been overdriving li-ion in ARC AA's for sometime with no problems. Now that AAA li-ion are available it's a logical progression.
using li-ion in ARC AAA and AA seems to overcome the low voltage startup issue. but jury of effects on longivity is still out.
Very few ARC AAA's with chip problems actually got shipped. Most instances of intermitten problems I've seen are actually caused by bad contact between board to head and/or battery leakage.
AAA sized batteries seems to leak more than any other alk cells. don't know if that's true or not, but that what it seems like.
it doesn't take but a tiny leak to cause corosion and contact problems. film can be almost invisible. take a flat bladed screw driver and scrape post.
one of the few weakness in ARC AAA design is the negative battery post. note it's not a flat post, but are concave. This means only a tiny edge actually makes contact with cell.
ARC AAA with chip problems can be fixed by using AAA sized li-ion cells. I've had no problems over-driving ARC AAA and ARC AA's with li-ion so far. your mileage may veri..
using li-ion in ARC AAA with suspected chip/contact problems will usually fire up and run fine. brightness of course greatly increases. Have no idea of what this does to longivity, but if you are having problems already..
need to do more testing with regular ARC AAA to see if using li-ion in ARC AAA reduces life.
most of my testing with li-ion cell is with 14500 and ARC AA. they both use the same circuit, so tests should be valid to both.
don't blame me if you blow up your ARC AAA or AA.
using li-ion in ARC AAA and AA seems to overcome the low voltage startup issue. but jury of effects on longivity is still out.
Very few ARC AAA's with chip problems actually got shipped. Most instances of intermitten problems I've seen are actually caused by bad contact between board to head and/or battery leakage.
AAA sized batteries seems to leak more than any other alk cells. don't know if that's true or not, but that what it seems like.
it doesn't take but a tiny leak to cause corosion and contact problems. film can be almost invisible. take a flat bladed screw driver and scrape post.
one of the few weakness in ARC AAA design is the negative battery post. note it's not a flat post, but are concave. This means only a tiny edge actually makes contact with cell.
ARC AAA with chip problems can be fixed by using AAA sized li-ion cells. I've had no problems over-driving ARC AAA and ARC AA's with li-ion so far. your mileage may veri..
using li-ion in ARC AAA with suspected chip/contact problems will usually fire up and run fine. brightness of course greatly increases. Have no idea of what this does to longivity, but if you are having problems already..
need to do more testing with regular ARC AAA to see if using li-ion in ARC AAA reduces life.
most of my testing with li-ion cell is with 14500 and ARC AA. they both use the same circuit, so tests should be valid to both.
don't blame me if you blow up your ARC AAA or AA.
