My RNB battery did it!!! Went past 30 hours on it last night...

[NealNoIN]

Not sure how much but it was at least 31 hours. I am very happy with this battery!
If I would have had one of these 12 years ago I would have saved myself who knows how much in alkalines and the 4 or 5 sets of rechargeables I've tried
and were very unhappy with (I don't think most would go past 10 hours when they were new and in a couple of years they would be lasting only 4 or 5 hours.
I did about 6 or 7 hunts with this RNB battery over several weeks. Last night I couldn't go dig and there was about 3/5th showing on the scale. So I turned it on
in the house and let it run down. What a convenience to not even need any spare batteries! Thanks RNB!!!
Neal Wright

 

[NealNoIN]

When you see a sliver of discharge on the battery scale you still have many hours of detecting left instead of 45 minutes or an hour like you do with alkalines. I'm guessing about 6-8 more hours.

 

[MikeO]

Yep, just another confirmation about 30 hours is expected/norm. They sure came out with a needed Explorer battery thats for sure.

Hows the hunting in ole CainTuck right now Neil?

 

[NealNoIN]

n/t

 

[Ed (Upstate NY)]

n/t

 

[lloyd0161]

I am too chicken to let mine go that long so I charge it up every eight hours or so of use. I have never let it go long enough to see it budge below 100%. Now imagine if you could put LI batteries in a fisher F-75 which already gets 30 to 40 hours on 4 AA batteries. You may only need to charge them every 160 hours or so of use. Would be interesting.

 

[Hollywood]

My last spring hunt was in March, hunted about 4 hours with a fully charged battery. Did not hunt until a couple of weeks ago. Battery meter showed full, so off I went. I hunted for about 3.5 hours, and the battery meter is still on full!

Hollywood

 

[mascard1]

I have lithium batteries...for my F75.....Only ones ..I found that where 1.5 volts.....and they do last forever.....and some!!!

I am too chicken to let mine go that long so I charge it up every eight hours or so of use. I have never let it go long enough to see it budge below 100%. Now imagine if you could put LI batteries in a fisher F-75 which already gets 30 to 40 hours on 4 AA batteries. You may only need to charge them every 160 hours or so of use. Would be interesting.