{"id":2369,"date":"2018-02-25T19:43:06","date_gmt":"2018-02-25T19:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ozone.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2369"},"modified":"2018-02-25T19:43:06","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T19:43:06","slug":"replacing-d-cells-with-28650","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ozone.me.uk\/?p=2369","title":{"rendered":"Replacing D-Cells with 28650"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Been trying to consider how to replace my 2D Maglite battery powered to a modern Lithium 28650 &#8211; 5000mah.<\/p>\n<p>2D Cells was 2X1.5V=3V total<\/p>\n<p>2X 28650 Batteries give 2X4.2V=8.4V at full charge, dropping to around 7.6V when flat.<\/p>\n<p>Had to replace the led bulb with a new one, made a couple of battery holders to keep the Lithium cells in the middle of the torchlight, used a 3 X 8mm disk magnets to connect everything together and then had to make a new end cap spring to accomodate\u00a0for the new length of the batteries.<\/p>\n<p>It all works and it is substantially brighter than the previous setup.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Been trying to consider how to replace my 2D Maglite battery powered to a modern Lithium 28650 &#8211; 5000mah. 2D Cells was 2X1.5V=3V total 2X 28650 Batteries give 2X4.2V=8.4V at full charge, dropping to around 7.6V when flat. Had to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ozone.me.uk\/?p=2369\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozone.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozone.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozone.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozone.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozone.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ozone.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozone.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozone.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozone.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}