9V Battery or 2 x AAA with 9V Converter

Lantern batteries are old fashioned things with very limited sales, and battery manufacturers aren't going to upgrade their capacity without good reason, so they use older, cheaper cells in the lantern batteries.

I have no evidence for this, but it seems likely.

Non sequitur: I once bought a very cheap cordless drill that looked as if it would have something like six D cells in the battery pack. It had six AA cells, some sticky tape and some wood.

Cheers

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Syd

Yes, you have no evidence. Lantern batteries are alive and well. They are best bought with the low priced lantern at well under $5 and the entire unit disposed of when depleted. These lamps are big (easy to find when needed) and give off a large beam of light. They are readily available in many stores. I don't think they are in any danger of going away.

D cells are used in some lantern batteries rather than the larger cells designed for this size battery because they are cheaper. So the consumer doesn't get what they pay for unless they know to check them before they buy. I always balance a lantern battery on my finger to see if one end is empty.

Does that mean D cells are going away? I don't think so.

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Rick

Certainly here in the UK you can buy AA and AAA anywhere, C and PP3 (small 9V) in most places, D in many and lantern in few.

I have nothing that doesn't use AA, AAA or PP3 (or fixed rechargeables).

It must be different over there.

Cheers

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Syd

+1 If anything is going to go it is C cells.

I'd be inclined to say that AA, AAA & PP3 are almost everywhere that sells batteries but C & D are less common. PP9, AD28 and more obscure ones are basically online order only these days.

Wilkinsons have a pretty good range including lantern cells.

Not even large torches?

The ones I miss are the large 4.5v (cells approx 1.5xD size) with big carbon rods in and brass terminal screws that were around in my youth.

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Martin Brown

No, all my torches are small LED things and use 3 or 4 AA cells, but I'm not a policeman or a night watchman and don't use my torch for battery.

They were (door)bell batteries, I think. There was also a 3V battery used for bicycle lights - two cells side by side with a brass strip contact on top and another on the front which contacted the bulb terminal.

And a cylindrical 6V(?) with press studs on the ends.

Cheers

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Syd

On a sunny day (Thu, 15 May 2014 15:36:19 +0100) it happened Syd Rumpo wrote in :

The world is changing, here one of my flashlights, with battery out:

Li-ion, rechargable, 3.7V 3.2Ah, LED, has several brightness stages, flashing mode too, came with charger. I have several smaller Cree ones, those all have Eneloop AAA those, and will still work a year after charging. All ebay stoff. The big Cree has as defect that it melted the plastic around the LED when I left it on to test howw long the battery lasted. Now the beam looks a bit different...

But anyways, Li-ion is the future for now.

It is. I have a few flashlights with Cs and Ds, and a portable radio with Cs. I had a radio that used Ds but its LCD screen died (so went in the dump). I prefer AAs, for most things and give big negative points to anything using AAAs.

I have a Bushnell radar gun that uses C cells, and a clock that uses C cells to move some decorative gears whilst the usual AA runs the actual clock hands.

You can get AA to C and AA to D cell adapters (mainly for rechargables) but I still see C and D primary cells on the shelves.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

The standard "Five (D) cell Maglite" which doubles as a cudgel for bludgeoning reprobates.

There are still "lantern batteries" but they are not very cheap. At some point it might be cheaper to buy a car battery which comes with a goodly amount of charge.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

There were (??) 1.5V ones that we used to start glo-plug model engines. Cylindrical with brass binding posts.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

You may be thinking of the 9V cylindrical PP4 /226/1600?

piglet

Originally used to start full size motors too (such as the one that site id dedicated to)

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Yep, good old No 6 cells. The designation is quite visible in the photo.

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