PREP Lithium Batteries and other things

RCSAR

RCSAR

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I often buy my CR123 batts from www.botach.com
The price has gone way up to over $1 each!
Anyone know of a place that has a cheaper bulk price?

Here is the info
Rayovac RL123 3-Volt Lithium Batteries 100/Pack
Typical Capacity: 1500 mAh (to 2.0 volts), (Rated at 100 ohms at 21°C)
Classification: "Lithium Photo"1500 mA continuous (3500 mA pulse)

They used to carry Energizer but not now
Also need a cheaper site for bulk Lithum AA and AAA

Also been looking at the Fenix flashlights. I'm impressed!
Any site carry this brand at a cheaper price?

And I need bulk regular Alkaline batts in AA AAA C and D.

Yeah its time to rotate all my batts

Those are my 3 questions.
 
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rmomaha

rmomaha

The Wise Man Prepares
For the alkaline batteries, it is pretty tough to beat the value of Kirkland brand at Costco. You save quite a bit there.
 
B

blueridge

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Wonder if smaller lithium-based batteries will rise in price when increased demand for lithium products occurs as more 'hybrid' vehicles are sold?
 
etc

etc

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I bought a few hundred CR123A cells on Ebay, at 50 cents each. It's the Panasonic brand.

In terms of energy stored, Lithium cells have more of it than Alkalines, more bang per buck, thus cheaper.

They don't leak like alkalines.

The other serious advantage of Lithium, CR123A or AA Energizer is that they will work in very cold weather when everything else stops.
 
Wise Owl

Wise Owl

Deceased
Sanyo has some new batteries called Eneloops. They are recharable and supposed to be the best so far. We also use the copper top Duracel rechargables with great success.
Looking for a better charger right now for a decent price. Needs to do more than AA's and AAA's tho as we also want to get rechargable D's for our big maglight.

We have an older energizer charger but it takes 15 hours to charge 4 batteries and you have no idea whether they really need all that time or not. No way to find out with it. Dh bought a tester last week and is all fired up for a better charging system now as we have different types of rechargables all needing different amounts of time to charge them.
So, he is studying up on all the chargers. After 5 days of research he is down to about 4 or 6 of them so far. Once he gets it down further, we may have an idea of what to get.

From his doing research we have found out that there are more to these rechargable batteries than just buying some and getting a cheap charger. Lot's of new stuff to learn.
(DH has background in electronic stuff so he is using this winter to study up on it and keep from getting cabin fever in this wicked cold weather.)

Lithium Ion batteries are really nice also. They rock in the cold weather while alkalines like etc said, die too quickly. That was one of the reasons I wanted a headlamp that used lithium batteries in it. It's minus 11 outside right now and I need something to walk dogs at night.
 
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