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Flashlight Power Conservation Hack

asdfasdfas The object of this hack is to keep the batteries from touching each other inside the flash light untill you want to use it. Once you prepare the flash light, the batteries will be able to retain their charge much longer when not in use, than tradionally expected. So if you are one of those people whos power whent out and when you reached for the Flash light it was dim, or worst, Dead.... Then Here is a quick tutorial of how to achive this with stuff you probably have laying round the house.

	The Supplies sdfThese are all the supplies that you will need. The Flash Light Batteries Clear Packaging Tape A Sharp Cutting Knife A ruler (Optional) Something To Drink (Optional) Camera Man

Measure Since this works for any flashlight regardless of the battery size, you have to measure your perticular battery's diameter.

	Lenght of Tape Needed Once you have measure the diameter you can easily get the circumference, and how much tape you will need if you multiply it by 3 or by 6 if you have a large flashlight that requires C or D batteries and/or weak tape (which will require reinforcement). In my case, however, I only used enough tape to wrap around the batteries(Batts) once around.

Cut The tape You can easily cut the tape by attaching the sticky side to a table then pulling on it till its the desired lenght. In my case it was 4.65" (1.5" X 3) but I cut at 5" just to have more to work with while wrapping. You might as well leave it there till you need it. For a regular flash light that has 3 batts inside you will need 2 pieces of tape. One for where ever two batts meet.

asdfasdfOnce you have all the pieces of tape that you need cut, you can wrap the Batts with it. There are several ways to get the tape around the batts but I preffer putting the tape sticky side up on a table by by putting the very tips of both ends stuck to the table. I also used the metal ruler, which has a cork backing to it, as the seperator. My ruler is 1/32 of an inch (0.0793) thick, I think this works best as it gives visually notable distance(for periodical inspections) and its short enough to where the clear tape maintains the most rigidity. Yes, I know too technical, but I rather be thorough for those of you who ARE wondering.

asdfasdfYYes, The tape is the only thing supporting all tree batteries together against gravity. If you are using three or more batts and/or will store the flashlight in the upright possition I strongly suggest to double wrap the batts for extra support.

asdfasdfAt this point you can either tape the cap to the flash light to the body or you can do what I do and just put the cap's spring to hold it on the rim of the Flashlight. When ever you would like to use the flash light all you have to do is screw the cap back and your flash light will work. And usually after you are done using it, if you unscrew the cap the tape will seperate the Batts once again and keep them from touching thus ensuring longer life..

asdfasdfTThere is quite a bit of history behind this, and I actually did an experiment that lasted five years to test whether this theory of mine was true. Batteries are seriously affected if they are on stand-by-fully-assamble and ready to be used mode for any great lenght of time, but if you put just alittle bit of tape on them to seperate them with out the cap on they can last ten times longer. and the only way the batts are going to reach full life expectancy as indicaded on the purchase packaging, is by not using them. The out put of the If nothing else it saves money and future aggravations when in direr need. I hope that this tutorial saves you money and aggravation. Here is a pic of the Camguy and Me.