confusion Battery: Rechargeable Batteries AA LR6 for bicycle lights? I want to buy a set of bike lights and I am considering this Cateye EL530 and TL1100:
http://www.discountcyclesdirect.co.uk/pr ...
But what voltage lights Cateye need? Most rechargeable batteries seem to run on 1.2 volts, while 95% of lights and gadgets running on 1.5 volts and above (if they ever resolve this situation so we can stop throw billions of batteries?), so I'm not sure what to buy.
These are rechargeable alkaline 1.5 V:
http://www.budgetbatteries.co.uk/20790/p ...
But should I buy alkaline batteries or NiMH? NiMH batteries are supposed to be much better, but when I read the fine print as NiMH 1.5v is marked as 1.2 volts!
Why do they have to make things so complicated?
I use NiMH batteries and they do very well for me.
For the "real" I use lighting systems that use systems 6V rechargeable battery a car like giving + 15W.
Even better, I use dynamo lighting systems which do away with batteries all together, outside the system stand light.
A combination of the dynamo and the system provides enough lighting 6v motorists to dip their headlights when they may have forgotten to do so.
You can use rechargeable alkaline batteries. I have a lite Bell uses 4 AAA batteries and it works well. Simply LED 1.2 volts to operate anyway. I still have my batteries to run most courses before recharging, if you recharge them before they get crushed they get a memory and will not last long.
regular batteries down their blood while they get used Alkalis tend to keep the same volatage until they must recharge.
Use NiMH hybrid.
I use a Cateye lamp similar to the same back. The output does not 12v LED and battery hybrids do not lose charge over time as the rechargable earlier.
Posted on March 28, 2010.
