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Posted: 8/20/2006 7:59:52 AM EDT
| Specifically AA's in an EOTech-should I pull the batteries if I'm not going to use it for a couple weeks to a month? My only concern is based on experience with flashlights. Over time I've had a few damaged by battery leakage. Now granted they were sitting idle for months if not longer without use but I'm a bit more concerned about a $350 EOTech than a $5.99 flashlight. |
| I left the N batteries in mine, turned it on a few times to play with it and left it on the shelf. Months later the reticle was flashing, indicating low batteries, I was able to duplicate this pattern, now I leave them out of the sight. Especially on NV equipment, it's prudent to remove them, no sense for couple of cheap batteries to ruin the multi-thousands dollars equipment, this advice came to me from Victor, the king of NV and IR lasers. I extrapolate and apply it to flash lights too. |
| It is a good idea to remove the batteries if it is going to sit very long. Also, if you ever do have a battery leak and it destroyed your sight you might give a call to the battery manufacturer, when I worked for Aimpoint there was a guy who had a leak that destoyed his sight and the battery manufacturer payed for a new sight for him. I do not know if that is normal for the battery companies or not, but it worked for him. |
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