I am looking forwad to 3 to D holders for my VI, unresistorized. I think it will run longer than 123's. By the way, if left on for 15 minutes, with 123's, it gets very warm. Settles down after awhile, but when I tested mine with batteries starting at 2.87-2.88 each, I found that I really did not want to run it any longer than 15 min at a time. Bill