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After a few years use my MJ-872 battery is no longer the beast it used to be. I was out last night and after 40mins of use it started showing red.
Other than Magicshine's own batteries is there any other options?
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[url= http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/big_f_d_d/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from= ]Torchy (big_f_d_d on ebay)[/url] or [url= http://www.mtbbatteries.co.uk/mountain-bike-batteries/ ]MTB Batteries[/url] are where I'd be looking.
As above, the batteries are fairly standard affairs. Off the top of my head just over 8V as they are made up of 4 18650 batteries.
Like my Torchy stuff.
All my batteries work with all my lights. The magic shine one is good but bulky. The cheapo ebay ones give me about 50% of the run time so I would avoid.
I fitted a bikeray 6-cell to mine, works really well and means I can run full power all the time for most rides if I want.
I went down the route of getting separate 18650 panasonic cells, a 4x nitecore charger and solarstorm battery holder.
But, as above, there are a few battery packs available.
also - don't throw out the magicshine battery box. It's a hell of a lot better than the replacement battery pouches that you can easily put inside the Magicshine battery box.
also, I have used ebay special 8.4v trustfire based 18650 battery based packs with the MJ-872 bulb - some aren't so good and leave the lamp on a red light all the time - I once had that for about 5 hours!
Well got around to buying a Bikeray battery. However it arrived without a battery pouch. Slightly dubious to how waterproof it will be or am I just being silly?