I have a Gen. 1 KL3 I had Chop mod for me with a TWOH run at around 880 mA that I use on 6P + MC123 and 17500's. It has become my baby for now. I was playing with it tonight and popped a couple AAs in it figuring it would probably work but be fairly dim and to my surprise it was very bright. Maybe not as bright as if it were running in regulation but it seemed pretty close.
Now I know I can't be the first person to have tried this so I thought I'd see who else had tried it and what kind of runtime they got. I am in finals right now so I shouldn't even be on CPF right now and I'm not going to do my own runtime test yet but I'm guessing that it would be fairly short.
I was excited to see that it worked mostly because it gives me one more option, even if it's not a great option, in an emergency situation. 123s get a bad rap sometimes about being expensive or hard to find in pinch. Even if I were in situation where I could only get AA's I'd still have light and that's pretty cool to discover on a whim.
Now I know I can't be the first person to have tried this so I thought I'd see who else had tried it and what kind of runtime they got. I am in finals right now so I shouldn't even be on CPF right now and I'm not going to do my own runtime test yet but I'm guessing that it would be fairly short.
I was excited to see that it worked mostly because it gives me one more option, even if it's not a great option, in an emergency situation. 123s get a bad rap sometimes about being expensive or hard to find in pinch. Even if I were in situation where I could only get AA's I'd still have light and that's pretty cool to discover on a whim.