General WARNING:
TO Avoid Run a risk OF EYE INJURY, Await Abroad IMMEDIATELY IF BEAM IS SHONE DIRECTLY INTO YOUR Eyes. TO Avert EXPOSING BATTERIES TO Burn OR EXCESSIVE HEAT, AS THIS MAY CAUSE LEAKAGE OR EXPLOSION. TO AVOID Hazard OF INJURY TO Optics OR SKIN, AVOID CONTACT WITH Any Material LEAKED FROM A BATTERY. THIS FLASHLIGHT IS Not A TOY. Non RECOMMENDED FOR USE By CHILDREN.

General Battery Care

See links below to alkaline battery care at Energizer and Rayovac.

You recommend alkaline batteries for utilize in all of Mag's AAA, AA, C and D-cell flashlights. Only I would prefer to use rechargeable batteries (NiMH) if I tin. Is there any reason why NiMH rechargeable batteries can't be used in these lights?

With the exception of the MAG-TAC® flashlight that runs on lithium CR123 batteries, all of Magazine'south non-rechargeable LED flashlights operate on AAA, AA, C or D-cell batteries. All of our published ANSI-standard operation data (Light Output, Beam Distance, Peak Beam Candlepower and Run Time) are based on testing with alkaline batteries; and when we ship these flashlights with batteries, the batteries nosotros include with them are alkaline. Nosotros do this because the designs of these flashlights are optimized for employ with (non-rechargeable) alkaline batteries.

Element of group i AAA, AA, C and D batteries standardly accept a nominal output of 1.v volts. NiMH rechargeable batteries in these sizes typically have a somewhat lower nominal output (1.2 volts). Also, the discharge curves of NiMH batteries typically differ from those of alkaline batteries – and so the two bombardment types may behave differently under load.

That said, the flashlights will operate with NiMH rechargeables, and use of NiMH rechargeables will not harm the circuitry nor otherwise damage the flashlights in any way. Yous should not, however, look the flashlights' functioning to exist consistent with our published ANSI data if they are operated with rechargeable batteries. (For example, ANSI Calorie-free Output may be lower, and/or ANSI Run Fourth dimension may exist shorter with rechargeable batteries.) The degree of difference is hard to predict. We have noted variation in the quality of NiMH rechargeable batteries on the marketplace, and if you cull the best-quality NiMH batteries yous might detect that whatsoever performance shortfall is, for your purposes, not meaningful.

Lesser line, if you lot are willing to tolerate a possibly significant decline in flashlight performance, there is no reason you lot tin can't substitute rechargeable NiMH batteries for (non-rechargeable) alkalines.

How long should an LED last? What is its "life expectancy"?

A MAGLITE® flashlight's LED light engine is a permanent component, not a "perishable" or "consumable" item similar a bombardment or an incandescent lamps (either a  vacuum or gas-filled xenon  or halogen lamp based on the production selected). In normal use, the LED should last for the life of the possessor and should never demand to be replaced.

The caption for these statements is a footling complicated. It starts with answering a preliminary question, which is, "How do you ascertain when the useful life of an LED is at an end?" With an incandescent lamp (either a  vacuum or gas-filled xenon  or halogen lamp based on the product selected) (filament) lamp, this question is so easy that nobody fifty-fifty asks it: The life of an incandescent lamp is over when it burns out. The "burning out" of an incandescent lamp is a sudden, catastrophic, consummate failure; in that location'due south no mistaking information technology when it happens. "Burnout" occurs when the lamp's filament (typically made of tungsten, a very high-melting but brittle metal), grows and so sparse and weak that it can't support its own weight, especially if it is jarred. So the filament breaks. When it does, the flashlight can't complete the electric excursion that ordinarily would catamenia through the filament, so if y'all plough on the flashlight, it does non give any low-cal. When nosotros say that an incandescent lamp is "dead," what we actually mean is that its filament has suddenly and catastrophically failed.

Just if we ask the same question almost an LED – "How do you define when the useful life of an LED is at an cease?" – the answer is non near that simple considering an LED typically does not fail of a sudden and catastrophically: There's no filament to "burn out," nor is there any other clear, singled-out event you lot can betoken to and say that the LED is dead. Instead, what typically happens to an LED is that its light output extremely slowly, and extremely gradually, declines with employ.

Much of the literature states that in a typical installation, an LED should perform for fifty,000 to 100,000 hours before its lite output falls to 50% of its initial output. So if we define 50% equally the end-of-useful-life point, and if a flashlight is used for one 60 minutes a week (and even that might exist a lot for a typical homeowner, who would use the flashlight sporadically, occasionally and in short episodes), the LED's "useful life" (as defined above) should exist 50,000 to 100,000 weeks – that is, between one and two chiliad years. Even if the user is a night watchman whose flashlight is really on for four hours a night, v nights a week – which would be a lot — the LED's "useful life" (equally defined above) should be between 1,666 and 3,333 weeks (i.e., between 48 and 96 years).

Also to go along in heed is that the "l%-of-initial-light-output" definition of the "endpoint of an LED'south useful life" is an arbitrary definition, and one tin debate that information technology is much too short: l% of the initial calorie-free output of a high-powered LED flashlight is still a lot of light, and information technology seems hundred-to-one that a typical user would discard the flashlight at that point (even if he lived long enough to achieve that point). For comparison, the widely-followed ANSI/NEMA FL-i Flashlight Bones Functioning Standard (2009), in prescribing how to rate a flashlight'due south "Run Fourth dimension" on a fresh ready of batteries, defines the endpoint of the "useful life" of batteries to be the point where low-cal output declines to 10% — not 50% — of initial output. And then in the view of the commission that drafted the ANSI Standard, 10%, non fifty%, of initial light output is the reasonable point at which to say that the user would likely regard the batteries equally no longer fit for utilize and in need of replacement. If nosotros were to define the end-point for an LED's "useful life" as 10% rather than 50% of initial light output, then nosotros might need to speak in terms of a "useful life" of centuries rather than years.

Nobody would claim, however, that an LED is completely impenetrable under all conditions. It should go without saying that one who uses his LED flashlight as an impact tool or a burn-poker is looking for trouble. And, for example, if an LED were driven grossly in excess of its pattern-rated voltage and/or current, it could fail quickly. Even if an LED were driven somewhat (but not grossly) in excess of its rated voltage and/or electric current over a long period of time, that could accelerate the rate at which its light output would reject. Excessive operating temperatures could besides threaten the longevity of an LED. MAGLITE® flashlights, however, are advisedly engineered to keep voltage and current inside rated specifications when used with batteries of the correct voltage; and means including practiced, efficient heat-sinking are built in to continue operating temperature within rated bounds.

In view of all this, the statement with which nosotros started this discussion is quite reasonable: A MAGLITE® flashlight'southward LED calorie-free engine should be seen equally a permanent component, not a "perishable" or "consumable" particular like a battery or an incandescent lamp; and the user should expect the LED, in normal use, to remain serviceable for his or her entire lifetime, never needing to be replaced.

Every time I put a new replacement lamp in my Mag-Low-cal® flashlight, it burns out. Why?

Information technology sounds like you lot may be using the incorrect replacement lamp for your flashlight. D & C Jail cell Mag-Light® flashlights have unlike numbers of batteries or cells and therefore operate at dissimilar voltages, so each size Maglite® flashlight needs its own unique lamp size. For instance, if you have a 4-Cell Mag-Lite® flashlight and you put a 2-Jail cell or three-Jail cell lamp within, it will burn out very rapidly because the four-Prison cell flashlight runs at a higher voltage than the lamp of a 2 or 3-Cell flashlight was designed to handle. For our personal size flashlights and your data, we manufacture a 2-Cell AA Mini Maglite® flashlight, a 2-Cell AAA Mini Maglite® flashlight and a Single Cell AAA Maglite® Solitaire® flashlight each of which require its own unique lamp.. If you utilise the single prison cell Solitaire® lamp in a 2 Cell AA or 2Cell AAA, the lamp will burn out immediately. Make sure to buy the right lamp for your flashlight. Information technology's marked on the packages of our replacement lamps. If y'all are unsure of which lamp to use in your flashlight exercise not hesitate to contact us at 1 800-283-5562.

I tin can't remove the tailcap from my flashlight. I take even put pliers on it and tried to twist it off, but information technology'due south absolutely stuck. Is this problem covered past my warranty?

When you cannot remove the tailcap to change the batteries, it is probably that the batteries leaked and caused corrosion within. Magazine Instrument does not warrant against battery leakage. If the flashlight has been damaged by leakage of batteries, exercise not return the flashlight to Mag Musical instrument but decide what make of bombardment caused the harm and follow the bombardment manufacturer'southward instructions about how to make a damage claim. For details, run into the above FAQ entitled "If my flashlight is damaged by a bombardment leak, what should I do?"

Are Mag flashlights waterproof?

We consider our flashlights to be extremely water resistant but we don't advertise them to be waterproof.

I can't get the batteries out of my flashlight. They're stuck inside. How do I alter them? Is this covered by my warranty?

When this happens, it probably means that the batteries have leaked and are stuck within the barrel. Ofttimes, batteries will swell before leaking, causing them to get stuck inside the barrel. Mag Instrument does not warrant against battery leakage. If the flashlight has been damaged by leakage of batteries, do not return the flashlight to Mag Musical instrument merely decide what brand of battery caused the impairment and follow the battery manufacturer'south instructions about how to make a harm claim. For details, see the above FAQ entitled "If my flashlight is damaged by a battery leak, what should I exercise?"

Are Mag's flashlights "explosion-proof" or "intrinsically safe"?

Mag Instrument's flashlights are general-purpose flashlights. Nosotros have not had them tested or certified as safety for special-purpose uses under any "intrinsically prophylactic" standard or under any of the diverse "explosion-proof" standards that exist. Nosotros do not characterization our flashlights "explosion proof" or "intrinsically safety" and we do non warrant that they would be safe if put to such a special-purpose use.

Can alkaline batteries leak and damage my flashlight?

Yes, unfortunately, they tin.

All alkaline batteries are filled with a caustic material that tin can damage (corrode) whatsoever device, including a flashlight, if information technology escapes from the battery cell. Given the limitations of alkaline battery technology, at that place is always some risk that a battery might leak under some conditions. There are a number of specific reasons why this might happen. One is a defect in the battery, or concrete damage to it. Another reason has to do with the fact that all alkaline batteries have a self-discharge charge per unit, causing them to gradually weaken and die even if they are in a package on a shelf, or in a device that is not used. Leaving dead batteries inside a device can crusade battery leakage and resulting corrosion harm. Putting new batteries together with old batteries, and/or with batteries of a different type, can as well cause rapid belch, pressure buildup, and leakage. And misuse of the batteries (east.g., past attempting to recharge batteries non designed to be recharged) tin as well cause leakage that tin damage or destroy the flashlight.

As well staying with reputable brands of alkaline batteries, is there anything else I can practice to minimize the battery-leak-impairment take a chance?

Yes, just follow these unproblematic rules:

  • Never leave expressionless or weak batteries in a flashlight, every bit they are the ones well-nigh likely to leak.
  • It is good practice to replace your entire set of batteries at to the lowest degree once a year, even if the batteries withal seem to be performance normally.
  • When your batteries become low (which y'all tin mostly tell by noticing that your flashlight is less brilliant than information technology used to exist, or goes from bright to dim before long subsequently information technology is turned on), replace the batteries – and exist sure to replace the entire set at the same time, with freshly-dated batteries that are all of the same brand and the aforementioned type.
  • Stick to premium brands of alkaline batteries
  • Never mix old and new batteries together.
  • Never mix different brands or types of batteries together (e.1000., don't mix alkaline batteries with carbon-zinc or lithium batteries)
  • Never endeavour to recharge batteries that are not designed to be recharged.
  • Advisedly inspect your batteries before inserting them into your flashlight, and make certain all batteries are inserted correctly (with the + and – terminals oriented as indicated for the device). Inspect your batteries at least once a month while they are in service.
  • Inspect your batteries immediately after the flashlight has been dropped or otherwise has suffered a hard impact.
  • Immediately remove from service whatever battery that is found to be leaking or swelling, or that shows signs of harm to its casing or terminals – due east.g., denting, crushing or puncture.
  • Remove from service any bombardment constitute to be past its marked expiration date.
  • When removing and replacing a damaged or date-expired bombardment, replace all other batteries in the aforementioned set at the same time, even if they appear undamaged and are not engagement-expired. (Again, the idea is to never mix quondam and new batteries together.)
  • Importantly, when your flashlight is to be stored for a month or longer, or when you otherwise expect to utilise it less than once a calendar month, you should remove the batteries and shop them separately – not inside the flashlight.

Given the limits of alkaline-battery technology, the unfortunate fact is that there'southward no completely foolproof way to forestall corrosion harm from alkaline battery leakage. But if you follow the simple rules above, you can minimize the possibility that batteries will leak within your flashlight.

How tin I tell if my alkaline metal batteries accept leaked and damaged my flashlight?

Visual signs of battery leakage and crusty deposits (corrosion) inside your flashlight are a sign of leakage and damage, and if the flashlight is non-functional, this corrosion damage is likely the crusade.

Information technology sometimes happens that batteries become stuck within the barrel and are difficult to remove. If this happens, information technology likely means that the batteries have leaked and take swelled upwardly, and if the flashlight is not-functional, corrosion harm from the leaking batteries is almost certainly the cause.

It besides sometimes happens that the tailcap becomes stuck on the flashlight and is difficult to unscrew. When this happens (and in that location is no evidence of butt crushing or denting), the crusade likely is that a battery leaked and produced corrosion that involved the tailcap threads, seizing of the tailcap onto the flashlight's barrel.

In whatsoever of these situations, the probable cause is alkaline battery leak damage.

Is battery-leak harm covered past my warranty?

No. Battery exhaustion, battery leakage, and flashlight damage acquired by bombardment leakage are all specifically excluded from your warranty. Yous may, nonetheless, be able to get help from the battery manufacturer if a battery leak damages your flashlight. See the next FAQ below for details.

If my flashlight is damaged by a battery leak, what should I do?

Because our warranty excludes battery-leak damage, you should NOT accept or send the flashlight to Mag Instrument'south Warranty Service Department.

What you Tin can do is contact the battery manufacturer to see if information technology has a program to repair or supervene upon your leak-damaged flashlight.

Every reputable alkaline bombardment manufacturer has some form of device damage policy under which you may be eligible to have your flashlight repaired or replaced if it has been damaged by leakage of alkaline batteries that came from that manufacturer.

(NOTE: Information technology is expert practice to write down and remember the make name of any batteries you put in the flashlight. If leak harm does occur, it is sometimes difficult or impossible to get the batteries out of the butt to run across what brand they are.)

Different battery makers may call their device impairment policies by different names, and the exact terms may differ from one maker to another and may change over time. Some of the policies may take special requirements, so it may be important to contact the battery manufacturer without delay if y'all discover battery leak damage. And do non discard the flashlight or the batteries earlier finding out whether the battery manufacturer requires you to submit them as proof of claim.

You should communicate with the bombardment manufacturer before yous transport them the damaged flashlight, and should confirm exactly what their device damage claim eligibility requirements and procedures are.

Data tin can typically be establish on the bombardment manufacturer's website, and/or on its retail packaging for batteries, and/or via a customer-service phone number appearing on its website or retail parcel.

For your convenience we provide the following website links and contact numbers through which you can become more information concerning battery-leak-damage policies and procedures of various battery manufacturers.

Duracell® –

https://www.duracell.com/en-us/techlibrary/safety-data-sheets/

Support Team i-800-551-2355

Energizer® –

www.energizer.com/about-batteries/battery-leakage

Client Service one-800-383-7323

Ray-O-Vac® –

https://world wide web.rayovac.com/SearchResults.aspx?south=warranty%20and%20guarentee

Customer Service 1-800-891-6091 or i-800-237-7000

Delight understand that the battery manufacturers are companies separate and independent of Mag Musical instrument. Magazine Instrument did not create, does not control, and cannot exist responsible for the terms or operation of battery manufacturers' device damage policies and practices. The higher up battery manufacturer contact information, current as of late September 2016, is provided to you lot as a courtesy only is, of course, subject to change by the battery manufacturer.

What Is ANSI?

Flashlight Functioning Testing – The ANSI Standard

In 2009, the American National Standards Institute, in cooperation with the National Electrical Manufacturers Clan, published a standard called the ANSI/NEMA FL ane-2009 Flashlight Bones Performance Standard. The ANSI Standard has become widely accepted in the portable lighting manufacture because it affords a applied fashion to make "apples-to-apples" comparisons amongst different flashlights.

Although the ANSI Standard is non mandatory, Mag Instrument has chosen to follow information technology. That is why, on our product packaging,in our production literature, and on the website, nosotros brandish sure flashlight functioning information in the form of an "ANSI Strip," so called because it uses the officially-designated ANSI logos and reports data taken in the ANSI-prescribed style.

The ANSI Standard defines iv bones functioning categories, and prescribes  official logos for displaying results. The following table lists the categories, and for each ane indicates the unit of measure, the official logo, and the basic meaning of the category:

Calorie-free Output versus Beam Altitude

Judging from questions and comments we receive, the distinction betwixt Light Output and Beam Distance is a source of some confusion. It is important to empathize that these ii concepts – Lite Output and Beam Altitude –deal with quite distinct feature which, surprisingly to many people, don't necessarily become hand in hand. A flashlight tin can have a very high Light Output (measured in lumens), and yet accept a very curt Beam Altitude (measured in meters). And the opposite can also be true: A flashlight can accept a very minor output in lumens and yet can be remarkably effective in lighting up an object very far abroad.

Why is this possible? Because Light Output is just a raw measure of the rate at which a lite source generates light – i.e., how many photons, how much "luminous flux," the source generates per second. It tells nothing virtually how well or poorly that lite is gathered and directed. Beam Distance, on the other hand, is a measure of the maximum distance from which an optimally focused flashlight will cast a useful corporeality of light on a target. The ANSI Standard effectively defines a "useful level of low-cal" by prescribing that the Axle Distance is the maximum distance at which the flashlight volition produce ¼ lux of light. A quarter of a lux tin roughly be described equally the calorie-free level provided past a total moon in an open up field on a articulate nighttime. That'southward not every bit bright as solar day, but it is bright enough to see past – a good, standard, working definition of a "useful level of light."

So while a flashlight's Light Output – its "lumen rating" – tells you aught at all virtually how expert or bad a job the flashlight does at forming a useful beam of light, the flashlight's "Beam Distance" rating is all nigh its ability to course light into a useful beam and ship it in a useful direction. "Beam Distance" thus strongly correlates to a flashlight'south optical quality; whereas Calorie-free Output has nothing whatsoever to do with beam-forming eyes. In fact, to go a loftier Calorie-free Output score, a flashlight would non even need to have a reflector or lens, at all!

Optics Matter

Since the beginning, Mag Instrument has prided itself on its beam-forming eyes — the quality of its precision-designed and precision-crafted reflectors, and the versatility of its spot-to-flood beam focusing mechanism. Loftier-quality optics help a flashlight to straight light in a useful fashion without excessive power consumption – something that the "brute forcefulness" approach of maximizing lumen output cannot do.

Optics and Run Time

High-quality optics tin also play a role in slowing bombardment consumption and prolonging Run Fourth dimension. As LED applied science continues to accelerate, the number of watts of power consumed per lumen of light generated goes down; merely information technology is still truthful to say that the more than lumens you want, the faster you volition consume battery power. Then it is yet truthful, and probably always will be truthful, that excellent beam-forming eyes will heighten a flashlight's ability to deliver useful light while avoiding the need for enormous lumen output and correspondingly fast battery drain.

If I wanted to know the current describe and the wattage of a particular Mag® incandescent lamp (say, the LMXA301 Xenon lamp for the three-jail cell Maglite® flashlight), how would I notice that data?

Each of our incandescent lamps was designed and adult with just one purpose in heed – to operate optimally in the particular flashlight for which the particular lamp is designated. We publish data describing how each lamp performs in its flashlight – for example, our website, catalog and package literature supply calorie-free output, peak beam intensity, beam distance and run time numbers for the three-D-cell Maglite® flashlight running the lamp you mention. All such data are based on testing co-ordinate to the ANSI/NEMA FL-one Flashlight Basic Performance Standard (2009). We do not, however, test for or publish electric current-draw or wattage figures for the lamp itself, as these are not ANSI performance categories.

Just as we do not publish whatever claim, nosotros also do not guarantee whatever rating, as to the current depict or the wattage of the lamp you lot reference.

You may get at least an approximate idea of how much current your detail specimen of the lamp draws when operating in its intended application, and an idea of the wattage and voltage drop, by putting it in the flashlight for which it was designed (a 3-Cell Maglite® flashlight, in the case of the LMXA301 Xenon lamp) with fresh batteries, illuminating the lamp, and using an ammeter to measure the current flow across the lamp terminals, and a voltmeter to measure the voltage, and so doing a wattage calculation according to the formula

Voltage (in volts) times Current (in amperes) equals Power (in watts)

Thus, if the voltage drop is 4.2 volts and the current flow is 720 milliamperes , the power output is 4.2 volts 10 0.72 amps = iii.024 watts. You would, even so, need to look to the accuracy of your own equipment and the correctness of your own technique. Mag Instrument is not in a position to warrant the accuracy or the typicality of whatever current-depict, voltage-drop or wattage numbers you might obtain.

What if I wanted to know 1 of your lamps' wattage, voltage or current-draw ratings for purposes of designing a product that would employ that lamp?

It is confronting Mag Musical instrument policy to provide engineering advice to persons seeking to use Mag Instrument parts or components to build non-Mag devices. And of course we do not warrant, endorse or recommend any such utilise or any such non-Mag device.

You can, however, obtain estimate wattage, electric current-draw and voltage-driblet numbers for the lamp in its intended operating environment by following the procedure described in the answer side by side higher up.

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