Topic: How are flashlight battery companies surviving since LED? (Read 101 times)
Sorry, I'm not a special ed teacher. If anyone else is confused, feel free to ask.
Anybody else noticed this? If so, how are battery companies coping?
I would imagine your battery purchases are insignificant to the green energy trend.
But since the battery companies are getting fewer purchase from me, it's likely they are getting fewer from other people. Are they making up for it by getting more people to use more 'flashlights', etc.?
Sorry, I should have said consumer purchases. I'm sure the battery companies would like to leave the personal battery industry and concentrate on the bread and butter industrial uses.
Do you mean that they give their batteries to industry? What are you really saying? And how does that answer the question in the OP?
Anybody else noticed this? If so, how are battery companies coping?
I would imagine your battery purchases are insignificant to the green energy trend.
But since the battery companies are getting fewer purchase from me, it's likely they are getting fewer from other people. Are they making up for it by getting more people to use more 'flashlights', etc.?
Sorry, I should have said consumer purchases. I'm sure the battery companies would like to leave the personal battery industry and concentrate on the bread and butter industrial uses.
Anybody else noticed this? If so, how are battery companies coping?
I would imagine your battery purchases are insignificant to the green energy trend.
But since the battery companies are getting fewer purchase from me, it's likely they are getting fewer from other people. Are they making up for it by getting more people to use more 'flashlights', etc.?
Anybody else noticed this? If so, how are battery companies coping?
I would imagine your battery purchases are insignificant to the green energy trend.
flashlight companies dont care about battery companies, they are separate industries
flashlight companies actually love the LED invention, because now people with old bulb flashlights want to buy new LED flashlights so the flashlight companies get a new round of repeat customers
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its like the car industry, they love innovation too
when cars first had seatbelts they got to sell a new batch of cars to people who already owned unsafe cars
when cars first had electric windows they got to sell a new batch of cars to people who already owned manual window cars
when cars first had cruise control they got to sell a new batch of cars to people who already owned manual acceleration control cars
when cars first went electric they got to sell a new batch of cars to people who already had fuel powered cars
flashlight companies actually love the LED invention, because now people with old bulb flashlights want to buy new LED flashlights so the flashlight companies get a new round of repeat customers
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its like the car industry, they love innovation too
when cars first had seatbelts they got to sell a new batch of cars to people who already owned unsafe cars
when cars first had electric windows they got to sell a new batch of cars to people who already owned manual window cars
when cars first had cruise control they got to sell a new batch of cars to people who already owned manual acceleration control cars
when cars first went electric they got to sell a new batch of cars to people who already had fuel powered cars
I read in a science mag that if you take the shaft of an electric motor, and carefully wind some fine glass cable around the shaft, and zap a spark down the space where the one winding of the cable imbeds between two other windings of itself, that it will run off the spark like it was a real motor. Maybe there is a new market there.
They probably took the same strategy that manufacturers of 35mm photo film did earlier. 
Seriously, all things were made in PRC even before LEDs replaced normal flashlights. The chinese just switched to manufacturing different product.
Seriously, all things were made in PRC even before LEDs replaced normal flashlights. The chinese just switched to manufacturing different product.
I have several flashlights that I have not changed the batteries in for years. It must be because the LED lights use so little electricity.
Anybody else noticed this? If so, how are battery companies coping?
Anybody else noticed this? If so, how are battery companies coping?
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