A surprising discovery about MiniMag 3AA

haven't used the old minimag LED 3AA in a long time it seems.

I got a boatload of these Carbon-Zinc "super heavy duty" Eveready cells and was surprised to find out it runs really nice on them. The run time seems to be about 2 hours. This is great considering that these non-alkaline cells are just total junk and do not even power up the Fenix L2D (except maybe on lowest setting), and actually do not power up much of anything I have.

The mAh needs of MagLEd 3AA match the potential of the cells perfectly.

I got hundreds of these cells. I got them by mistake, thinking they were alkaline.

Very nice to know, thanks for the info. The Mag LED's sure take a verbal bashing at times due to this or that. Thanks again.

I still dont get the finesses of the english speech every time...

Does the fact a light works on crappy cells, that do not work with other lights, mean the glow-thing is good? or bad?
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its the same crap, imho, thats why it glows with the cells

Thanks for the info. Nice tint on those maglites.

yellow said:

I still dont get the finesses of the english speech every time...

Does the fact a light works on crappy cells, that do not work with other lights, mean the glow-thing is good? or bad?
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I think the point was that the MagLite is able to use crappy cells that don't work in other lights.

Maybe not. I have done a test on thursday pitching a 2AA MagLED against a MTE C2 5-mode.

Mag quit when battery voltage got about 2.26V, the MTE kept going even as low as 4 lux that kept them for 20 minutes when I got bored and too sleepy to wait for the end.

kosPap said:

Maybe not. I have done a test on thursday pitching a 2AA MagLED against a MTE C2 5-mode.

Mag quit when battery voltage got about 2.26V, the MTE kept going even as low as 4 lux that kept them for 20 minutes when I got bored and too sleepy to wait for the end.

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In my opinion, the MagLED 2AA is marginal in what it tries to squeeze out of its batteries. The 3AA version is a bit cumbersome, but it functions better.

asdalton said:

In my opinion, the MagLED 2AA is marginal in what it tries to squeeze out of its batteries. The 3AA version is a bit cumbersome, but it functions better.

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You oughta be careful with C-Zn cells. They're more prone to leaking than alkaline when they're drained, especially if you leave the light left on.