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My 24W showed up yesterday. I like the size a lot better than my 35W. Today I charged both batteries (I ordered the light with an extra battery), and tonight I just got thru testing the first one. I got 51 min and 50 seconds of run time. I did turn the light off at the 25 and 50 minute points for a 5 minute cool down each time. 52 minutes seems pretty good to me. I'll test the second battery tomorrow and see if it does as well. By the way, the brochure that came with the light mentions approximately 1hr of run time.

I also measured the battery length compared to the battery in my 35W. To be able to use the 35W's battery in the 24W, the extension tube for the 24W will be about 3" long. That should make the 24W come in at 12" long with the extension, vs 14.5" for the 35W.

Jim
 
CUL8R said:
My 24W showed up yesterday. I like the size a lot better than my 35W. Today I charged both batteries (I ordered the light with an extra battery), and tonight I just got thru testing the first one. I got 51 min and 50 seconds of run time. I did turn the light off at the 25 and 50 minute points for a 5 minute cool down each time. 52 minutes seems pretty good to me. I'll test the second battery tomorrow and see if it does as well. By the way, the brochure that came with the light mentions approximately 1hr of run time.

I also measured the battery length compared to the battery in my 35W. To be able to use the 35W's battery in the 24W, the extension tube for the 24W will be about 3" long. That should make the 24W come in at 12" long with the extension, vs 14.5" for the 35W.

Jim
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Jim,

If you don't mind me asking, how long does it take your 24W to reach maximum brightness with a cold lamp?
 
LumenMan said:
Jim,

If you don't mind me asking, how long does it take your 24W to reach maximum brightness with a cold lamp?
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Good question. I just went up to a dark room and tried to answer it. The light gets bright pretty quickly (4-8 seconds), but is brownish for a while. I'd say it was pretty near stable by 24-26 seconds. I watched it a little longer and it seems to change a very small amount until around the 45 second point. I don't think that change would be noticable in field use - outdoors with a moving beam. But it was noticable in a small dark room with no beam movement and nothing else to distract my attention.

Jim
 
Checked my second battery today and got 55minutes and 7 seconds. Even better then the first battery. I tested it the same way as the first one; 25 minutes on at a time, with a 5 minute cooldown after 25 and 50 minutes of runtime.

Jim
 
Jim,

Thank you so much for your very informative posts. I appreciate being "enlightened" by you :thumbsup:😎
 
I wonder if they've changed the cells in the newer batteries? Either that, or power levels have been reduced or maybe a ballast improvement.
 
That's fairly impressive run time for this little light. Now I'll be wondering how they improved it so much.

I sure am eager to so what BVH's new battery pack can do. :popcorn:
 
Battery life for Oracle 24 W Flashlight.

Hello. I am new to this forum 🙂 and was reading about the oracle 24w hid light and was where CUL8R found the "buyers corner" on the AAC website? I have searched and could not find it.
 
I called the technical department at AAC today and asked them about
my low battery runtime of 30 to 35 min 🙁, the guy said to return the batttery and they would send me a new one.
 
First run time test with the new Panasonic 2900 mah cells yielded exactly 55 minutes. I was hoping for a bit more but estimated it would be 53 to 58 so I was close. Test was one 55 minute run with a fan used to keep the light cool.
 
That's great news Bob! How many times have those particular cells been cycled now and did you happen to take any pictures of the newly assembled pack?

Thanks.

:popcorn:
 
No, didn't do any pack pics. These cells have 7 cycles now. I'll do another test later when I have more cycles. I wouldn't expect to gain much more than a minute or two. But, as Lux says, 55 minutes/1 hour in reality, is a lot of lighting time.
 
BVH said:
These cells have 7 cycles now. I'll do another test later when I have more cycles. I wouldn't expect to gain much more than a minute or two.
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I think you're right. I normally see improved li-po performance up to ten charges but that's from a fully discharged state. The biggest jumps are made after the first three or four cycles though.

Nice work Bob. :thumbsup:
 
BVH said:
First run time test with the new Panasonic 2900 mah cells yielded exactly 55 minutes. I was hoping for a bit more but estimated it would be 53 to 58 so I was close. Test was one 55 minute run with a fan used to keep the light cool.
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Hi Bob,

That's great runtime. I'm sure with these improved quality cells, it'll remain pretty consistant for quite a while.

BTW....I thought I was the only one that used a cooling fan on these flashlights when running tests..LOL. Nice :thumbsup:
 
After a full charge at a 1 Amp rate, a .1C discharge rate (200 ma) yielded only 1759 mah. So I would guess the original cells were no more than 1800 mah?
 
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