fmerkel
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A discharger/charger can do it but ONLY if it has enough power for the application, AND is designed to do a pack. Frankly, most won't.
[tbone] has the appropriate test. It's specific to the light, it's simple, it works, and costs nothing but some time....which a discharger would be doing anyway.
People like numbers but they aren't the important story for a pack. If you use a low power discharger/charger the numbers will be abnormally high anyway since it cannot duplicate the pack draw as [PilotMaverick] indicates.
Plus they all use resistance to do the job the numbers are skewed up since the draw goes down as the voltage decreases.
There are devices that will do the job but the good ones are expensive and there's a learning curve.
[tbone] has the appropriate test. It's specific to the light, it's simple, it works, and costs nothing but some time....which a discharger would be doing anyway.
People like numbers but they aren't the important story for a pack. If you use a low power discharger/charger the numbers will be abnormally high anyway since it cannot duplicate the pack draw as [PilotMaverick] indicates.
Plus they all use resistance to do the job the numbers are skewed up since the draw goes down as the voltage decreases.
There are devices that will do the job but the good ones are expensive and there's a learning curve.
