Originally Posted by
bicycleflyer
Not sure if this is what you were looking for,
When I had my AA version of the 200L I was riding Brevets and was trying to think of ways to increase run times and reduce the stops necessary to change batteries. I can up with the idea of running two 4-packs in parallel. I made a wiring harness from Radio shack snap connectors that would allow two battery packs to be connected at the same time. <snip>
I did that too - or something similar - to run 1 light off 2 packs. It works great, but the weight and bulk to runtime ratio was what led me to rework some existing NiMH packs. 4 decent NiMH cells just weigh less and have more runtime than 8 AAs.