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Originally Posted by broadgage
An LED bulb is a good upgrade, indeed one supplier of these LED bulbs features an Eveready powerbeam lantern in their advert.
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Indeed. I replaced the filament MES bulb in my old Petzl 'Zoom' with a Nicelite NL331 LED and it's made a heck of a difference - lasting reasonably well off three AA Eneloops and Petzl adaptor as opposed to the 4.5V 'flat' battery specified. The Bro-in-Law's latest Clulite SLA handlamp has an LED chip at the focal point and it's way brighter than its incandecent predecessor.
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Originally Posted by broadgage
A particular merit of this design of hand lamp is almost complete immunity from damage caused by leaking batteries.
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That's as maybe... What they're not immune from damage from is eejits like me cleaning the case with 'Colclene'.
The best plastic adhesive (which is how the damn stuff should've been marketed!) known to man. The plastic must be polystyrene-based, and it just melted into roughness.
Some of these handlamps were badge-engineered as Exide too.