been a while...
The season is drawing in, and Halloween is just over a week away -
both are time to look at our flashlights -
ones that are useful to have around the house or car for those blackout and emergency situations,
as well as being able to hand to kids...
Enter:
Cost all of $4.47 for the pack of 2, with batteries, from local Walmart - model # EVEL152S, UPN 138514 -
uses a single D battery.
Specs on package:
25 lumens, 60 hours, 1m drop - ANSI/NEMA FL 1 standard -
For FL 1 standard the brightness and battery life have to be with the supplied batteries - which are cheapo "Super Heavy Duty" zinc-carbon.
Size:
compared to cheapo 2D cell flashlights which I bought to host the now legendary MJLED PR2 replacement bulbs
and a real classic 2D Eveready Krypton - a "best Buy" of sorts back in the early 90's I replaced the bulb with a Dorcy 41-1643 30 Lumen 3 Volt LED Replacement.
Heads -
There was also this Ozark Trail 2xAA flashlight (rated 200lumens) I noticed its LED chip was of similar shape...
May have noticed from the pics of the heads - the Eveready 1D has a nice touch of anti-roll tabs -
Comparison beamshots: (Eveready 1D uses the supplied Zinc Carbon, other 2Ds are using alkaline D of varying ages, but were tested to be good)
vs. 2D Eveready with MJLED PR2
vs. 2D Eveready "Krypton" with Dorcy 41-1643 30 Lumen 3 Volt LED Replacement
vs. RayOVac 2D with MJLED PR2
Lastly perhaps a little silly
vs. Ozark Trail 2xAA flashlight (rated 200lumens using freshly charged Kodak LSD AAs)
Perhaps it wasn't that silly after all - this shows the economy Eveready 1D puts more of its light into the side-spill while keeping a "respectable" hotspot.
This results in a much more useful light (for me).
Overall I am pretty impressed with such a cheap flashlight, using a single D cell - cheap enough to giveaway or even be "disposable" -
I just regard it as a bargain.
(note: despite the looks they are NOT water-resistant - as the hole at the back-end of the light actually has a hole/crack into the main body
- pity as it would have been so simple to make the light water resistant...)
One probably could fill that hole with "Plasticine" or similar to make it more water resistant?
The season is drawing in, and Halloween is just over a week away -
both are time to look at our flashlights -
ones that are useful to have around the house or car for those blackout and emergency situations,
as well as being able to hand to kids...
Enter:
Cost all of $4.47 for the pack of 2, with batteries, from local Walmart - model # EVEL152S, UPN 138514 -
uses a single D battery.
Specs on package:
25 lumens, 60 hours, 1m drop - ANSI/NEMA FL 1 standard -
For FL 1 standard the brightness and battery life have to be with the supplied batteries - which are cheapo "Super Heavy Duty" zinc-carbon.
Size:
compared to cheapo 2D cell flashlights which I bought to host the now legendary MJLED PR2 replacement bulbs
and a real classic 2D Eveready Krypton - a "best Buy" of sorts back in the early 90's I replaced the bulb with a Dorcy 41-1643 30 Lumen 3 Volt LED Replacement.
Heads -
There was also this Ozark Trail 2xAA flashlight (rated 200lumens) I noticed its LED chip was of similar shape...
May have noticed from the pics of the heads - the Eveready 1D has a nice touch of anti-roll tabs -
Comparison beamshots: (Eveready 1D uses the supplied Zinc Carbon, other 2Ds are using alkaline D of varying ages, but were tested to be good)
vs. 2D Eveready with MJLED PR2
vs. 2D Eveready "Krypton" with Dorcy 41-1643 30 Lumen 3 Volt LED Replacement
vs. RayOVac 2D with MJLED PR2
Lastly perhaps a little silly
vs. Ozark Trail 2xAA flashlight (rated 200lumens using freshly charged Kodak LSD AAs)
Perhaps it wasn't that silly after all - this shows the economy Eveready 1D puts more of its light into the side-spill while keeping a "respectable" hotspot.
This results in a much more useful light (for me).
Overall I am pretty impressed with such a cheap flashlight, using a single D cell - cheap enough to giveaway or even be "disposable" -
I just regard it as a bargain.
(note: despite the looks they are NOT water-resistant - as the hole at the back-end of the light actually has a hole/crack into the main body
- pity as it would have been so simple to make the light water resistant...)
One probably could fill that hole with "Plasticine" or similar to make it more water resistant?
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