Hi everyone !

[Jennifer16]

i think i found out where everyone is at.
i was at Darksbane and no one was there
kinda lonely, but someone called Silveron came and
saved me. said everyone is over here.
so here i am

Hello everybody, i'm new out here and i love to read and learn.
so the more ya's type me, the mores i know

but I do have a question for ya's-
my Mom bought one on Friday and I'm not sure if she got
a good deal or not.
She should be gett'en it tomarrow
has anyone ever seen these?
www.sell.com/2FDFF
i see rave beam makes these little thin gs, but are they
really bright ?
i never hear d of rave beam before

sorry bout the typ'en, I'm in typing class so i"m going
to get better- I hope so anyway.

Jennifer

 

[Size15's]

Welcome to CPF Jennifer!

Al /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[shiftd]

Welcome Jennifer.
Well, judging from the seller, he is not a very reputable seller here. Sometime back, he made a mess.
anyway, the price is too expensive. You better off with photon 2 with colored leds. the price around half as much and better quality too.
These rave lights (including photon) were bright at their first 5 minutes of runtime and then dimming very fast to around a still acceptable beam of light and keep dimming as the battery depleted until around a few hours.

 

[gyverpete]

Welcome aboard,
Jennifer16

I have one of these same "RAVE BEAM" lights with a blue LED. Got it at an ACE Hardware, out of curiosity and because it was cheap. It was $2.99. So that seller you linked is way overpriced. It's small and bright but has a terrible beam and the hole for the keyring is thin and looks fragile.
I second shifd's suggestion. The Photon is much better. They're well made and have a lifetime warranty. Only slightly larger than the RAVE. There are lots of websites that sell them as well as some outdoor equip. stores. I can recommend this site: http://www.vicomptel.com/vlights/CPF.htm
Price is $8.75 plus $0.70 shipping.

But since the light has already been ordered, let us know what you think when you receive the RAVE light.
If you get hooked on lights like most of us here you'll be buying and trying other lights in no time. The ARC AAA LED light is also very popular at CPF, so be sure to search the threads on CPF for it. Currently it is available only with white and turquoise LED's.

 

[tvodrd]

Welcome Jennifer,

Next will come the Arc AAA, the Surefire E2e, then a KL1 for it, then an Arc LS, Then you'll be modding MiniMags with Luxeon Stars, then you'll have to have an M6, then........

Larry

 

[BigMac]

Hey Jennifer, Welcome to CPF!

I just joined not to long ago, too. What tvodvd said is almost exactly right. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif. I do recomend the photon also. It is a great light, and runs on the same batteries as the rave beam. Another small LED light would be the inova microlight. It is very bright (brighter than my photon) but does have a kind of ringy beam. You can get white at http://www.countycomm.com/light2.htm for a great price, but they do come in other colors. If you are interested I think I have a pictue comparing the photon and inova beams around here somewhere...

 

[Jennifer16]

hello and thanks for the welcome everybody

now I'm seeing the light- great links guys
I like criss cross grip patern on that mini light with the
soket wrench
whats a KL1 Tvodrd ?

question from my brother that i cant answer yet-
how can a LED be focused with the housing, all the LED's he and i seen are forward throw anyway
no side throw to be reflekted and focused forward

on the cosmic ray, that's on the way- poetry here guy's
it's the super duper small size that's squek'en this familys butt cheecks

my Dad got that photon one that ya squese it to turn it on a
month ago. and myMom wants to show 'em off with an
even smaller one..
ya see, my Dad's runn'en around very proud of his little thing-a-ma-jig, show'en everybody..

hehe i couldnt resist on that one guys

I'll do a type up/down on the cosmic thing for all of you, but you
guy's got to give me a hand on wat to look for ok?

and Thank You All for talk'en to me, im off tomarrow so i can type again in the Morning..

Jennifer

 

[spinkid]

Jennifer,
Welcome, below is some more reading for you that will answer you focusing question on LED's. The answer is Lumileds Luxeon LED's. You would then look at the "side emitter" which you could focus.

http://www.lumileds.com/luxeon/products/star_index.html

The KL1 info. could be found here:

http://www.san.surefire.com/cgi-bin/main.pl?pgm=co_disp&func=displ&pgrfnbr=387&sesent=0,0

Enjoy

 

[Lebkuecher]

Jennifer

Are you for real?

 

[shiftd]

Ordinary led also able to be focused using reflector as the led is not only throw forward beam, but also side spill. This side beam is the one used by the reflector. If focused correctly, the beam will looks like an ordinary incandescent, but with a much dimmer light from an ordinary led (not luxeon)

 

[B@rt]

 

[paulr]

Hey Jennifer, here's a selection of keychain LED lights, though the Photon prices are not very good:

http://pocketlights.com/keychainlights.asp

As you can see, the smallest ones are the Boker and the Tag light (the Tag is the last one on the page). Keep in mind that all these lights will be pretty bright when you first start using them and then get dimmer and dimmer. They say "battery life 16 hours" but by then it will be dimmer than a firefly!

If you want a longer lasting light (but bigger), I second the recommendation of an Arc AAA.

 

[SUREFARC]

Hey Jennifer, welcome!

for keychain lights, I do recommand the Arc AAA.

 

[I_rv_too]

>>are you for real

My bet is someone is playing with us. Can't type yet can post hyper-links to other websites. Give me a break. Claims to be taking a typing course, yet spells it "typ'en." Yup, someone is playing with us.

 

[SUREFARC]

What the ??!!

 

[Flying Turtle]

That light that good ol' Jennifer links us to looks exactly like one I got the other day at the dollar store.

 

[Jennifer16]

I'm back

and to the I RV TOO person:
you have had a bad experience with trust !
and i'm not going to have someone stalking me around
because i told someone where i go and who know's me
to see I am who i am.

i think for this short time, everyone else knows who i am
i know i do

please don't get mad at me for my typing
I am supposed to not look at the keys

anyone can cut and paste a address if there showed how-

but i dont know how to get a picture to work online
i have a picture i want to use but where do i put it so I can use it ?

and i looked at that boker magnum minilight PAULR
do you have one of those ?
how does that compare to the photon2 beem ?

Is my typing better now ? I'm looking at the keys
it takes allot longer to type the teacher said.

and thanks for the welcome everybody !

Jennifer

 

[Jennifer16]

me again

at a dollar store ?
glad my Mom cant see this

where does dollar storesbuy them, cause i cant find rave
beem with yahoo

Jennifer again

 

[Quickbeam]

Jennifer,

Here's my take on the Boker light:

http://thelightsite.cruxial.com/reviews/boker_minilight.htm

Click on the banner in my signature to view many more light reviews I have done. You can visit ledmuseum.org and torchreviews.net for more reviews as well.

Welcome aboard!

 

[Jennifer16]

and me agin

Wow thanks QUICKBEAM !
thats allot of ink to print and read

woops i just noticed that's your site ?
thats allot of lights thank you a whole bunch

i'll be reading for a while

it is the size that matters

Jennifer