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broadgage · 30th Oct 2016, 4:26 pm

The large Eveready hand lamps that take two PJ996 batteries are indeed a quality product, I have several of them.
No longer manufactured, but good examples turn up regularly on ebay.

The recommended bulb was 5.4 volt, but I used the 4.75 volt bulbs intended for a single PJ996 or 4 D cells. This noticeably improved the light though at the cost of rather frequent bulb replacements.
An LED bulb is a good upgrade, indeed one supplier of these LED bulbs features an Eveready powerbeam lantern in their advert.
A 1 watt LED bulb should give approaching 100 hours service on one pair of batteries.

A particular merit of this design of hand lamp is almost complete immunity from damage caused by leaking batteries.
The batteries can and do leak, but provided that the lamp is stored the right way up, then the leak only affects the plastic base and not any metallic parts.

30th Oct 2016, 4:26 pm	#40
broadgage Nonode Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: North Somerset, UK. Posts: 2,129	Re: Old torches - anyone here collect them? The large Eveready hand lamps that take two PJ996 batteries are indeed a quality product, I have several of them. No longer manufactured, but good examples turn up regularly on ebay. The recommended bulb was 5.4 volt, but I used the 4.75 volt bulbs intended for a single PJ996 or 4 D cells. This noticeably improved the light though at the cost of rather frequent bulb replacements. An LED bulb is a good upgrade, indeed one supplier of these LED bulbs features an Eveready powerbeam lantern in their advert. A 1 watt LED bulb should give approaching 100 hours service on one pair of batteries. A particular merit of this design of hand lamp is almost complete immunity from damage caused by leaking batteries. The batteries can and do leak, but provided that the lamp is stored the right way up, then the leak only affects the plastic base and not any metallic parts.