portable lighting solution, new portable battery pack

catwalk.hudson · May 21, 2011

I read that SLA's are practical replacement batteries compared to Lithium Ion. It's cheaper, price is around USD20-30 while Lithium is at USD90+. Also, SLA's are standard and almost available everywhere. I believe loose and spare lithium batteries are restricted to be carried on a plane. I am not sure though.

Are the manufacturer of Explorer battery packs have plans to go with lithium batteries?

Village Idiot · May 23, 2011

catwalk.hudson said:
I read that SLA's are practical replacement batteries compared to Lithium Ion. It's cheaper, price is around USD20-30 while Lithium is at USD90+. Also, SLA's are standard and almost available everywhere. I believe loose and spare lithium batteries are restricted to be carried on a plane. I am not sure though.

Are the manufacturer of Explorer battery packs have plans to go with lithium batteries?

Maybe in the future. I believe Innovatronix was more worried about getting multiplt, multi voltage strobes to work with their batteries rather than changing the type of batteries that they used.

SLAs need to be on a constant charger and it's not good to totally discharge them. If you let an SLA sit long enough without being on a charger, it'll eventually be worthless. My Tronix Explorer stays plugged in behind my TV.

Cpt.Beyond · May 31, 2011

Although they are heavier, SLA batteries aren't as expensive as NIMH and LITHIUM at 20.00 each. I wonder if they could double as sandbags when strobes decide to become sails though.

Village Idiot · Jun 1, 2011

Cpt.Beyond said:
Although they are heavier, SLA batteries aren't as expensive as NIMH and LITHIUM at 20.00 each. I wonder if they could double as sandbags when strobes decide to become sails though.

I have an Explorer XT SE that I used to weight down a stand with a light with a beauty dish mounted to it while on a moving train. It was effective.

catwalk.hudson · Jun 9, 2011

A video of the new Tronix Explorer mini, test with two Dlite 4 is now on youtube:
I believe this is the 115V model only. I hope to read reviews about the product soon.