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The battery and the cap contacts connect inside the housing here. Now, the obvious solution to hard to find batteries
is to convert it to take normal common batteries, right? My first thought was to tap off one of the AAs in the
illuminator pack, and have a short cord with a QD leading up to the original battery holder.

First thought: Make a nonconductive "dummy" battery out of delrin, with the appropriate contacts embedded within,
and attached to the cords. Problem here was the cap gave no easy way to run wires out of it, I was reluctant to mod or
even ruin the cap, and making the various body and contacts to the dummy started looking like a fair bit of effort.

Second thought, just solder wires to the contacts in the cap. Problem here is they're not easy to get to, and again, no place to
run the cords out. Plus I'd have to have the battery in- or a conductive dummy- to make contact from the cap's contacts to the
ones in the body of the goggles. Third thought, solder connections to the contacts in the goggles. I saved that for a last resort.





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