Dude Dudeson
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Is there a thread about this anywhere? EDIT: This is an LED specific topic, for me anyway
I swear I'm getting way, way more runtime from my lights/batteries than any runtime figure I've seen.
Bought my 6PL early last June. Played with it a lot, and used it a lot.
Bought my M60 in late July. By then I was pretty sure I'd put about 3 hours on the Surefire 123's, so I put a new set in figuring the M60 would have killed the used cells quick, and also wanted to get an accurate idea of my M60 runtime.
At that time I had become aware that the 6PL's "11 hour" runtime claim was BS, and knew I could expect around 4 "real" hours. So I was keeping a decent mental tally on my usage.
I wished to do the same with the M60 (although by that point I was fairly trusting of Gene's figures).
Now back to those original Surefire cells - shortly afterward one of them went into my Romisen RC-N3 II. By the way, I actually labelled the original Surefire cells with a Sharpie, so there's been no mixup. The first set of M60 cells were labeled too.
SINCE then I've put at least an hour on the Romisen on high, and probably another hour on low. That one cell just isn't dying... (for those who don't know, that Romisen puts out about the same light as the stock Surefire P60)
And the batteries in the 6P/M60? I'm guessing at least 120 minutes - I did a 30 or 40 minute test for heat right when I got it (5 mile night hike, intermittent usage going out, left it on the whole walk back, walking slow, stopping to light stuff up, etc).
That night was nearly 4 weeks ago, and I've done that same hike about 6 more times since then (but no big heat tests, longest straight runtime maybe 10 minutes tops). Also a lot of quick uses around the house.
So my very informal, unscientific observations seem to indicate that intermittent usage yields much greater runtimes - any hard or anecdotal evidence among CPF'ers that agrees?
I swear I'm getting way, way more runtime from my lights/batteries than any runtime figure I've seen.
Bought my 6PL early last June. Played with it a lot, and used it a lot.
Bought my M60 in late July. By then I was pretty sure I'd put about 3 hours on the Surefire 123's, so I put a new set in figuring the M60 would have killed the used cells quick, and also wanted to get an accurate idea of my M60 runtime.
At that time I had become aware that the 6PL's "11 hour" runtime claim was BS, and knew I could expect around 4 "real" hours. So I was keeping a decent mental tally on my usage.
I wished to do the same with the M60 (although by that point I was fairly trusting of Gene's figures).
Now back to those original Surefire cells - shortly afterward one of them went into my Romisen RC-N3 II. By the way, I actually labelled the original Surefire cells with a Sharpie, so there's been no mixup. The first set of M60 cells were labeled too.
SINCE then I've put at least an hour on the Romisen on high, and probably another hour on low. That one cell just isn't dying... (for those who don't know, that Romisen puts out about the same light as the stock Surefire P60)
And the batteries in the 6P/M60? I'm guessing at least 120 minutes - I did a 30 or 40 minute test for heat right when I got it (5 mile night hike, intermittent usage going out, left it on the whole walk back, walking slow, stopping to light stuff up, etc).
That night was nearly 4 weeks ago, and I've done that same hike about 6 more times since then (but no big heat tests, longest straight runtime maybe 10 minutes tops). Also a lot of quick uses around the house.
So my very informal, unscientific observations seem to indicate that intermittent usage yields much greater runtimes - any hard or anecdotal evidence among CPF'ers that agrees?
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so constant runtime usually varies between manufacturer and home testing, then varies again in normal intermittent use too...
