I am wondering why nobody has built a double or triple barrel flashlight?
I think with small cells like CR123A, AA and 18650, these are fairly small size cells. Instead of having single barrel getting longer the more cells you use, is there not a market for going sideways instead and having say a 2AA flashlight with a double barrel? You could still have a fairly small and flat flashlight with double barrel but with more runtime due to extra batteries?
You could even have 4AA with double barrel. The same goes for other cell sizes too... You would get more juice and have to change batteries less often especially for non-rechargeable high drain flashlights if you use higher output more often.
Even rechargeables the amount of run time you get from rechargeable is less than primary(?), so if you have double barrel and can have more cells you get more runtime and save money with rechargeable without sacrifice runtime.
I don't think double barrel would make these small flashlights much bigger would they? You could even have a bigger better reflector in the torch head.
A triple barrel would maybe also be something that would be good and would help keep the same round shape for regular flashlights although it would be quite a bit wider.
What's your thoughts?
John
I think with small cells like CR123A, AA and 18650, these are fairly small size cells. Instead of having single barrel getting longer the more cells you use, is there not a market for going sideways instead and having say a 2AA flashlight with a double barrel? You could still have a fairly small and flat flashlight with double barrel but with more runtime due to extra batteries?
You could even have 4AA with double barrel. The same goes for other cell sizes too... You would get more juice and have to change batteries less often especially for non-rechargeable high drain flashlights if you use higher output more often.
Even rechargeables the amount of run time you get from rechargeable is less than primary(?), so if you have double barrel and can have more cells you get more runtime and save money with rechargeable without sacrifice runtime.
I don't think double barrel would make these small flashlights much bigger would they? You could even have a bigger better reflector in the torch head.
A triple barrel would maybe also be something that would be good and would help keep the same round shape for regular flashlights although it would be quite a bit wider.
What's your thoughts?
John