Hey PK, I have a question!!!

[ugrey]

Dear Great Leader, King of ALL aluminum tubes that emit light,

It is Saturday and I have done all my chores for today, so I thought I would ask a question.

Since all of SureFires flashlight products depend on 123 lithium batteries, why does not SureFire make a battery tester. All your customers would greatly benefit from one of these. I could have avoided the nasty surprise of dead batteries several times. Many of your customers bet their lives on how much juice is left in SF batteries. To quote Forrest Gump, it seems like they would go together like peas and carrots.

I now have a ZTS battery tester, and it is okay, but I am sure that SF could come out with something better.

PK, many thanks to you and Dr. Matthews for the flashlights that keep myself and my family a little safer.

A grateful, humble customer - Ugrey

P.S. You keep making them and I will keep buying them.

(Al/Size15s, is this the proper level of respect in which to approach the great Wizard of the Flashlight?)

 

[DaFABRICATA]

That would be cool!

Make it look like a 3P or an E1e with a digital readout in the bezel that shows you exact voltage!...maybe with a Red/Yellow/Green LED like the UA2 or UB2 were supposed to have...

 

[Kestrel]

Make it look like a 3P or an E1e with a digital readout in the bezel that shows you exact voltage!...maybe with a Red/Yellow/Green LED like the UA2 or UB2 were supposed to have...

Better yet, build it into a Z41 tailcap. When you hit 'momentary-on', it displays on a dial viewed from the rear, like a car speedometer. At the same time, the circuit is completed and the light comes on - that way you know how the cell is actually doing under the load that you're giving it. When you rotate the tailcap to 'constant on', it cuts out the testing circuit and runs the flashlight normally.:thumbsup:

Edit: I thought this was a good idea until I figured that the most likely use of a Z41 is on a two-cell 6P, so you won't know how any one cell is doing. I guess there could be a one-cell Z41 tester tailcap, a two-cell unit, and a three-cell unit, that is designed to test the total voltage of the cell stack. It's not like you should be having one low cell anyway.

 

[csshih]

Better yet, build it into a Z41 tailcap. When you hit 'momentary-on', it displays on a dial viewed from the rear, like a car speedometer. At the same time, the circuit is completed and the light comes on - that way you know how the cell is actually doing under the load that you're giving it. When you rotate the tailcap to 'constant on', it cuts out the testing circuit and runs the flashlight normally.:thumbsup:

ok.. now that might be overkill...

I like it!

 

[pk]

Ugrey,
Hope you had productive weekend and I am flatter with your kind appraisal.

I believe SureFire definitely can make an ultimate battery tester that matches quality and details of SF flashlights.
However, I am not sure how much of market demands out there for an high-end Energy storage monitoring/maintenance systems... perhaps, enough…
But, I do believe a built-in "battery fuel gage" on high end portable light is a must have requirement.

I sincerely appreciate your continued supports,
and will continue my efforts to contribute innovation to lighting applications.

Respectfully,
pk

p.s. Just FYI.
I am not sure that I am an engineer or artist or BS artist ... :thinking:
But I am definitely a flashaholic like any one of you for sure.
Lets keep our communication open for all new fresh ideas.
Also, please expect some new approach from my new ICON efforts as well.

 

[schiesz]

But, I do believe a built-in "battery fuel gage" on high end portable light is a must have requirement.

I'll be watching for some indication of this in the future!

 

[Illum]

ahh...good to hear from the weenie again
you fixed Pk-e too:twothumbs

I am not sure that I am an engineer or artist or BS artist ... :thinking:

Then who is the designer behind all this?

 

[ugrey]

Well, I think I can die happy now. The Great Wizard of Flashlights has answered one of my posts. I need to figure out now how to print this out and frame it. I AM somebody! I will now check my mail everyday for an engraved invitation to the next SurFire/CPF party. The rest of you CPFers may adress me as "Ugrey-Most Favored CPF Member" I will also now work this bit of good fortune into ALL my future postings here, whether it is relevant or not. For example, "You know, PK told me one time......." or "PK answered my post the other day and said......"

Yes Virginia, there really is a PK and he does answer posts.

This may well be the highlight of my CPF membership. The rest will all be down hill. I figure I am now famous or infamous or something. I AM LEGEND. (in my own mind)

Thanks PK.

 

[Burgess]

to ugrey --


uda man !


:thumbsup:

 

[Sgt. LED]

You know what, I would feel exactly the same way!

Congrats O favored one.............

 

[Illum]

You know what, I would feel exactly the same way!

Congrats O favored one.............

now now, PK's fair with everyone, just not everyone can have a question that can tickle PK's brain and make him feel compelled to respond.

 

[ugrey]

Illum, you are so right. It must be that sixth grade edumacation I got. Mom always said that advanced book learning would pay off some day!

 

[pk]

Ha ha~
Ugrey, you are funny!!

Anyway, you have quiet a collection list.
Love to see their portrait.

pk

 

[Illum]

Illum, you are so right. It must be that sixth grade edumacation I got. Mom always said that advanced book learning would pay off some day!

Mark Twain once said... "I do not allow schooling to interfere with my education"

I think it depends who you are talking to... like PK certainly wouldn't be under that explanation. It takes alot to turn a harmless piece of aluminum into something both popular and intimidating just by cutting grooves on it

:sigh: back when pkengineering was on once awhile I'd visit and see the many concepts I otherwise would never think of. Sometimes I think its not the innovators that builds the best stuff, its individuals like PK that reinvent past innovations and make it better.

Reminds me of a Metal fabricator I once talked to. I learned two things: "Triumph of creativity over intelligence is the key to fixing anything thats not on the manual." and "If its stupid, but it works. Then its not stupid"