Heresy -- Flashlights are useless
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jtr1962
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My attitude on that is so long as whatever they enjoy doing has no major actual negative effects on me or others it's not my place to belittle the choices others make, even if I don't understand their reasoning. Note the term "actual effects", as in negatively impacting health, or having a high probability of causing injury, etc. If I just don't happen to like something which is otherwise harmless, I keep my mouth shut. For example, I'm not a fan of tattoos but it doesn't harm me in the least if someone else is.
It doesn't harm me either if someone prefers lanterns over flashlights, or vice versa. Nor do I care if a person likes incandescent flashlights instead of LED. Only a very small subset of choices are actually harmful to me, like inattentive/drunk/drugged driving/cycling. I reserve my ire for those things only.
My button is when people start trying to control my life by telling me how they think I should be living. I had a former friend like that. That's the reason why he's a former friend. Literally every choice I made in my life, he belittled it, even stuff I did 40 years ago. "Oh, why didn't you get married?, Why didn't you have kids?, Why don't you date?, Why didn't you put more effort into your career?, Why don't you like my almost daily 2 or 3 hour phone calls?, Why don't you ever wear shorts?, Why don't you use a bike helmet?" Ugh. I'm getting aggravated just writing this, never mind when I went through it. Not one thing he ever bothered me about affected him personally. Well, maybe his desire to take up a lot more of my time than I wanted chatting about nonsense did, but that's his idea of friendship versus mine. If he wanted a friend like that, he should have stopped bothering with me when he saw I wasn't into constant, long phone calls.
Hey jtr1962, did you know the first flashlight was a bicycle light?
Yup, David Misell had invented an electric candle in a wooden box mounted to his handlebars to light up the path of his ride.
Conrad Hubert bought the idea from him. then used it to start what is now called Eveready.
Yup, David Misell had invented an electric candle in a wooden box mounted to his handlebars to light up the path of his ride.
Conrad Hubert bought the idea from him. then used it to start what is now called Eveready.
IMA SOL MAN
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What did Hubert pay him for the idea?
kaichu dento
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My point exactly, not the place of the OP to belittle anyone else’s choices.
kaichu dento
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I like it!
jtr1962
Flashaholic
I didn't know that but it kind of makes sense. That's one application in that era where portable light is very useful.
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It was called the "flashlight" because the carbon filament didn't last very long. Perhaps a minute or two if it was kept lit so folks would light it a few seconds at a time. It was a big, thick chunk of brittle wire.
And the batteries weren't very good either but the filament was the problem until a tungston one was invented around 1910.
The Brits called it a "torch". Many still do.
Conrad tried to name it a different name. He had a contest. The winner was the word "Daylo". He spent millions trying to get it to catch on. So there were a bunch of Eveready Daylo lights made for about a year including 2C baby cop lights carried by soldiers in WW1.
And the batteries weren't very good either but the filament was the problem until a tungston one was invented around 1910.
The Brits called it a "torch". Many still do.
Conrad tried to name it a different name. He had a contest. The winner was the word "Daylo". He spent millions trying to get it to catch on. So there were a bunch of Eveready Daylo lights made for about a year including 2C baby cop lights carried by soldiers in WW1.
M@elstrom
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Because that's what they are 😋
alpg88
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In usa we do not call flashlights torch, this is what a torch is.
The term originally came from fire on a stick, didn't it? Electric torch has a nice ring to it.
bigburly912
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We all just need to quit working so that we won’t know we won’t need flashlights. If you can’t afford them you won’t want them.
It builds character dang it!!
It builds character dang it!!
gurdygurds
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Ya'll know what this thread calls for? An E01 challenge.
bigburly912
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Yuji know I’m in
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Yup. Heresy.
Guitar Guy
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Does that have a USB-C charging port?😁
Talking about diffusers & lanterns, has anyone ever used the ole jug-o-water diffuser? I've used this in my camping trailer, and on the picnic table preparing some food at the campsite many times. It works better with a regular square jug of "spring" water like you would get in a grocery store, but this round jug is all I had at the moment.
Just prop up a flashlight against it and choose your brightness mode, and you have a glowing jug of water that actually gives off a nice pleasing shade of light that radiates well in all directions. This photo doesn't really do it justice because I just snapped a quick pic with the room lights off, and the camera interpreted it a bit differently from how it really looks, but with the right jug, the right light, and the right brightness mode, it works VERY well around the campsite, or for lighting a room in a power outage. Give it a try.
I thought about a comment in this thread about a light bulb popped so those are "no good" when the low voltage protection kicked in on my LED light and it shut off.
Does that make the LED light useless too?
Does that make the LED light useless too?
Water bottle diffusers are the best!
I have always kinda liked lanterns even though they have generally not been as useful as flashlights and headlamps in most situations. The reason is that you can only see well with a typical lantern for a few feet. On top of that most lanterns on the market suck – diffusers that put off too much glare, shoddy construction, ugly tint, poor battery life/inefficient drivers and visible PWM, etc.
Now, I just 3D print diffusers for my flashlights to turn them into lanterns (if I'm not using a water bottle).
I have always kinda liked lanterns even though they have generally not been as useful as flashlights and headlamps in most situations. The reason is that you can only see well with a typical lantern for a few feet. On top of that most lanterns on the market suck – diffusers that put off too much glare, shoddy construction, ugly tint, poor battery life/inefficient drivers and visible PWM, etc.
Now, I just 3D print diffusers for my flashlights to turn them into lanterns (if I'm not using a water bottle).
bigburly912
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I like the old Mountain Dew bottle diffuser myself. I don’t drink Mountain Dew but I like the neon glow
Dave_H
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These are good ideas on using common objects as diffusers, giving flashlights lantern-like function.
Plastic bulb from an A19 or similar LED bulb has good diffusion but usually the opening does not fit flashlights well. I was amazed by an RGB bulb in "white mode" which with bulb removed showed the three colours, but with bulb installed, was difficult to discern from a regular white bulb; diffusion and colour-mixing was that good.
Dave
Plastic bulb from an A19 or similar LED bulb has good diffusion but usually the opening does not fit flashlights well. I was amazed by an RGB bulb in "white mode" which with bulb removed showed the three colours, but with bulb installed, was difficult to discern from a regular white bulb; diffusion and colour-mixing was that good.
Dave
