Quote History Originally Posted By paddykern:Streamlight® The Siege™ LED Lantern
Put three disposable lithium AA's and good to go.
Long shelf life of lithiums and no leaking problems.
I have three ready to go.
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I have had Lithium batteries leak.
Streamlight Seige's are nice little lights. But if you are going to use them (or any AA light) for this then I would advice using Eneloop over Lithium batteries. My logic is that if you have and recharge Eneloop batteries then at any given time you probably have a few charged up that you can scavenge from whatever device is using them. That way you aren't leaving batteries in seldom used lights. I had a weapon with light in storage and when I pulled it out a year later I found that the Energizer Lithium battery had swelled, leaked and ruined the light.
We bought Eneloop batteries and a couple of Maha Powerex C801 chargers for the kid's toys when they were little. Each time we would buy them we would label them with the month and year that we purchased them. The kids are grown but we are still using the batteries and chargers. The last time that I added it up we had over 300 Eneloop AA's around the house and we haven't bought disposable batteries in years. The batteries from 2008 through 2010 don't work nearly as well as they used to but the rest are still holding up well. I purchased more this year. Even though I don't really need more I figured I can start phasing out the really old ones. So even if we caught "unprepared" by a power outage we can find enough batteries around to power lights for a while.
I also have can also use a cigarette lighter to recharge Eneloops. So even if I run them all dead on the go I can charge them back up.
The Streamlight Seige that I keep in my camper will run on red (as a night light) for three to four nights before needing a recharge on Eneloops. And that is with it being temperature cycled being in the camper constantly.
I hope that helps,
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