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    Manufacturers decreasing build quality?

    It seems like everything I buy these days is made cheaper and/or lighter. A lot of the time it is less well made. Sometimes, it's lighter and cheaper, but only in ways that don't hurt the function. Sometimes, it's something that ends up being less reliable or functional than before, but...
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    Thoughts on a "Forever Light"

    Capacitors Some capacitors have limited lifetimes. This is especially true of electrolytic capacitors, which are the type you'd want to use in a light, because they have higher capacity. If you get any antique radio gear, electrolytic capacitors are very often a problem when you try to...
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    Illegal to shine flashlight in fields?

    Never forget, "you can beat the rap, but you can't beat the ride." If the cop and/or prosecutor are jack booted thugs, you can go through a lot of grief, annoyance, and expense, and you can't do a darn thing about it.
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    Techlite Lumen Master from Costco

    I have 5 of these with no problems yet. I'll be interested if anyone else is getting failures.
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    New Costco Cree "tactical" lights?

    Have you bought or even looked at any of them, or are you just innately omnipotent?
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    New Costco Cree "tactical" lights?

    I couldn't find a web page for them, but there's a new version of 3xAAA LED lights at Costco. I'm pretty happy with them. They claim around 150 or 180 lumens. They're 3xAAA in a carrier. The switch is an electronic reverse clicky. Price was a little under $20 for a 3 pack. The...
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    Why is it that so many people need McClicky's and Malkoff's?

    The mass market manufacturers have economy of scale. If you have some great flashlight design, you can save a lot of money and effort by taking a mass-market flashlight and using some of the mass produced parts in your customized light. The manufacturers are probably not going to be willing...
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    What is the physical princible behind the LED light

    Electrons flowing through a LED emit light as they travel through a certain part of the diode. It involves quantum mechanics, but the electron jumps from one energy level to another and the lost energy produces a photon. A photon is a "particle" of light. Incandescent bulbs emit light...
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    Stanley HID by pass to stay 60W???

    Yes, the brightness drops after the initial burst, but then it climbs as the bulb heats up. Someone should get two lights with roughly equal brightness when hot and see if the initial burst is actually any brighter than the warmed up brightness. I believe the design is intended to match the...
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    White lasers

    A "laser" is "coherent" light. Every photon is the same wavelength and in phase with all the other photons. This is necessarily a single color process. The way most laser devices work (LASER is "Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation"), they tend to produce a small, tightly...
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    I just uninstalled AVG antivirus, now running MS Security Essentials

    Comodo is a powerful antimalware program. I particularly like the way the firewall component works in terms of telling me what programs are connecting to the internet and phoning home. Defense plus also gives me a lot of control over what the programs can do on my machine. It will give you a...
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    Penlight for a doctor

    The question of color rendition is interesting. At first blush, we'd tend to think that a high CRI is good, but maybe not. Maybe some particular light spectra would be better for diagnostic purposes. For instance, UV will show up some things that "white" won't. A monochromatic light of a...
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    ITP A3 EOS reverse polarity protection?

    Turn it on and see if it lights before using it and you know the battery isn't reversed. Your link was broken, I assume you mean this thread. http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb/showthread.php?t=263683 If you're afraid the explosion came from a venting battery, you could probably just...
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    Are my Eneloops starting to die?

    You could probably do the discharge/charge bit, just not the breakin cycle. That is assuming you can get 4 hours to run a discharge cycle. Even if you couldn't get 4 hours straight to run the complete discharge cycle in one chunk, you could still discharge and charge, but you wouldn't be able...
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    What in reality is the good of super throwers without binoculars or a scope?

    Shun the non-believer! Shuuuuuuuuuunnnnnnnn!! Good point, though. Different lights are good for different jobs. A 3000 lumen HID is not the ideal light for changing a flat tire, for instance. All the more reasons to have a selection of different light. I wish more of the high power...
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