AGM Rattler battery ?

DANNY-L

DANNY-L

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Recently bought a new ts25-384 installed 2 new surefire 123 batteries and played around with the scope to see what it was about after dark ( about and hour total) then mounted and zeroed at 25yds. I put it away for a couple weeks and took it out to sight in and the batteries were dead so should they be removed after use? This is my first thermal.
 
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Batteries will drain in my Pulsar Apex thermal if left in it for very long. I have the same Rattler but haven’t left them in to know, but I figure it will drain over time too. Now I just remove them.
 
I've had problems with Primos flashlights, batteries leak in them for some reason(aluminum body blood tracker) and Primos has no customer service.
Does the wireless comm drain units if you don't disable?
 
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An hour playing with it, then how ever long it took to zero at 25 yds, good chance you were towards the end of that set of batteries anyway. Thermals take a lot of juice. I and most run external power banks for this reason. No batteries in the scope at all, and you can turn the power banks on and off. The guys I know that do run internal batteries have gone to rechargeable and carry extras with them for a one night hunt. Some of the new thermals are now coming with two sets of batteries, one internal and not replaceable with the second set being changeable in the field. This allows you time to run on the internal until you can change the replaceables and not completely shut down. The screen actually has two battry bars showing the levels of both.
Again, Thermals take lots of juice, hope this kind of helps...
 
Originally Posted By: DANNY-LRecently bought a new ts25-384 installed 2 new surefire 123 batteries and played around with the scope to see what it was about after dark ( about and hour total) then mounted and zeroed at 25yds. I put it away for a couple weeks and took it out to sight in and the batteries were dead so should they be removed after use? This is my first thermal.

I have the same scope and my policy is to remove batteries from any scope when they are not being used. Most likely the batteries were already run down from use like some here are suggesting.

The Rattler has a setting for either standard or rechargeable CR123 batteries and I now use rechargeable batteries in mine. The standard batteries are rated at 3.0V and most of the rechargeable batteries are rated at 3.7V so just go into the scope menu and set the voltage accordingly.

As a side note......I think you will like the scope. I think it is a great bang for your buck unit and a good first choice for guys like yourself. I use mine as a scanner a lot of nights.

I have also had a blast with the TS25 on different weapons. It is so light and small it was a good match for my suppressed .22 upper, and I laid 5 hogs down over a corn pile with subsonics out of my truck bed at 25 yards one night last summer.


 
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Kind of what I was thinking, I put the new ones in an when done just a few turns of a screw and removed. thanks guys.
 
I have run into similar problems with li batteries. Some batteries last a long time others do not. One thing I recently noticed when I received a super yoter, was the batteries were full when I first turned it on. Within 5 minutes the battery indicator showed 50%. 5 minutes later showed dead. I turned it off and the next day the indicator showed 90%. Ran it another 1/2 hour and batteries were dead. Next set of batteries I got about 6 hours of run time. This was with surefire 123's. Almost seems like new units take more energy during initial startup. It seemed like my other thermal did this as-well. But who knows, I could be imagining all this. My worst luck has been with energizer 123's.
 


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