Acro battery life thread

[AMC]

I have a new Acro on a 19 and a 17, with the dot intensity in the upper range (meaning at the level it comes on at or higher), and will see how long they last. Hope at least until April when the 509T is supposed to be available.

FWIW, the info you heard about incremental changes and slightly increased battery life jibes with what Wayne told me yesterday. I have to say, the 7 setting everyone complains about was usable to me in the brightly lit expo center. Outdoors in the desert environment? Might want to bump it to 8.

[UNM1136]

Glad I waited...getting excited for the Acro again.

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[CS Tactical]

(I'm not a vendor until I get my work CC back next week) sorry @LittleLebowski

I have the revised ACRO's in stock if you're looking for one or 3

Oh and the next two that order for the listed MAP price on cstactical.com mention the 3x-C magnifier to get it for free (minus the mount)

[Erick Gelhaus]

Talked to a couple of Aimpoint reps last night: they said Aimpoint is revamping the ACRO to take 2032 batteries, and expect the new models to come out this summer/fall.

Didn't hear that in talking with friends at the booth or off the floor during SHOT.

[Sero Sed Serio]

Didn't hear that in talking with friends at the booth or off the floor during SHOT.

The guy I talked to at the Aimpoint booth at SHOT told me the same thing. Not sure who’s wrong, but someone is...

[CS Tactical]

We have a few updated Aimpoint Acro's in stock! https://www.cstactical.com/aimpoint-acro-p-1

[GJM]

I am about a week into a test of a “new” Acro. Instead of turning it on to a fixed setting, and waiting for it to die, I am just going to use it as a carry gun, turning intensity up and down based on conditions, sometimes off it not carrying it that day, and see how long until the battery dies. I have good BUIS on this 19 and a TLR-8, so I have alternative sighting methods.

I am coming up on two months of this "test," using a new Acro on a 17 and a 19. I decided not to turn the Acros off, and just leave them on a usable setting (not full high) and see how long the batteries last. So far both are still running fine.

[Whiskey_Bravo]

I have had my ACRO since July. Bought it second hand here. It's still using the original battery it came with. I just leave it on. A couple clicks down from max brightness.

[Mike C]

We have a few updated Aimpoint Acro's in stock! https://www.cstactical.com/aimpoint-acro-p-1

What is the difference between the updated versions and the previous model, (please say battery life)? I have a B&T APC9K that needs one of these.

[CS Tactical]

What is the difference between the updated versions and the previous model, (please say battery life)? I have a B&T APC9K that needs one of these.

According to @GJM the battery life has improved since they made adjustments to the intensity settings in the current batch. How much more so is TBD, but it looks very promising


Just found this article on the revised Acro https://www.recoilweb.com/aimpoint-a...5b-157040.html

"While the battery life isn't as big of an issue as many have made it out to be, we would have loved to see some solution to allow the ACRO to accept a larger battery. Aimpoint has spoiled us with battery life measured in years on many of their other models and consumers seem to expect the same level of performance. That said, Aimpoint has addressed the battery life complaints by giving a deeper explanation of how the LED consumes power. Consumers may incorrectly assume that the dot uses 10% of the max power draw on setting one, 20% on setting two, 30% on three and so on. Aimpoint has clarified that as the intensity level of the red dot increases, the power consumption of the LED increases in an exponential fashion.

We wish we could be more technical, but none of us are electrical engineers and only understand the limitations of the battery size in the most basic sense. Smaller battery = smaller bucket to hold the lightning, bigger battery = bigger bucket to hold more lightning.

While the ACRO updates were small, they do make a lot of sense after spending quite some time behind one of the very early ACROs. The most meaningful update that we spotted was the revised elevation and windage adjustments that now actually gave you clicks rather than some muddy, vague bit of resistance on the original that feels like it was intended to be a click … possibly. The more positive clicks will undoubtedly make zeroing easier rather than guessing if that was a click you felt or if you were imagining it."