Wattnot
Enlightened
EDIT: never mind . . . it turns out the battery won't hold a charge. I'm tossing this. Thanks.
Hi All. My neighbor gave me this lantern. The battery seems to be in good shape (6V SLA?) but the lamps are apparently dead. Replacements cost $6 each at Home Depot and hardly seem worth it, especially since they have such a short lifespan (from my experience, anyway).
I thought it might be worth playing with this . . . maybe spending the $12 elsewhere, like DX for a couple of floody LEDs I could mount in there. I haven't taken voltage measurments yet to know how the two positions are wired but I'm betting they're fed two different voltages since the lamps are in series, connected by the cap.
Is it worth playing with this? I have no idea how bright this gets in it's original config . . . maybe it's worth just buying a set of those lamps and leaving it alone?
Opinions? Ideas? No big deal just a time killing and maybe fun project. I want a lantern for the semi-annual, 3 hour power outage we have here (you can almost mark your calender!).
Hi All. My neighbor gave me this lantern. The battery seems to be in good shape (6V SLA?) but the lamps are apparently dead. Replacements cost $6 each at Home Depot and hardly seem worth it, especially since they have such a short lifespan (from my experience, anyway).
I thought it might be worth playing with this . . . maybe spending the $12 elsewhere, like DX for a couple of floody LEDs I could mount in there. I haven't taken voltage measurments yet to know how the two positions are wired but I'm betting they're fed two different voltages since the lamps are in series, connected by the cap.
Is it worth playing with this? I have no idea how bright this gets in it's original config . . . maybe it's worth just buying a set of those lamps and leaving it alone?
Opinions? Ideas? No big deal just a time killing and maybe fun project. I want a lantern for the semi-annual, 3 hour power outage we have here (you can almost mark your calender!).
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