Tried the Westinghouse 4439 75w lamp from M.M. hot of the charger and no probs.
Bright as hell, and sets newspaper alight within a second or so, I have a kiu bezzle on it (somtimes) and with the "teeth" resting on or just off the paper it fired striaght up, pull it back to an inch or more to try again and a smoldering hole quickly appears. This was whilst it was snowing outside BTW. I was too impatient to see if it would ignite at that range over a longer time, so I pushed it pack closer and heard the familiar sound of the flames lighting from the page again
Dont try this at home kids, but I lit a cigarette of the 623 last night, gives a whole new meaning to asking "have you got a light."
Couldn't see alot for a short while after lighting it mind you, and that was with my eyes mostly closed trying to judge the gap . Not to sure whats worse for you, the Max Blaster full in the face or cancer sticks.
The 75 lamp is a good way to take the edge of a 15.6 hot of the charger pack if you want the 623 quick. It would only take about 30 second I think, I ran mine for about a minute, and I was down from 19 or so Volts to around 17.5 ish.
Still seemed to be pulling a good 7 + amps at 17.5 volts from memory. Cant remember what the 623 pulls, it read its about 9, but i seem to think it was pulling less when I tested a 1/2 draind pack. Interesting thing is that the amps count down in roughly seconds to 0.1 A as the light runs, you know its not going to last long, but its great fun while its counting down.
I think the 75W lamp is supposed to run for about 15 mins and the 623 for 8.
I'm not sure if I'm even getting that long. I dont even think the readings I have taken calculate out to that long but I haven't done a runtime test yet to confirm.
Anybody know if anything that I could to improve or help the packs performance, I am charging a 0.9A instead of 1.8A on the universal smart charger. The pack says dont charge at more than 2A, but ED suggested to go with .9 for long term reliability. I may have to charge at 1.8A somtimes though, so would it realy hurt the pack too much to risk it? Especially when it said on the pack max 2A. The cells are Elite 1500 BTW.
I work 2 weeks on 2 weeks off, so for 2 weeks the pack will be sitting idle for two weeks sometimes. I have left it about 80% charged befor I left for a weeks trip.
I have heard of people putting cells in the freezer, but that seems like its asking for trouble to me. I guess it could live in the fridge if that would help.
Also Is it worth running the pack down each time before recharging, or just topping off each time I use it.
I think in the cold weather we are having atm, I could run the torch for the full 8 minutes, but It would be hot, I have done a good 5 minutes, and it was hot, but not impossible to hold, but the warm pack makes me wonder whats happening to the cells. My guess is they wonlt like it, But I dont know a thing about Nimh.
I may just stick to the 75 watt most of the time, Its stupid bright on its own, 2000 lumens apparently, and the extra runtime is nice; But..
Of course, at some point, when you absolutely, positively got to illuminate every mofo in the room, accept no substitute, and move on to the full force of the 623.
The 623 does put out more light, not sure what, I see 4400 lumens but I know thats torch lumens so I was thinking around 2800-3000 lumens ish otf but its hard to compare only having one light, and two types of lamps, eitherway both lamps light up my garden which is big, so neither lamp is a slouch.
Any chance you could do a comparison Lux? I know you have differnt sized packs, but It would be nice to see or hear how each lamp compares in either host with either pack.
