Sunday, January 08, 2012
] Aimpoint battery life is stated as XXXXX amount of hours at a specific battery setting. If you leave it on MAX brightness it will dramatically cut your battery life shorter than advertised. Casper507 Mar 2009 USA MN, USA 78 : 0-0-0 : 5/24/2011 12:58:17 So what setting were they on and was that the same setting they were on all the time? You obviously got robbed, Ill trade you a Barka Red Dot for the M4. Gun_Fanatic Dec 2001 USA OK, USA 254 : 0-0-0 : 5/24/2011 3:14:32 My take on this...... Unrealistic may be the word to use, and here's why. They couldn't possibly know the battery will last that long at the time of relase. What they do is use math and previous examples as a sanity check. They know a battery is capable of storing so much energy. They know what the LED would draw. They also know that it isn't likely to run a LED for that long constant on. So they make a circuit that blinks the LED so fast that to the human eye it is always on (not to mention there is a time factor for the LED to wither once voltage is removed). Now for only fractions of a second we are on or off (conserving energy). A bit more math, and wow it looks to last 80,000 hours (or whatever the spec. is). Why is this possibly unrealistic? Math is perfect, and the world isn't. There are always unaccounted for variables. Bad/cheap/old/fluke battery - brightness settings - temperature - and so on. I'd say anything even approaching the specified time is great and just means you had good luck with the battery and used it in the conditions it was modeled after. Someone else may only get 2 years, and the way I see it this isn't a failure. It just means it was used beyond the ideal conditions or had a shitty battery. Now if there is a trend where most people are falling short on battery life, then maybe Aimpoint's ideal usage model was a bit conservative to fluff sales with inflated battery life numbers. Most people I know are amazed when the damned thing is still running at 1/2 to 3/4 of the estimated life (don't know anyone at or beyond it though).
