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Old Mar 13, 2015 | 11:05 pm
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Originally Posted by _kurt
Having just had a Maglite damaged by old AA batteries, I thought I'd share a reminder.

Does anyone else have a rarely-used flashlight that lives your suitcase? If so, time to check the expiration on the batteries. When they are older and partially discharged they tend to leak. The problem is worse with LED lights since they can run for years on one set of batteries. If you find they are expired, perhaps swap them out for lithium cells which are lighter and better.
I just tossed a few mag-lites for this very reasn. After struggling to get the leaky batteries out I determined it was just not worth the effort.
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