Re: Battery question.

anon wrote:
> 
> ***
> If you are looking for a LARGE capacity D cell, try the industrial size - 
> these weigh ONE-QUARTER OF A POUND each.
> 
> I had ten of these suckers in series and when I accidentally shorted them 
> the current burned the insulation off of the wire that did it - these are 
> upward of one amp capacity for a long time.
> 
> You may have to do a little searching to find these but they are the kind 
> that are used in the hazardous vapor 'sniffers' that the haz mat people use. 
> (That unit uses six *matched* batteries (if one battery goes bad, replace 
> all of them.)
> 

Well if they're re-charagable, I'll get some of them.  :)