Potential bore light found
03-23-2007, 09:36 AM
#12
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: WC FL
Posts: 26,323
RE: Potential bore light found
ORIGINAL: alleyyooper
Bend A Lite, uses 3 double (AA) batterys.
Al
Bend A Lite, uses 3 double (AA) batterys.
Al
The reason I have all them scopes and different lights is because I was in the Safe & Vault business for over 35yrs.
03-23-2007, 01:21 PM
#13
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: MICHIGAN
Posts: 2,568
RE: Potential bore light found
OK, I picked up one of those brass bore lites that are about an inch long with a knurled knob on one end and Knured thingyplus bulb on the other.
I took it apart to check it out.
It is not a bulb. It is an light emitting diode. You can get one at radio shack. Bend one leg to touch the side of the case and the other one threw the plastic sheild to touch the battery.
Can't remember if the current only flows one way on them or not, Ask the radio shack tec.
I took it apart to check it out.
It is not a bulb. It is an light emitting diode. You can get one at radio shack. Bend one leg to touch the side of the case and the other one threw the plastic sheild to touch the battery.
Can't remember if the current only flows one way on them or not, Ask the radio shack tec.
03-23-2007, 07:15 PM
#15
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Idaho
Posts: 11,703
RE: Potential bore light found
alleyyooper
Key word - diode - it requires correct current flow...
And i have replace mine, but it is about 4 years old...
Do not drop them straight down insert them with the barrel horizontal and slide it down slowly.... Diodes break...
It is not a bulb. It is an light emitting diode.
And i have replace mine, but it is about 4 years old...
Do not drop them straight down insert them with the barrel horizontal and slide it down slowly.... Diodes break...
03-23-2007, 08:13 PM
#17
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Idaho
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RE: Potential bore light found
yeoman
I am not quite sure what you are asking... but mine takes 2 - 1.5vdc batteries in series - so the light operates on 3v.
You can check a diode with an ohmeter. If you put the leads across the post one way you should get deflection on the meter and if you put it the opposit direction there should be no deflection. The ratio is about 10 to 1. Start with the ohmeter on R1 and work up the scale til you get defection - check both directions. Most often a diode shorts giving deflection with both leads... although if you drop it - it will become an open - no deflection either direction.
Is there an easy way to test the type of battery that goes in those lights? I have a multitester. Will it work on those? Anyone know the DC amperage of them?
You can check a diode with an ohmeter. If you put the leads across the post one way you should get deflection on the meter and if you put it the opposit direction there should be no deflection. The ratio is about 10 to 1. Start with the ohmeter on R1 and work up the scale til you get defection - check both directions. Most often a diode shorts giving deflection with both leads... although if you drop it - it will become an open - no deflection either direction.
03-24-2007, 06:46 AM
#18
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: MICHIGAN
Posts: 2,568
RE: Potential bore light found
To test battery voltage with a DVM place one probe on one side of the disk and the other probe on the other side. The battery if a disk should have a voltage rateing on one side of it.
Al
Al
03-24-2007, 05:13 PM
#20
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: MICHIGAN
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RE: Potential bore light found
Darn pockets, always eatting things.I can't read that small of print on the battery I have. I'll get the magnfier in the morning and see if I can read the number that way.
Elder eyes ya know, even bifocals don't work..Al