I suspect that the strong spring on the tail cap contributes to leaking.
Puts the batteries under mechanical pressure.

Has anyone else studied this, or got any anecdotal evidence? Are batteries
more likely to leak in a Mag light, compared to out of?

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Stormin Mormon wrote:
I suspect that the strong spring on the tail cap contributes to leaking.
Puts the batteries under mechanical pressure.

Has anyone else studied this, or got any anecdotal evidence? Are batteries
more likely to leak in a Mag light, compared to out of?

Christopher A. Young
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.

Hi,
My wife uses the light on her work when performing an eye exam.
I replaced bulb couple times but never had leakage problem.
I only use industrial grade Duracell batteries.

"Stormin Mormon" wrote in
:

I suspect that the strong spring on the tail cap contributes to
leaking. Puts the batteries under mechanical pressure.

Has anyone else studied this, or got any anecdotal evidence? Are
batteries more likely to leak in a Mag light, compared to out of?




It could be the spring. Never thought of that before.

Personally, I always thought it was because Mag-Lights are so well-sealed
internally: No air-flow.

I've had a number of Mag-Lights ruined on account of leaking batteries over
the years, but never in that same span of time have any of my ordinary
flashlights suffered from that problem. Same Duracell or Energizer
batteries in all, too.



--
Tegger

Eye exam? Would that be a mini mag? I can't remember having a leaky battery
in mini mag. Just the D cell models. I've only owned one C cell mag, and
that sits without batteries.

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"Tony Hwang" wrote in message
...

Hi,
My wife uses the light on her work when performing an eye exam.
I replaced bulb couple times but never had leakage problem.
I only use industrial grade Duracell batteries.

From your experiences, might be the Mags have more leaks.

Some places, it's possible to leave the light and the batteries separately.
Put the batteries in, at time of use. Other times, that's not practical.

Christopher A. Young
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"Tegger" wrote in message
...

It could be the spring. Never thought of that before.

Personally, I always thought it was because Mag-Lights are so well-sealed
internally: No air-flow.

I've had a number of Mag-Lights ruined on account of leaking batteries over
the years, but never in that same span of time have any of my ordinary
flashlights suffered from that problem. Same Duracell or Energizer
batteries in all, too.



--
Tegger

"Stormin Mormon" wrote in
:

From your experiences, might be the Mags have more leaks.

Some places, it's possible to leave the light and the batteries
separately. Put the batteries in, at time of use. Other times, that's
not practical.



I now rubber-band the batteries to the exterior of the flashlight, in the
orientation they need to be when installed.



--
Tegger

On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 12:00:01 -0400, "Stormin Mormon"
wrote:

From your experiences, might be the Mags have more leaks.

Some places, it's possible to leave the light and the batteries separately.
Put the batteries in, at time of use. Other times, that's not practical.

Christopher A. Young
Learn more about Jesus
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.

"Tegger" wrote in message
...

It could be the spring. Never thought of that before.

Personally, I always thought it was because Mag-Lights are so well-sealed
internally: No air-flow.

I've had a number of Mag-Lights ruined on account of leaking batteries over
the years, but never in that same span of time have any of my ordinary
flashlights suffered from that problem. Same Duracell or Energizer
batteries in all, too.


I've got several mini mag lites and one large mag lite and so far in
about 3 years no problems. Perhaps mine are still too new???

Democrat batteries face left, Republican batteries
face right?

(Sounds like a very good idea.)

Christopher A. Young
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"Tegger" wrote in message
...

I now rubber-band the batteries to the exterior of the flashlight,
in the orientation they need to be when installed.



--
Tegger

Perhaps. The one time, I had a leaker, I had to use a couple pipe wrenches
to get the tail cap off my 4D mag. Stored with the bulb end up, so it makes
sense any crud flowed down on to the threads. I now have a small light, so I
can see enough to find some batteries for my big light.

My 3D lights (one in each vehicle) havn't been a problem, yet. Knock wood.
Wish me luck.

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"Doug" wrote in message
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I've got several mini mag lites and one large mag lite and so far in
about 3 years no problems. Perhaps mine are still too new???

HVAC tech told me that alkaline batteries leak when in a partially
discharged state and left in a hot car or service van.

On 4/16/2012 10:21 AM, Stormin Mormon wrote:
I suspect that the strong spring on the tail cap contributes to leaking.
Puts the batteries under mechanical pressure.

Has anyone else studied this, or got any anecdotal evidence? Are batteries
more likely to leak in a Mag light, compared to out of?

I can easily imagine that. At least, in the warmer parts of the USA.

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"Myopic" wrote in message
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HVAC tech told me that alkaline batteries leak when in a partially
discharged state and left in a hot car or service van.

On 4/16/2012 10:21 AM, Stormin Mormon wrote:
I suspect that the strong spring on the tail cap contributes to leaking.
Puts the batteries under mechanical pressure.

Has anyone else studied this, or got any anecdotal evidence? Are batteries
more likely to leak in a Mag light, compared to out of?

"Stormin Mormon" wrote in news:Xj%
:

Democrat batteries face left, Republican batteries
face right?


And libertarian batteries go in sideways.



--
Tegger

I suspect that the strong spring on the tail cap contributes to leaking.
Puts the batteries under mechanical pressure.

Has anyone else studied this, or got any anecdotal evidence? Are
batteries
more likely to leak in a Mag light, compared to out of?

Don't know if it is just me, but I have more battery leakage in Maglites
than anything else. I used to get lots of the small ones for free, but now
I would not buy one. With the cheap LEDs, Maglites are overrated and
overpriced.

Steve

Tea party batteries insist on going back to the original paper work, and
going in the way the Founding Manufacturers wanted.

Hey, this is fun! Lets keep going.

Christopher A. Young
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"Tegger" wrote in message
...
"Stormin Mormon" wrote in news:Xj%
:

Democrat batteries face left, Republican batteries
face right?


And libertarian batteries go in sideways.



--
Tegger

"Stormin Mormon" wrote in message
...
Perhaps. The one time, I had a leaker, I had to use a couple pipe wrenches
to get the tail cap off my 4D mag. Stored with the bulb end up, so it
makes
sense any crud flowed down on to the threads. I now have a small light, so
I
can see enough to find some batteries for my big light.


I've been replacing my Mag lights with LED flashlights
More light in a smaller package,
I've recently picked up 3 235 Lumen LED flashlights for $25 each.
They're smaller than MiniMags, too

I'm waiting for a very bright LED conversion to go into the C and D cell Mag
lites
With the 3-4 battery Mags we should be able to have 300+ lumens out of them.