Re: Batteries
There were 4 "F" cells inside the lantern battery case. You can still buy them (at least as of 2023) but almost all had 4 "D" cells with a spacer at the bottom. I used the lantern batteries with screw
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wn4isx <wn4isx@...>
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#99798
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Re: Batteries
I must have made a typo I meant *Leclanché cell.*
**https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leclanch%C3%A9_cell**
**Up until alkaline cells replaced the *Leclanché, the *Leclanché was the standard "D" "C"
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wn4isx <wn4isx@...>
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#99797
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Re: Batteries
My father wore a hearing air starting in the late 30's. I recall him having a 45 volt and 1.5 volt battery that he would put in his right rear pocket. These powered the vacuum tubes in the aid. When
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Dan Kahn
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#99796
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Re: Batteries
I vaguely remember studying Leclanche cells in physics lessons at school in the late 1950s.
Leon Heller
G1HSM
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Leon
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#99795
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Re: Batteries
ANDY IT IS A VERY OLD COMPAGNY IN FRANCE
SEE HERE
https://www.leclanche.com/fr/a-propos-de-nous/notre-histoire/
FRANCOIS
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F1CHF
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#99794
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Re: Batteries
Thanks Roy for the book.
It is interesting to see the old descriptions.
Bertho
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Bertho
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#99793
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Re: Batteries
Well, that sure got screwed up...
The correct URL is:
http://rtellason.com/books/TGBOCE.pdf
--
Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this
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Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
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#99792
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Re: Batteries
My grandfather told us of his experience making a carbon arc lamp.? Probably around the turn of the last century.
The street lights in town were carbon-arcs.? Periodically they replaced the old
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Andy
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#99791
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Re: Batteries
My vague recollection was around 45 V.? But you might have two in series, for 90 V.? I am not sure but I think that was what our AC/DC radio had.
Or maybe if you used 22.5 batteries, then two made
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Andy
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#99790
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Re: Batteries
I never ever heard of "Lelanche" cells until yesterday.
They weren't common, were they?
Andy
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Andy
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#99789
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Re: A downright amazingly stupid LED headlight, I'm impressed.
Insanity!
Ditto. When I became more aware of some of the higher-powered LEDs out there I ordered some. I got 10 10W units, the kind with 3 rows of 3, and so far I've built 3 lamps using these,
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Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
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#99788
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Re: Batteries
I used to do that when I wanted to do electrolysis, the ones out of D cells made dandy electrodes. And of course the black stuff in there was a handy source of manganese dioxide, I forget what that
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Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
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#99787
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Re: Batteries
Yeah, lots of details in there. I'd forgotten about how many screwy camera batteries I used to deal with back when, I think that our last film camera (not used in ages) used one of those. And in
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Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
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#99786
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Re: Batteries
I've wondered about that, never saw an A or B cell.
(...)
I remember those, REAL bright light. You could get those batteries with springs on top for contacts, or screw terminals. Didn't know
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Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
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#99785
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Re: Batteries
I don't much care for that site. They'd had a couple of my pages on there, and got takedown notices from me because of it. They want you to sign up to download, but taking a screenshot was good
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Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
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#99784
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Re: Batteries
Talk about an EMI source that exceeds FCC Part 15 radiation limits!
Bet it wipes out RF from DC to light.
I had a pair of welding goggles for use with mine and still couldn't look directly at the
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wn4isx <wn4isx@...>
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#99783
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Re: A downright amazingly stupid LED headlight, I'm impressed.
A friend's daughter is a trauma physician and calls motorcycles donorcycles.
I had too many close calls to count, only one was my fault and that one proved God does look out for fools and
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wn4isx <wn4isx@...>
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#99782
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Re: A downright amazingly stupid LED headlight, I'm impressed.
Thank you for correcting my mistake. Proof one shouldn't take codeine cough syrup and post.
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wn4isx <wn4isx@...>
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#99781
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Re: A downright amazingly stupid LED headlight, I'm impressed.
BTW, your URL is missing a DOT after www.
Here is the "corrected" URL.
https://www.tesladownunder.com/WorldsBrightestBike.htm#BikeLights
Ken W7EKB
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Kenneth G. Gordon
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#99780
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Re: A downright amazingly stupid LED headlight, I'm impressed.
I rode/drove/almost-died-more-than-once on motorcycles for awhile when I was much
younger and a bit more stupid than I am now.
I have an over-worked guardian angel.
Harley-Davidson. Almost big
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Kenneth G. Gordon
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#99779
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