Illum
Flashaholic
During a conversation today with my Economics professor somehow the topic swirled from Potential GDP to income taxes to CPIs to Obama to Accounting to...Bicycle experiences.
Turns out what he has to work with ["a small lamp"] he has to dodge opossums near the woods, old lady on walkers around wally, and people who "walk around with an expression like deer in headlights." Feeling compelled to try and help him out with some ill-devised illumination, I came up here and risking my waffles and asking a stupid question [in the great scheme of things today hopefully I'm in the right subforum].
Objective: To locate and secure a bike lamp that can be handled and operated by a nonflashaholic and to operate efficiently
Design Criteria:
Moderately shock resistant
Weather resistant
No fancy colors
2 modes maximum
Alkaline cells
No PR lamp, No 5mm LEDs either, anything else = good
~1-2 Hour runtime, but thats a guess
Good throw [mainly to identify old ladies on walkers, the local fruit from the telephone pole, and on site identification for avoiding opossums.
Cost:
<$100, Anything above $50 I'll be giving it to him as a gift, of 15 years being in school hes the first "fun" Economics teacher I have ever met.:D
[<$100 is an estimated budget, I have $13.44 cash to work with at the moment...there might be a $20 under the bed, I don't know for sure]
Alternatives:
If you have a Luxeon bike lamp you've made back when Luxeons are still hot, depending on the type and modding possibility, I will pay any reasonable price to buy it from you. under the assumption that its all in one piece [if its for me, I'd prefer a huge NiMH battery pack jerked behind it like a colostomy bag] for this is going to be used by a 50ish man with gray hair that still uses his typewriter even when hes wearing his Compaq company shirt.
TIA
Turns out what he has to work with ["a small lamp"] he has to dodge opossums near the woods, old lady on walkers around wally, and people who "walk around with an expression like deer in headlights." Feeling compelled to try and help him out with some ill-devised illumination, I came up here and risking my waffles and asking a stupid question [in the great scheme of things today hopefully I'm in the right subforum].
Objective: To locate and secure a bike lamp that can be handled and operated by a nonflashaholic and to operate efficiently
Design Criteria:
Moderately shock resistant
Weather resistant
No fancy colors
2 modes maximum
Alkaline cells
No PR lamp, No 5mm LEDs either, anything else = good
~1-2 Hour runtime, but thats a guess
Good throw [mainly to identify old ladies on walkers, the local fruit from the telephone pole, and on site identification for avoiding opossums.
Cost:
<$100, Anything above $50 I'll be giving it to him as a gift, of 15 years being in school hes the first "fun" Economics teacher I have ever met.:D
[<$100 is an estimated budget, I have $13.44 cash to work with at the moment...there might be a $20 under the bed, I don't know for sure]
Alternatives:
If you have a Luxeon bike lamp you've made back when Luxeons are still hot, depending on the type and modding possibility, I will pay any reasonable price to buy it from you. under the assumption that its all in one piece [if its for me, I'd prefer a huge NiMH battery pack jerked behind it like a colostomy bag] for this is going to be used by a 50ish man with gray hair that still uses his typewriter even when hes wearing his Compaq company shirt.
TIA
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