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When will someone build a light with a Bat. level indicator?... it sure would extend the life of our lights with fewer unneeded chargeing cycles.

Maybe i just answered my own question.

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I cant speak for other light builders John but, it would just be one more thing to break and another drain on the battery. Some of the Chinese lights have them now.

I can tell you what I tell everyone about the HD. I use a linear driver and 3.7 volt lithium ion battery. What that does vs the 7.4 volt and constant current driver is it allows it to dim before it goes dead. Not a hole lot but noticeable. At the end of the batteries charge the light will go real dim and stay like that for about 45 minuets before going completely dead.

What I see over and over hunting with other people is they are burning these lights on high way more than needed. If they would use them like we used to use a light you could hunt all week or longer with no problem.

Every time I'm asked this question about my light I tell them to hunt 3-5 nights then charge and you want have a problem.

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I understand your post look it over twice before I posted this. With due respevt to you THE QUESTION WAS NEVER ANSWERED you gave reasons and how to make your light last longer BUT. the question was and is WHEN WILL A LIGHT BUILDER INSTALL A BAT LEVEL INDICATOR . To me that is a valid question and a good one also.

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John, I think you did!

Had a conversation last night with a friend that builds lights, about these new tiny battery packs, amp hours, charge time, battery life, ect.

My question is when are light makers going to make a light that you can change batteries in the woods.
I would guess that burn time on high for most of these LED's are about 4 hours and maybe 40 hours on low.
Should be plenty of battey life for most folks and maybe enough to hunt about 3 nights before charging.
But those of us that have a few years under our belts in the coon woods have had times when we cut the hunt short because of a dead light.
So what about making a light that comes with a small waterproof battery cover ( like a Garmin ) with a battery that just plugs in.
You'd have to have an additional battery with a charging case and maybe a split pigtailed charger so you could




charge both at once. Unplug the charger and leave the






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if I am not mistaken K light does you can buy a extra Bat for there XL and the other cap light and change it in the woods but I have never come close to running mine dead and I only charge it once a week hunting 3 or 4 nights with it, you would have to wear it on a belt or put the Bat. in your pocket unless you took tools with you to take it off the hat





Even if they won't make a battery charge level indicator on the light, they could sure add one to this set up on the charger.

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As you get older and your eyes get dimmer you tend to run your light on higher settings to ward off trips and falls.

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I understand your post look it over twice before I posted this. With due respevt to you THE QUESTION WAS NEVER ANSWERED you gave reasons and how to make your light last longer BUT. the question was and is WHEN WILL A LIGHT BUILDER INSTALL A BAT LEVEL INDICATOR . To me that is a valid question and a good one also.

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Interesting question maybe a device to plug in would work well, then you could leave at home, and test multiple lights with it.

I usually just do every other night. I have a bright eyes light mine also will begin to dim.

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When will someone build a light with a Bat. level indicator?... it sure would extend the life of our lights with fewer unneeded chargeing cycles.

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It sounds like they have one....When the battery starts running low, the light will dim. Mine does that and I know that when it starts to dim, I have to charge it. It is hard to tell on the higher settings but on the lowest setting, it is easy to see when it starts to dim.

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I understand your post look it over twice before I posted this. With due respevt to you THE QUESTION WAS NEVER ANSWERED you gave reasons and how to make your light last longer BUT. the question was and is WHEN WILL A LIGHT BUILDER INSTALL A BAT LEVEL INDICATOR . To me that is a valid question and a good one also.

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There may be some on the market that dim enough to give you a heads up that the Bat. is low but most of the Led lights out do not, they go from full light to nothing.
That hunt 3 nights and charge doesnt cut it, who remembers how many nights ago they charged their light? Heck i cant remember what i had for lunch yesterday.
Enen a little indicator light on the Bat pack that would tell ya when you get below 50% would do the trick.
Id bet my current system of plugging every thing in when i come in from huntin is pretty common, it also shortens the life of these lithium batteries.

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I don't charge mine after each hunt. The only reason to charge after each hunt would be if you're hunting from dark to daylight.

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Originally posted by Doug Johnson
John, I think you did!

Had a conversation last night with a friend that builds lights, about these new tiny battery packs, amp hours, charge time, battery life, ect.

My question is when are light makers going to make a light that you can change batteries in the woods.
I would guess that burn time on high for most of these LED's are about 4 hours and maybe 40 hours on low.
Should be plenty of battey life for most folks and maybe enough to hunt about 3 nights before charging.
But those of us that have a few years under our belts in the coon woods have had times when we cut the hunt short because of a dead light.
So what about making a light that comes with a small waterproof battery cover ( like a Garmin ) with a battery that just plugs in.
You'd have to have an additional battery with a charging case and maybe a split pigtailed charger so you could charge both at once. Unplug the charger and leave the extra battery in the case and slip it in your pocket.

Even if they won't make a battery charge level indicator on the light, they could sure add one to this set up on the charger.

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I think the new one Nite Lite has out has a battery life indicator on it ?

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If you forget to turn it off and put your light up. In 12-15 days with the meter running your battery will be completely dead. Thats if it was wired to be turned on and off. That being said it would not be a big deal to put one on if there is room in the box.

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Why can't they have adjustable beams and flicker switches like the old Nite Lights too? I'd love to switch my HD from flood to spot.

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Why can't they have adjustable beams and flicker switches like the old Nite Lights too? I'd love to switch my HD from flood to spot.

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To do it correctly you have to use an aspherical lens instead of a reflector. Depending on the size of the reflector you would need somewhere around 1 3/8 inches of travel in and out. If you just move the reflector in and out all you get is a black whole in the center. I built one and it worked well but this is what I realized. The led just doesnt work like the 5100 heads. On the 5100 heads you had a spot when it was focused, or a flood with a black whole when it was all the way out. The led lights have a spot in the middle and a flood around them. You have the best of both worlds.

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Mike probably has the answer to this... but if I'm not mistaken, most battery level indicators are monitoring drop in voltage, but many of the modern battery types like Lithium Ion batteries, do not have the gradual degradation of voltage, like the old alkaline batteries. They're at nearly full voltage, and then fall off the cliff.

This is why those old beep-beep tracking collars had the shockingly expensive batteries, because they were lithium. Because you wanted your battery to last at full voltage until it just went dead. Otherwise, you couldn't tell if your dog was a couple miles away or was only 100 yards away, but the collar batteries were going dead.

Meaning... with modern batteries, and simple (aka affordable) battery level indicators, you wouldn't know you were about to go dead, until moments before you do! Which as Mike has explained is already apparent by the drastic dimming of your light.

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Im not tech savy, but i know my cell phone has a lithium battery and an accurate gauge, and a new cordless drill that i think has a lithium battery and a button with a little row of lights that show battery level, i assume because you have to press the button to check the level that it does not deplete the battery. The Garmin collars also run lithium Bats. and you can check their levels from a mile away. I figure if the chineese can do it americans should be able to do it better.

Most all of the new tools that run on lithium batterys have what they call a "fuel gauge" i did a quick search on ebay and the gauges go for about four bucks.

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I see they are making LED flashlights with the aspherical lens in them. I saw one in a local gun shop, played around with it and started wondering why the hunting light builders hadn't come out with one. It appeared to work well on the flashlight, but just looking at it, the lens stuck out further than any part of the light and I'm not sure how it would handle the abuse a coon hunter would put it through.

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Im not tech savy, but i know my cell phone has a lithium battery and an accurate gauge, and a new cordless drill that i think has a lithium battery and a button with a little row of lights that show battery level, i assume because you have to press the button to check the level that it does not deplete the battery. The Garmin collars also run lithium Bats. and you can check their levels from a mile away. I figure if the chineese can do it americans should be able to do it better.

Most all of the new tools that run on lithium batterys have what they call a "fuel gauge" i did a quick search on ebay and the gauges go for about four bucks.

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Im not tech savy, but i know my cell phone has a lithium battery and an accurate gauge, and a new cordless drill that i think has a lithium battery and a button with a little row of lights that show battery level, i assume because you have to press the button to check the level that it does not deplete the battery. The Garmin collars also run lithium Bats. and you can check their levels from a mile away. I figure if the chineese can do it americans should be able to do it better.

Most all of the new tools that run on lithium batterys have what they call a "fuel gauge" i did a quick search on ebay and the gauges go for about four bucks.

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John - not denying that, but those are products with either high-tech micro-processing already on-board (like your Garmin and cell phone) or being produced in the 10s or 100s of thousands, like the drills. Meaning they're not super simple components, but are affordable none the less because of the economy of scale.

In the light builders defense, we can all find all sorts of inexpensive stuff on-line but that doesn't mean they're robust enough to put in a hunting light. Or affordable enough for the average coon hunter to be willing to pay the upcharge.

I'm no expert... just playing the "devil's advocate". These are cool features, you're describing. The average coon hunter keeps becoming more and more tech savvy!

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Nite lights caplight has a battery life indicator and a strobe warning!!!

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