3w tesco torch aa rechargeable battery

[Twenty Inch]

Chuffy what size batteries are you running? and where did you get them?

 

[Chuffy]

Chuffy what size batteries are you running? and where did you get them?

Harrumph....

 

[Twenty Inch]

Harrumph....

I only asked a perfectly reasonable question. Don't know how Baggy puts up with it.

 

[gratts]

My Uniross 2700s fit fine

 

[Tynan]

cheap things tend to have rather poor tolerances and quality control

 

[youngoldbloke]

7dayshop.com 2500s fit no prob

 

[fossyant]

7dayshop.com 2500s fit no prob

Not in mine.......

 

[Tynan]

ffs, they're all different because they're cheap

 

[Crackle]

Rejoice!


Open up the bottom of the torch.

• Remove batteries.
• Look for the white sticker just inside the torch body.
• Scrape this off.
• Your torch will now take Maplins 2500 mh AAs (although you will have to also unscrew the head and LED unit to poke them through when they're spent).

Yay!

Same method, using gp 2700's, ta dah. C'mon Tynan buy one you know you want to

 

[Chuffy]

ffs, they're all different because they're cheap

The case is machined to dodgy tolerances, but the LED is very good and as a torch, they're fantastic value.

 

[jimboalee]

They’re such an easy circuit.

Hard solder some wire to the centre pad of the LED PCB.
Make the negative contact on any part of the unpainted body.

Build up a full-wave rectifier with 4 diodes.

Connect to your Sturmey Dynohub, as on my BSA 20, or any 6V ac generator.

Hey Presto. 3W light forever!!!!

 

[Tynan]

not me, I've become a bit of a tart for kit, and I've spunked out on a joystick maxx, don;t think one of these would look too good next to that

 

[Crackle]

not me, I've become a bit of a tart for kit, and I've spunked out on a joystick maxx, don;t think one of these would look too good next to that

Nice light but you could mount 16 Tesco lights on the bars for that

Horses for courses in 'it. I don't need such a good light but if I ever did the Joystick would be near the top of my list or possibly a Fenix Hmmmm

 

[jimboalee]

Went for a quick ten miler last evening, in the pitch dark lanes between Solihull, Meriden and Kenilworth.

Tesco lamp did well on the Sturmey Dynohub. Saw all the potholes, and dead squirels.

Now a front lamp that is bright enough to pick out a £1 coin outside the Bear at Berkswell, is bright enough for me...

White LEDs tend to make puddles look like black chasms. This one was better than I've seen before.

 

[BentMikey]

not me, I've become a bit of a tart for kit, and I've spunked out on a joystick maxx, don;t think one of these would look too good next to that

You what? Dirty boy!!!!