Best D cells for a Malkoff 2-3-4 D dropin?

Title pretty much says it all. I'm leaning towards rechargeables, although that means I need to buy a charger and 4-pack

I use Duracell Alkalines in mine.

How often do you use it?

divine said:

How often do you use it?

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Thats the kicker. The dropin just became available today. I dont even have it yet!

I have a bunch of alkies leftover from, last years camping trips, but I suspect in my glee with my newfound toy Ill drain those quick, so I want replacements on the way

I'm going to buy a Maha 808M charger and some Accupower LSD batteries soon. Probably order them next week from Thomas Distributing.

I haven't seen much talk of those batteries here.

Greg G said:

I haven't seen much talk of those batteries here.

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Probably because they're pretty expensive. When they get down to about $5 each, you'll probably see more talk.

Greg G said:

I'm going to buy a Maha 808M charger and some Accupower LSD batteries soon. Probably order them next week from Thomas Distributing.

I haven't seen much talk of those batteries here.

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I have a maha 808 and 2 Accupower D and 8 Accupower C cells. I highly recommend these cells and this charger. The cells are fantastic.

I have couple of 1 D lights built by Icarus with RV7 drivers and these D cells. The LSD characteristic of these cells is exactly as advertised.

Highly recommended.

Thanks Rommul, that makes me feel more confident.

My latest Malkoffs (out of 4) are running in a 1d host on four AA eneloop rechrgeables. I figured it'd be just as bright, but that I'd get limited runtime. I can't believe these things, both lights run almost four hours continuously. When I first got the battery packs I wanted to run them down then charge em back up for a few cycles right off the batt but I couldn't hardly kill em. haha. I'm actually considering running AA eneloops in the D spacers in all my led Dmags. I think if I went with four of the 10000 mah D's the thing would run continuously for a week. Eesh.


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Greg G said:

I'm going to buy a Maha 808M charger and some Accupower LSD batteries soon. Probably order them next week from Thomas Distributing.

I haven't seen much talk of those batteries here.

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I bought 6 of those D cells and 6 C cell and I also have the Maha 808 8-bay charger.

I generally use the Tenergy Ds which are rated at 10,000 mA and are a lot cheaper.

The accupowers are expensive expensive expensive is all I can say. I've got 6 of those LSD Accupower Ds sitting on my desk and when I think I spent $72 for six D cells and $50 for 6 C cells I am having second thoughts. I could have bought about 80 alkaline Duracell D cells at the wholesale club for $72.

Anyhow, they are on their 2nd cycle and its too soon to tell if they live up to the price. Frankly all the NiMh D and C cell, full capacity batteries are expensive.

I've intentionally chosen my D-cell flashlights to be totally UNregulated.
(Maglite 3-D w/MT-III drop in, Blaster 1D, and others).

The reason is, my intent for those lights is all to do with power-out emergencies, so I want to be able to totally use up a D-cell in order to squeeze the last bit of use out of it.

So I use only Alkalines not only because they are cheap and give nice runtimes, but if I were to use rechargeables and run them as low as my lights will use them, I'd end up damaging those expensive puppies anyway.

Alkalines are too cheap (IMHO) and practical not to use them as my main D-cell power source.

Zenster said:

I use only Alkalines not only because they are cheap and give nice runtimes, but if I were to use rechargeables and run them as low as my lights will use them, I'd end up damaging those expensive puppies anyway.

Alkalines are too cheap (IMHO) and practical not to use them as my main D-cell power source.

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+1 to all of that. My 3D mag with it's new Malkoff drop in just became my new house light.

Just got the Malkoff module installed in 3D Mag..

Great stuff...

I noticed it runs a bit brighter on NiMH vs. Alkalines. The latter are great in an emergency and do work well, but in lights that drain 1,000 mAh, which is what this lite does, I think NiMH can sustain the load better and longer.

The best brightness can come from 4xC NiMH I suspect.

I tried 4xC Alkalines and did not see any difference.

The only way I saw any difference comparing 3 cells versus 4 cells with my Malkoff drop-in was to use another bright flashlight as a brightness standard. L2D in my case. And then do a ceiling bounce test between the two.

The 4 cell (obviously) is brighter.

I am going to get some of these LSD Accupower cells, and try 4xC cell as well as the D cell. After 3 months, they self-discharge to 88%,not sure how good/bad it is.

Maha Powerex is awfully tempting though, but I don't know it's discharge rates.

overstock dot com appears to have better prices than thomas-distributing

I don't have a malkoff but I use nicads(the original lsd battery)in a 4d magled and it works excellent. They are only 5 bucks apiece too.

Thanks for sharing ...

I think there must be a reason why NiCads have died out and are replaced by NiMH type...