15 Aug
2006
15 Aug
'06
3:26 p.m.
> I have mini-Maglites in my toolkit - three of
'em, and they all get use; I
> work in the dark a great deal, but that's another story * - and recently
> had the unpleasant surprise of having one of the "regular" batteries
> corrode and die (and the batteries had been replaced less than a month
> earlier). This did an _astonishingly_ effective job of destroying the
> interior of the Maglite as well, the acids eating away the Maglite's
Actually, I thought the electrolyte was alkaline....
shell in a way
I literally didn't think was possible. Defective battery?
Some other problem? We may never know.
What brand of battery? I haven't seen a battery fail like this
in decades. Was the light stored in a harsh environment?