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    super waterproofing. liquid gasket type sealant for flashlights?

    What I've found to work best is, depending on the light but it applies to my Solarforce L2's, is that the inside of the tailcap is machined aluminum. What I do is wet sand the aluminum with progressively finer sandpaper until all the machining marks are gone. Then I polish that sanded surface to...
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    Budget LEAD flashlights...

    I'm not saying lead isn't harmful. I'm saying even having worked with lead far more than the average person, my blood lead levels were no more than average. The reason being is that most people are exposed to environmental lead far more than they are exposed to incidental lead exposures. You...
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    Budget LEAD flashlights...

    Take a look at it this way. I have been soldering with lead solder for 15 years. I know old school car fabricators who made lead sled hot rods all their lives out of real lead solder. My uncle has been casting his own bullets for 25 years out of lead. None of us are lead poisoned, more...
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    What P60 drop in will have a beam similar to a P60 incan

    If you're looking for a throwy P60 there's really no substitute for an XR-E. It may be old school but the dome on it makes for a smaller apparent die size and therefore the narrowest beam pattern. XR-E's take more kindly to dedoming than any XP. I know comparing my incan P60's the XR-E throws...
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    Another "designer" light.

    I have to give it some props for looking good and having a dedicated charging base, but as for usefulness I'd pass. http://www.gizmag.com/trioh-flashlight/23229/ One thing is if this designer gave any thought to the engineering and aesthetics he would have put a warm white led to match the...
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    Looking for a 1x18650 XM-L light small enough to be EDC-able: MarsFire A T6, perhaps?

    My new favorite edc is definitely my Fandyfire 2160. Of course there is the obligatory teardown, cleaning and repair/rebuild. But after that I find it is very compact being a cylindrical 18650 light and it's pretty well sealed too. I also replaced the driver with a 1.5 amp 3-mode hi-mid-low from...
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    How many 9V batteries can I connect together ?

    I'd say a cheaper alternative would be to plug into the wall. Get a wall plug cord put a dimmer switch inline with it and on the output put a resistor, about (2000 ohm, 5 watts) in series on one of the output leads. And then run that output through a full wave bridge rectifier into a capacitor...
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    How Large Can LED's Be Made?

    Anything is possible, but the size limitations for growing a single crystal wafer substrate would be about 30 cm. So realistically you're not gonna be able to make things much bigger. Plus current distribution and heat could be a big problem.
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    Car stereo battery lots o $$$?

    600w RMS is not a huge stereo by any means mine is 1200 watts RMS. But dimming lights can means different things. What car in particular is this? It could be your alternator is not outputting it's rated current. You can significantly reduce dimming with a cap, you have a 1 farad. But to smooth...
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    How many of you like to do LIGHT SABER test?

    It's not playing light sabers until you make the sounds, vvvvvvvmmmm vvvvvvvvvmmm.
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    "I had a flashlight but it was dead"paraphrased quote George Zimmerman

    I'm surprised no one mentioned this as it was made very clear early on in the fallout after the attack. The 911 operator told Zimmerman specifically not to pursue Martin and let the cops handle it. By specifically disregarding that order that casts a very suspicious light on Zimmerman for...
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    Zhaga < the LED Consortium

    Maybe Zhaga is trying to be the new Phoebus Cartel. That's actually a pretty quick but interesting read on wikipedia.
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    Fraudulently labeled NiMH AA 'purple' batteries on eBay

    Not necessarily, I have some old nicd's 600 mah cells from the 90's when I used them for running RC car remotes before nimh was affordable and comparing them they are lighter in weight than high capacity nimh.
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    Ultrafire WF-501B or WF-502B?

    Well if you want to go bright for cheap, one of the best bang for the bucks has got to be the Romisen RC-T601 from Shiningbeam. It will put out more lumens than many claimed "1000" lumen lights. And I can guarantee you that no P60 light is 1000 lumens, often the modules use a 1.5 amp driver...
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    Ultrafire WF-501B or WF-502B?

    The throw will be the same if they're both XM-L's light output and pattern is dependent on what kind of led is in the module and the reflector design, smooth reflectors throw more, orange peel throw less but have a smoother beam pattern. If it was between these two lights I'd choose the 502B...
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