What did you use your flashlight for today?

[phoenix1]

Great threadlovecpf I used my EDC Quark 123 to look at fruit (oranges) in the sweat rooms to check on color (green). Used it again later on to get some counts in the cold storage where the fruit is racked on pallets above each other (shadows). On occasion, I might accidently strobe the employees to get their attention:devil: I must be number one, because that is the signal I get:huh:
I always check for land mines when I get home (dog poop), and can't help flashing the neighbors with my TK30 when I'm having a smoke outside. I think they're hiring a hit squad to deal with meoo: I'll sure be able to see em coming I live in a backwater town where most peeps use Everyready, Rayovac, and Maglights to light their way in life. Now they want to borrow mine:eeksign: When I hand em one of my PD1's, they don't know how to turn it on! Pass.

Phoenix1

 

[Locoboy5150]

Anyone have any thoughts on the uneven wear?

The rear calipers could be stuck and the rear brake pads are rubbing against the discs. I've seen that before on friends' cars and trucks.

 

[W.Y.N.I]

Suspects on premises call, I had two lights with me, a Catapult V2 and an Eagletac T20C2 mkII. Burglary at a rather out of the way industrial unit. I used the Eagletac to find our way to the rear of the premises through a cemetary and down a steep slope. Catapult used to sweep search the surrounding bushes and trees quickly, then lent the Catapult to a female colleague who lit up the entire roof of the unit whilst I and a colleague climbed up a ladder and shuffled along the fragile roof beams, me with my eagletac in my mouth (one of my favourite things about the light, rubber tailstanding cap, allows me to do this without chipping my teeth :laughing. Then used the eagletac to search the interior after dropping through the hole in the roof. FYI the suspects then jumped out of a front window into the arms of waiting plain clothes officers :twothumbs

+1 to the good guys, and I could not be more happy with the way my lights performed. Without them we may not have been able to get to the premises and search the exterior quick enough. Good comments on the lights from several officers present. In hindsight, probably wasnt the risk of climbing up on the roof, but alls well that ends well.

 

[kosPap]

Great threadlovecpf I used my EDC Quark 123 to look at fruit (oranges) in the sweat rooms to check on color (green). Used it again later on to get some counts in the cold storage where the fruit is racked on pallets above each other (shadows). On occasion, I might accidently strobe the employees to get their attention

what do you kow...3 summers ago I would use my Rexlight to check on fruits loaded in the cooler truck.....and be seen from the pallet loading machine operatora, otherwise I would be travelling refirgerated to ukraine!

yeah they liked me that much...

 

[fisk-king]

Inspired by Scout24's runtime thread and figured I do one of my own. I performed a runtime test using a rcr123 in a McluxIII ti pd-s mizer on high. Started with a voltage of 4.16v & after 1hr. 58min. the protection circuit kicked in at a voltage of 2.9. Not bad, nit bad at all. This weekend I will run a test on low using a JBS-123(now that's a piece of history that's good to search on ) as well .

 

[tombat]

I handed my Jet I to my (almost) 2 year old to get him to stop crying. Of course this strategy backfired because I then had three other kids complaining that they wanted a flashlight. Guess I need to start carrying more lights with me.

 

[Tomcat!]

Used my E2e with 2x AW RCR123s and a LF EO-E2R lamp extensively while setting up a live video feed in a large hall for the England World Cup game today. The screen was 4m wide by 3m high and the projector was 6000 lumens with a long throw lens. Had to run HDMI and a backup composite video cable under a balcony to the projector on sky hooks, which was fine, but the single aerial feed cable to the digital decoder had to run straight through the middle of the audience of 300 screaming hyperactive teenagers. I used large rubber 'speed bump' cable protectors to cover the 20m run to the mixing desk but if the crowd heaved too far in one direction the cable might have snapped. In case of a signal failure induced riot, my Plan B was to use the handy exit in a dark corner near the mixer very very quickly!

 

[Squishy]

Anyone have any thoughts on the uneven wear?

Rear brake pads almost always wear out more quickly than the fronts, especially if you experience snowy winters. Debris kicked up by the front tires are sent to the rear brake system, rust (and your discs will rust within a day of sitting there) isn't immediately ground away like fronts and will act like sandpaper, and rear pads are often made of inferior quality material compared to fronts as well as being physically smaller.

I love my rear drums.

 

[ninemm]

Used my E2e with 2x AW RCR123s and a LF EO-E2R lamp extensively while setting up a live video feed in a large hall for the England World Cup game today. The screen was 4m wide by 3m high and the projector was 6000 lumens with a long throw lens. Had to run HDMI and a backup composite video cable under a balcony to the projector on sky hooks, which was fine, but the single aerial feed cable to the digital decoder had to run straight through the middle of the audience of 300 screaming hyperactive teenagers. I used large rubber 'speed bump' cable protectors to cover the 20m run to the mixing desk but if the crowd heaved too far in one direction the cable might have snapped. In case of a signal failure induced riot, my Plan B was to use the handy exit in a dark corner near the mixer very very quickly!

Great story!! I'd love to check out the World Cup on that screen. :thumbsup:

 

[Monocrom]

Took along two lego Surefire lights to see which would become my main Go-To light.

In one corner, OpticsHQ/TLS Q5 LED single-output head. In the other a Milky-modded KL1 with a P4 emitter. Both sitting on E-series bodies with E2D tailcaps.

Forget pics of beamshots, I enjoyed the real thing!

Tested out both lights at work. Had to wait until 9:30pm to test them out. (Still plenty of daylight at 9pm. I hate Summer.)

Other than having a more intense hotspot with a bit of more throw, the TLS head lost out to the Milky-modded KL1. Custom KL1 had more sidespill, slightly brighter sidespill, better transition from hotspot to spill, and the KL1 head itself is a bit more compact/shorter. Build quality is also a notch above that of the TLS head.

Still, the TLS upgrade for a stock E2E is far from junk. A worthwhile purchase that I'm happy I made. (Also, if anything happens, you can easily replace a broken TLS head with another one. Good luck finding another KL1 head modded by Milky that has the same sweet beam the Seoul P4 is capable of producing.)

 

[scout24]

Fisk-King- good to know! Saves me doing the same with my mizer... Now I just need to make a chart of m lights and their runtimes...

 

[parker2520]

My significant other has a cat named Alice. A house cat all her short life, she is terribly curious about the out side world. She has corneal displasia(an eye condition where the eyes appear to be all milky white) Alice responds to flashlights for some reason, and follows the beam very well. She got out of the house two nights ago and we couldn't locate her. I flashed my LX2 down a long dark backtrack and Alice followed it right home.She was frightened and hiding under a neighbors house. Great tool.....

 

[John_Galt]

Rear brake pads almost always wear out more quickly than the fronts, especially if you experience snowy winters. Debris kicked up by the front tires are sent to the rear brake system, rust (and your discs will rust within a day of sitting there) isn't immediately ground away like fronts and will act like sandpaper, and rear pads are often made of inferior quality material compared to fronts as well as being physically smaller.

I love my rear drums.

Thanks for the info... Until we got our Scion, all our cars have had front discs and rear drums, so I've never had a case where rear discs wore out faster.
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Back on topic, used my HDS to poke around my attic.

 

[PolarBearX]

used my edc QAAWW to swap the mess from my daughter's old car into her brand new one we just bought for her last night.

..sorry for the hijack, maybe we need a "What did you use your flashlight for last night" thread for those of us who can't stay up all night to post

PBX

 

[parnass]

There were violent thunder storms with tornadic activity in our area last night. The wind speed was measured at 78 MPH. After the worst of the storm, but while it was still raining, I took a waterproof Streamlight 4AA Luxeon 1 watt flashlight outside to survey the damage.

Saw a giant limb down and my apple tree split in half, knocking apart a neighbor's corral fence.

The AC power failed a couple of times during the storm so I used a 2AAA Fenix LD05 penlight and my wife used a Streamlight Stylus Pro and Inova 2AAA Bolt for a short while. The first time the power failed, I was down in the basement and it was pitch black. Luckily, I had the LD05 in my shirt pocket. :twothumbs

 

[Squishy]

Had a tornado touch down 4 km from our house yesterday, took out a barn and silo along with hydro lines and trees. I got excited thinking I would be able to test how well my new Nailbender module cuts through rain, but I look out and it's sunny! :sigh:

I could even make out the top of the funnel cloud, but I guess it pulled away the rest of our cloud cover here and made it bright. I closed the blinds and strobed myself to sleep.

 

[kosPap]

used a flashlight to change the kitchen lamp....

which reminds me of the classic joke:

"how many flashaholics takes to change a bulb?"
" Only one, with 36.884.355 flashlights!"

 

[Lagavulin16]

Fenix LD10 R4 to find my cat.

 

[fishinfool]

Right now my 3 yr. old nephew is playing with several of them and seems to be fascinated and mesmerized. Every time he turns on one that is brighter than the other he always says, "WOW". I think he's a future flashaholic. :twothumbs

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[Illum]

Shaved a couple irritating calluses off my foot using the body of a E2e