AA nimh's in Dorcy 3D 1W light

nerdgineer

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Just having fun with one of the Target special Dorcy 1 watters. Cut a piece of sprinkler pipe wide enough to hold AA's long enough to match 3D's. Added cardboard spacers to center it and a 3/8" x 1" wide head bolt to make up the 24 mm length difference between 3AA's and 3D's. Wrapped the bolt to center it in the tube and voila. With nimh's hot off the charger, it looks like it's running about as bright as it does with 3 pretty fresh D cells.

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A $1.35 accessory for a $5.48 light.
 

Lynx_Arc

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I took a piece of 97 cent pipe insulation and a paper clip bent to make up for the shortness of 3AA vs 3D and tried it.... works fine. If I could find 3AA-D parallel adapters I could put 9AA nimh in one.
 
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