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    Bringing my Eternalight out of retirement...

    Yes, the Eternalight is old technology, 5mm LED, heck, they're not even Nichia DS, why would any flashaholic still use such a dinosaur? Well, there are still things it does better than any other light in my collection, long runtime, dimmable (then again, my NT120-P is also dimmable), and more...
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    Flashlights on a Plane (which to bring?)

    I *might* be getting a job offer at an Apple store in NH, the Genius (technician) position, I stopped off at the Salem NH store to look around and get a feel for things, while I was there, I talked to a few employees about the work environment and such, one thing I found out was people hired for...
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    A Non-Flashaholic Gave me a Light

    I was gifted a cheap plastic 3 LED "taplight", 3 5mm LED's, cheap plastic reflector, a simple resistor dropping the voltage to the emitters and a simple click switch, from my nephew, he's 6 years old, and was quite proud of his gift, so, obviously, I couldn't disparage his gift, it's actually...
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    The importance of multiple backups....

    We're in the midst of yet another snowstorm here in New England, we had a storm yesterday that dumped about 8-10 inches of light fluffy powder, champagne powder in fact Today, we're in the depths of another snowstorm, this one's dropping wet, heavy snow, perfect snowball snow, we now have...
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    The New England ice storm of 2008

    Okay, now that I've had time to settle down and calm myself, I'll detail the lighting instruments used during this five day outage.... 1; Novatac 120P - the 120P was used on it's two lowest levels (0.8 Lumens and 10 Lumens) for 98% of the time, I did step up to level 3 (30 Lumens) whenever I...
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    The New England ice storm of 2008

    We used the lights for a good 3 to 4 hours after it got dark, getting wood from the cellar, getting water out to the horses (my sister has a boarding stable on the property with 16+ horses), just general use I have used this outage as a learning experience, I learned a great deal about the...
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    The New England ice storm of 2008

    12/17/08; Power is back on at home, the next question is for how long, last powerup only ran for about an hour before dying again.... I'm not holding my breath.... We *WILL* be contacting the State Utilities Commision over this, I want heads to roll! some CMP "Suits" need to lose their jobs...
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    The New England ice storm of 2008

    I spoke too soon, no less than THREE minutes after I posted my last update, the power went out *AGAIN!!!* Two tripped breakers on the Eliot side... We called CMP immediately after the second outage, they said they'd "try to send the trucks back, Frost Hill is not listed as "closed" yet" And...
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    The New England ice storm of 2008

    Three words..... ABOUT FRAKKING TIME!!! Power was restored on 12/16/08 at approx. 7:50 PM, FIVE DAYS after the storm CMP overall grade; F MINUS MINUS!, or -273 Farenheit, ABSOLUTE ZERO! I need to type up my final observations about the experience and sum them up in the next post or so
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    The New England ice storm of 2008

    None of these roads feed any emergency facilities, yes it's possible the family at the intersection had medical issues, but it's still inexcusable that they didn't even check our road, they could see the houses were dark.... and this morning, when driving around the block, I saw a CMP truck...
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    The New England ice storm of 2008

    Here's a graphic of the situation and why we're frustrated;
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    The New England ice storm of 2008

    12/16/08..... NO POWER NO CMP TRUCKS Beech Ridge, Birch Hill, and Goodwin, streets that border our road HAVE POWER, WE ARE STILL OUT!!!, CMP is still CLAIMING that there are crews in the area (BS!), yet we have yet to see a single truck! I talked with a "supervisor" at CMP and she basically...
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    The New England ice storm of 2008

    Tiff, sorry you're having to deal with this headache as well, PSNH is generally a lot more on-the-ball than CMP, while CMP ignored the first day, PSNH was out in force as far as your emergency lighting supplies go, it's a good idea to have at least a couple of "oddball" lights, lights that take...
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    The New England ice storm of 2008

    The one thing this debacle has taught me and made me think about is the fact that since CMP is reliably *UN*reliable, I need to find out how to take the house *OFF* the CMP grid, to make us completely self-sufficient electricitywise We do have redundant heating systems, the main system is oil...
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    The New England ice storm of 2008

    Your points are valid, part of the frustration I'm dealing with here is the fact that CMP claimed they were sending out a work crew yesterday, yet no truck was seen, I'm not alone here, everyone I've spoken to in the area has said the same thing, "we haven't seen *ANY* trucks", it's not just my...
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    The New England ice storm of 2008

    12/15/08; STILL NO FRAKKING POWER, NO SIGN OF CMP TRUCKS!!! This is getting old *FAST*, yesterday, some drone from CMP called, asked if we had power, we told them no, they said a crew had been assigned to our street..... We have not seen a *SINGLE* truck!! FRAKKING LIARS! I called Corprate...
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    Surefire A2 Aviator- no longer bright enough ?

    My A2 (with red/white Aviatrix ring) has been my EDC since the day I got it, and I don't expect that to change anytime soon, it does exactly what I need it to do, and the combination of floody low and throwy high can't be beat, it's a pure utility light I do pair it with my Novatac 120P, but...
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    The New England ice storm of 2008

    12/14/08; Still no power... Still no CMP truck... Posting from work because they have heat, light, and Internet, hmm, maybe I should grab my sleeping bag and crash here..... Called CMP Corporate again, actually spoke to a nice woman who explained the situation, we're most likely one of the...
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    The New England ice storm of 2008

    To make matters worse, tonight it's supposed to get down to 14 degrees (it's 19 now) Farenheit, luckilly our house is a 200+ year old Colonial with three fireplaces, and a woodstove in the sunroom, if we had no fireplaces we'd be hurting more than we are We have about a cord or so of wood in...
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    The New England ice storm of 2008

    The New England Ice Storm of 2008 Right now we're reeling from the aftermath of a massive ice storm that plowed through the New England area on 12/11/08, Maine has been hit especially hard, over 220,000 homes are without power, mine included, York County, where I live has been absolutely...

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