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Old 06-16-2006, 10:08 PM
Presidio Presidio is offline
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Default Re: ROAR of the Pelican (CR123 Explosion during use, firsthand account)

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Originally Posted by OutdoorIdiot
Do you have the time to describe in more detail? Or was it essentially the same as LM? I would summarise LM's experience as:

(1) Unsure of the state of batteries (presumed to be matching, but not tested)
(2) Placed in an OLD STYLE PM6 (focussing head, no lamp assembly)
(3) Not held in the hand - i.e. left on a surface while running

How similar was your experience?

Thanks in advance.
This was the older style m6, and was a brand new box of 12 surefire batteries that I had for about 14 months. I was on vacation and had left the light in my boat on the trailer at a hotel it was parked right outside the room and while we were going in the room I heard a loud bang after a WTF was that, I searched through the boat and found the light, still hot, lens in pieces, crud all in the top and bottom of the tube and could not remove the batteries, luckily it was in a small toolbox so no damage to anything or anyone but the light.

This all happened about two years ago.

Last edited by Presidio; 06-16-2006 at 10:17 PM.
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