HDS Systems EDC # 19

[archimedes]

Multiple cells add multiple potential points of failure to the system ... :shrug:

I can see that but 2 aa's are pretty simple,I can't remember the last time that I had a problem with one?

It's a philosophy, like "two is one" ....

 

[thermal guy]

Not to mention that in a pinch AA batteries can be found anywhere. Toys, clocks, many small devices.

 

[indigon]

Duplicate post.

 

[indigon]

Not to mention that in a pinch AA batteries can be found anywhere. Toys, clocks, many small devices.

I believe this is the main reason they are produced, particularly for travelers etc. Otherwise not practical for obvious reasons. JMHO.

-Edited to add: I was thinking a battery tube with 2AA side-by-side would be kinda cool, like a handle and not a mile long..

 

[Mobileschoney]

Got my Rotary in the mail today and I have to say that Hi Cri Rotary is pretty darn amazing. What a beautiful tint, couldn't stop shining it on trees and plants in the garden, so pleasing!
I'm very happy with my decision to get this light!

 

[wimmer21]

It has arrived!

That pic is awful, let's try again. ;-)

 

[wimmer21]

I can't get over how low the lowest setting is... has to be a world record low. It deserves it's own name too because firefly don't even cover it.

 

[wimmer21]

Anyone believe they get more output from an AW 16340 compared to a Duracell Ultra Lithium 123?

 

[wimmer21]

Got my Rotary in the mail today and I have to say that Hi Cri Rotary is pretty darn amazing. What a beautiful tint, couldn't stop shining it on trees and plants in the garden, so pleasing!
I'm very happy with my decision to get this light!

Congrats... I am in full agreement. I don't have a garden but the flowers in my office looked brilliant! I don't have any flowers but if I did that would still be my response.

 

[scout24]

Congrats on the Rotary! It is a great light. The low, which does pretty much everything that I need a low to do, isn't even in the "Top 5" of low level output. There does become a point of diminishing returns personally, but there are lights (005, 007, Tri-V, etc.) that can go low enough to make a single trit look bright.

 

[wimmer21]

Wow I would not have guessed. This low is so low I can't see the beam on the wall from my chair with the lights out. Yeah I wouldn't want it any lower... this is nice though.

 

[LedTed]

It has arrived!

1st - LOL.

 

[wimmer21]

1st - LOL.

Lol I couldn't resist. I was at work when the light arrived and that old scoreboard wasn't supposed to show up, but my phone had other ideas haha. So I posted it... first men's event I ever won. Whoever worked that scoreboard is an idiot btw. Who puts the first round leader at the bottom with the tail end of the flight at the top? That bothered me back in 1989 and it still does.

 

[wimmer21]

^^^ No one answer that. This thread is not about a golf tourney from 25 years ago.

 

[eraursls1984]

Wow I would not have guessed. This low is so low I can't see the beam on the wall from my chair with the lights out. Yeah I wouldn't want it any lower... this is nice though.

The Sunwayman V20c that I had went so low that even in a pitch black room with your eye to the lens you couldn't tell the LED was on unless you didn't look directly at it. You could only faintly see it in your peripheral vision, but not if you looked directly at it. I thought it was really neat, but it has no practical purpose. All of my Zebralights get lower than my Rotary 325 4000K XP-L. The HDS gets low enough.

 

[the0dore3524]

Wow congrats Wimmer! Glad to see you so happy with it. Next on the list is the Boss 35?

 

[FroggyTaco]

Wow congrats Wimmer! Glad to see you so happy with it. Next on the list is the Boss 35?

MayI please get a link to this Boss35? I haven't kept up on the forums recently & have now seen this mentioned more than once.

 

[the0dore3524]

MayI please get a link to this Boss35? I haven't kept up on the forums recently & have now seen this mentioned more than once.

No problem! Here it is:

http://www.oveready.com/b-o-s-s-/boss-35-clicky-7075-patina/prod_442.html

It's unquestionably the most sought after light right now lol.

 

[wimmer21]

It's my next light. Unless I buy something else first.

 

[Lithium466]

Anyone believe they get more output from an AW 16340 compared to a Duracell Ultra Lithium 123?

No, the rotary is perfectly regulated on both, and will give you the same output, minus of course a few % of variation if you measure it with a luxmeter.