[ale] [OT] any experience with low self discharge NIMH batteries

[Jim Kinney]

On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Mike Harrison <cluon at geeklabs.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 20 Mar 2013, Scott Plante wrote:
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>> Just a thought to throw out there--you wrote: "I'm going to stick with my
>> old reliable proven technology for now"--have you
>> considered supplementing with oil or kerosene lanterns? I'm with you on
>> the LEDs for flashlights you carry around, but you never
>> have to worry about oil discharging (like batteries) in the cabinet and
>> the light is quite nice. Warm light, yet bright enough to
>> read from, and many, many hours of light are easy to store pretty much
>> indefinitely.
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> I have a flashlight fetish, I admit it. I must own 20+?
> They are in my camper, truck, each car.. several in my house.. All of my
> caving lights.. Almost all are now LED source...
> Even my huge "club", a 4D cell maglight by the bed is LED.
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> and yet, you make a point and it's why in my "Zombie Apocolypse Kit"
> in the garage is a large really nice multifuel solid brass german (I can't
> spell the brand) industrial-ish lantern with spare wicks and 2 gallons of
> white gas. It'll also run gasoline, kerosene and I'm told with a little
> mod-kit, even diesel (heavy parafin?).
>

Only 2 gal?!?!? I've got 6 :-)  ZA gonna last a while...  add in the
coleman lantern and stove...

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> I've used it exactly one time, when after the tornadoes that hit the area
> we had 6 days without juice and a pot of chili was slow cooked with a
> rigged up pot bracket over it.
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> I also store some lamp oil and lamps for the same reason.
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> Pretty useful, and worth remembering how well that thing works.
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