haven't performed, and don't intend to perform, a run time test with 5 @ 3800 mAh 4/3 A cells plus 3 @ 2700 mAh A cells.