Lithium battery packs for $30 each

delidiver

Small Price???
A second head as I recall...
Let's see... $5000 / how many battery packs. (LOL)

Hope all is well Tim - R U going end of Feb?


Louis

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trob09

There aren't enough battery packs out there to get a stable reading out of my old head...

Doing well here in warm Minnesota, hope the same for you. I am headed down for the end of Feb trip. Also going out to the Doria on the Independence II in July....

DeepBlueInnovation

For anyone in Australia, I was recently told about a place in Perth called Siomar who will make battery packs or custom make batteries. I haven't looked into it yet but will be shortly in my attempts to make a new dive torch, will post the results either way. The custom battery offering is the kicker for me - more compact than packs. As I said, haven't followed it up yet though.

RonMicjan

how sweet are you talking mister? will do, but only cause I know two are for Sarah

made 4, dropped one into Dave's meg and its running well, will build up a few more and have you drop me an address, maybe i can shove them into this google earth program and drop them on your doorstep that way?

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tumbler

After getting my meg, I sat around and thought about building some lithium packs, but ultimately decided against it because of the propensity of these cells to vent with flame. I would tend to agree that any scenario that would result in flooded battery compartments would have you off the loop long before the wet batteries became a concern, but I don’t like the idea of having venting lithium batteries anywhere near my loop.

I know this has largely been a problem with rechargeable lithium ion packs used in laptops, but there have been reports of standard non-rechargeable lithium cells catching fire with no apparent cause.

Exploding Lithium Flashlight Batteries? | Doug Ritter’s Equipped.org Blog

Don’t get me wrong. I hate having to change out the packs, but for me, alkaline batteries are safe, predictable and dependable.

Thoughts?

Cliff

Sulac

Hey

Can anyone make a batteryboxs to fit down the battery place on the MEG, so you dont have to tape and put the connector on.

I mean some platic thing where you just click the battery in and the connector is on the plastic holder. like in cameraes and so on.

I hope you knows what i mean !!!!!

Have anyon made that? or are anyone intersted in it?

If I should try to get it made what would people pay for it ? I will probely have to get 500 made do you guys think it will be realistic to sell so many?

Merry Chris

Claus

decoweenie

Yes, I do. And I would pay to save me from having to solder...

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RonMicjan

I might have to say that would be a bad idea, the battery packs are soldered together (or rather now they are spot welded together) to prevent the problem that AP has with battery bounce

I have about 8 extra packs put together now if anyone wants them at $40 each.

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bubnotbub

Hi,
me too.


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decoweenie

I believe with a strong spring or a correct dimension for the lid, that shouldn't be an issue - which the new APD battery box solved the battery bounce issue.

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