Help me find Aimpoint batteries!

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Posted: 10/30/2003 1:48:37 PM EDT

So my Aimpoint Comp ML failed the second month long battery test.

I have been to Best Buy, Radio Shack, Target, Walmart, the local watch store, Walgreens, Save On Drugs ... and none of them have the DL1/3N or the 2A76 equal. Radio Shack is suppose to carry it but they don't. I have a "spare" I can steal out of my one of my old cameras but I need to replace it.

Short of going on-line and getting one from 1-800-batteries.com any ideas? The nearest camera store is about a half hour drive ... looks like I'll have to make that trip.

Posted: 10/30/2003 2:26:22 PM EDT

[#1]

Try another Radio Shack. They should have it.

Posted: 10/30/2003 2:27:51 PM EDT

[#2]

hey paul,
does your comp ml have cet technology?
because i have a comp m2 with cet technology and its been over a year now and i still have not had replace a battery, i leave mine on at 8 clicks and never turn it off. maybe you gotta problem with your comp ml. if it doesnt have cet technology, i would highly recommend the comp m2 with cet tech. its been the best cqb sight!
good luck!
meat

Posted: 10/30/2003 2:35:40 PM EDT

[#3]

Quoted:
hey paul,
does your comp ml have cet technology?
because i have a comp m2 with cet technology and its been over a year now and i still have not had replace a battery, i leave mine on at 8 clicks and never turn it off. maybe you gotta problem with your comp ml. if it doesnt have cet technology, i would highly recommend the comp m2 with cet tech. its been the best cqb sight!
good luck!
meat

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Why would you leave it on, or are you doing a B test ?

Posted: 10/30/2003 3:35:36 PM EDT

[#4]

This is a good source for them:
[url]http://www.filmart.com/cgi-bin/filmart/item_list/cat206/Duracell.html[/url]

Or you can buy them for me for $6.00! [shock]

C4

Posted: 10/30/2003 3:52:39 PM EDT

[#5]

I stocked up on mine at Radio Shack.

I dont remember being thinking I was paying too much.

Posted: 10/30/2003 5:28:02 PM EDT

[#6]

My Aimpoint is about five years old and is not CET.

My local Radio Shack is pretty ghetto - if you don't want a cell phone or DirectTV you're out of luck there.

Posted: 10/30/2003 5:34:23 PM EDT

[#7]

WOW! I can buy them at all of those places, plus Safeway, Albertsons, Orchard Suppy Hardware, and probably a few others. It sounds like you need to stock up on a few (10 year shelf life, so little danger of them going dead before you use them).

-Troy

Posted: 10/30/2003 9:55:14 PM EDT

[#8]

I buy batteries for my two M2's at a local Batteries Plus store.

Whenever I go in there the guy asks me if the batteries are for a gunsight. They tell me that alot of wives come in there to buy batteries to send to their husbands that are deployed overseas.

I put a fresh set in on 31 August, and have left them on "5" since then with no problems.

Chris

Posted: 10/31/2003 5:18:43 AM EDT

[#9]

Alternatives to the DL1/3N battery include:

1. two #386 and one #389
2. three D76
3. three 675

jvn

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