madecov
Flashlight Enthusiast
Forgot to mention it was still daylight:huh:
If it was daylight, why didn't you just wave at the ambulance, or turn on your light bar?Today,
Stopped to check by with another Officer. Had an ambulance on the way and we were in a parking lot so it could be difficult to see us. The ambulance pulls up and starts to look for us from the roadway. I take out my Klarus XT-11 and use strobe to get the attention of the driver.
Once he gets out of the box the driver looks at me, shakes his head and says I was an A@* Ho*& and what the heck was that light that blinded him.
Then he says I really need to get one of those.
If it was daylight, why didn't you just wave at the ambulance, or turn on your light bar?
I keep hoping for a situation where I can bust out a cool flashlight to show off. I always hope the power will go out but it never does. When the power flickers, my wife gets worried that the power will cut out, and I secretly hope it will. Funny part is, no one around will think the flashlights are as cool as I think they are, unless there happens to be another flashlight enthusiast around. (rare chance)
my LD01 (R4) on 10440 on Med-mode doesnt run longer than ~33mins. How short did the work last?they used my light for the rest of the time after that.
I took my P-Rocket XM-L with me on a camping trip with some friends. One of the guys was bragging to everyone else about this outdoorsman type club he had recently joined, and all of high-end gear he had to purchase for it, including a "super bright" flashlight. As it got dark, he pulled out a large rechargeable mag-light, and was showing it off. After letting him have a little fun, I pulled my P-Rocket out of my pocket and turned it on medium, which provoked a lot of "whoa, his is brighter than yours and he just pulled it out of his pocket!", then I turned it on high. He didn't talk to me the rest of the weekend.
Bigmac, you almost gave me a heart attack, that was hilarious!
Yes today at work,the lights weren't on at the construction site i was working on & the foreman pulled out this cheapo led light that had 6 LED's that put about 20 lumen on max power
it was also 5x bigger than my HDS Rotary 200.There was 7 men who couldn't see a thing & the foreman was bragging about how his light was going to save us.So i had my crocodile
dundee moment & said "thats not a light,this is a real light" & i illuminated everywhere we needed to see.The foreman wasn't very happy but the rest of us had a good laugh at his
childish remarks.....priceless:devil:
HAHAAHAH! How come fireman are not issued with some qualified lights anyway? They should all gear with an RRT3 or TN30, then fire fighting is another story..
I dunno' about envy but I sure was a little embarrassed the other night, I lent my back up light (SL Scorpion Incandescent) to a client rep' who had neglected to bring their own light (in the middle of the night) whilst I was using my new XT11, well it made the poor Scorpion look so woefully dim that I instantly offered them the Klarus to use instead... I had at that point considered the lights' battery to be partly discharged.
Short story is the light was working absolutely fine, it was just the XT11's output that made it appear so horribly yellow and dull by comparison