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    Novatac Classic Vs. EDC-120P (long review, initial impressions)

    ...irrelavent, the light has, with one exception, been flawless, and has never failed me First off, let's get the obvious out of the way, the 120P is *significantly* shorter than the Classic, but since the Classic is a 2AA light and the 120P is a single CR123A light, that's to be expected, the...
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    MagLED XL100, are you *trying* to make me hate you?

    ...at close to middling distances, the beam profile of the XL100 is nice, very usable, but as distances increase, I cant be sure, but I could *swear* that Im seeing a slight, faint *donut hole* appear in the center of the hotspot, this would only be noticable when WWH though, but since I know...
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    Bringing my Eternalight out of retirement...

    ...machines (SCO's) Currently, I'm refurbing the cash dispenser portions of the SCO units, these are computerized cash delivery systems with *LOTS* of belts, gears, and moving parts in the actual cash transport system, lots of mechanical things moving rapidly and rotating With the proper...
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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

    ...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 not too bad for an emergency light, and it shows that he did put some thought into it, he knows I like flashlights, and it *IS* the thought that...
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    The importance of multiple backups....

    ...on how woefully unprepared I was, I let complacency get the best of me, when I put on my jeans to go outside and dig the truck out, I just *ASSUMED* I had my keys, A2 and 120P in their respective places (belt holster for the A2, RF pocket for the 120P, LF pocket for the keys), I was lucky I...
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    PT EOS (Luxeon) Vs. EOS (Rebel)

    I absolutely love my old Luxeon PT EOS, it's just so incredibly useful, just the right amount of light on low for navigating inside, a decent throw outside on high, and there's the luxury of having both hands free that the headlamp design is well known for the only thing I didn't like about the...
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    Pine Mountain Firelog review (hey, it *IS* incandescent...)

    Nope, one at a time, the flames are pretty tall well, you *could*, I suppose, but it'd be heavy, bulky and inconvenient... You'd have to DIY one, but you'd better have a bloody strong belt, as it's guaranteed to pull your pants down, not the best thing to have happen in a cold, snowy...
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    The New England ice storm of 2008

    ...bulb, yes it's a cheap, crappy plastic light, yes it's poorly constructed and has a cheap, scratched up plastic window, but you know wuat, it has a *GREAT* faceted reflector, and combined with the MJLED 2 cell bulb, it has a beam profile that's just as good as the Überexpensive SureFire incan...
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    The New England ice storm of 2008

    ...electrical side, we should have at the very least, a small 8 KW generator to keep our oil furnace running, we can live without electricity for the *conveniences* like electric lights, TV, and the Internet, but since both our oil heat, propane heater, and water heater and water pump are...
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    The New England ice storm of 2008

    ...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 over this, there are...
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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

    ...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 road, it's the entire area, not just the town of York, people from Eliot, Kittery, South Berwick, Wells...
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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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