Yup, Federal government here as well, albeit the one South-of-the-Border ... from you. Probably the same one as FOPLODGE44
It's a common misconception amongst the public that government employees at all levels are lazy, incompetent, and unemployable. Rather than taking offense to such thinking, sometimes it's better to go along with it in a humorous manner to diffuse the situation, or use the same jesting internally. Sorry if you took offense to it. Realistically it's pretty much known that employees in all government agencies are often paid much less in actual wages than their private sector counterparts, though in overall compensation packages, they may be similar when things like the retirement packages are taken into account. As such it's not unusual for government employees at all levels to feel that they are working for less than they could make in the private sector.
Another term that I (and I"m sure others) have used is "Sure beats working for a living."
With regards to multiple government layers, I think there may be a couple situations down here that might be similar though nothing that includes the Federal level since the U.S. does not have a federal police force or anything specifically like the RCMP. There are however officers that may work at a State level and then report at both a county and municipal level (e.g. CHP,) and we do have county sheriff's offices that work on contract with incorporated municipalities that do not have their own police departments and are thus accountable to both.
With regards batteries, if you're referring to the 900 mAh batteries from Tenergy, they won't work either, the 2320 bulb draws too much current for those batteries. The 3.0V ones from Ultralast (North American Battery Co.) will work, don't know if they're available up your way, I've only seen them in one chain of stores here (Fry's,) but it looks like they're available from a number of web sites. If you want to use Unforgiven's parcel forwarding service, you could probably get some forwarded to you. Do bear in mind that the run time is about 1/2 or less of the primary batteries.
PeteBroccolo said:
Excuse me, brighteyez and FOPLODGE44, but unless you two work for the Federal Government like SOME of us do, you can hardly brag about being paid and not working! Then again, try working for 3 levels of government at once.
Now, not that this has gotten off topic or anything...
So, FOPLODGE44, are you using lithium primaries, or lithium-ion rechargeables? I helped one of my partners buy a Pelican 2320 M6 sometime ago, and he runs it on 2 Powerizer white and blue RCR123A 680 mAh 3.0 volt cells (and is the person for whom I am trying to buy 2 more cells for). While those cells seem to no longer be available, and since I have tried my RCR123A 600 mAh 3.0 volt cells in his light and found out that they did NOT work, I would suggest buying 2 (or 4) RCR123A 900 mAh 3.0 volt, OR 1 (or 2) 17670 3.7 volt, rechargeable cells and a charger.
