I have 16 flashlights, but the truth is, my job has nothing to do with flashlights, so I have very little placement strategy. I keep a 1000 lumen E2DL in the car and a Cloud Defensive MCH Duty in the nightstand. everything else is in a MAXPEDITION bag.
How many lights do you have strategically placed
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pnwoutdoors
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Let's see ...
1 at the home office desk
1 couple nearby the living room seating
1 at the bedside
1-2 in the car
Covers a power outage where I'm most likely to be at the time, if it occurs. The ones in the home are all easily found even in the dark.
pnwoutdoors
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It's easy enough to get an 8-slot charger and then make it a first-of-the-month thing to charge the cells for the active-duty lights. In a couple hours, all the charging is done, and the lights are all but certain to be "good to go" for the next month.
I ditch cells that begin heating up too much when charging. I ditch lights that result in parasitic drain. The ones I've got left (after trying a couple dozen different platforms) are all using the Malkoff drop-in LED modules. Dead nuts reliable, sufficient light for my needs, very good optics and tint. Easy to use, easy to maintain, in a small enough package to be comfortable for daily carry. Now, if I could only remember that "first of the month" trick ...
I've got at least one or two in each vehicle. Several in the bedroom. Several older ones in the basement and usually two with me whenever I'm out.
Kitchen Panda
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Lots of lights scattered about the house but not much "strategy". In the fairly rare event of a power failure, extra light is never far away. Thankfully we don't get hurricanes, tornadoes are rare and localized, and blizzards don't seem to trouble Manitoba Hydro as much as wet snow and pole fires.
If I have pants on, I have one or two keychain lights - currently a RovyVon A8 and a Fenix UC02. Bedside table has at least my 14-year-old Quark AA, plus whatever random flashlights I unload at the end of a day - the S2R Baton lives here or in the basement shop or parka pocket depending on what's going on. The better half has a Fenix UC01 in her purse which I'm not happy with and will replace some day since it often is dead when I check it.
Master bath has a little angle 1xAAA light, mostly used for checking teeth. In the kitchen I keep my old Maglight 3 D cell - with instructions that this is the only one that can be loaned out if the neightbor needs to borrow a light.
Basement workshop has my Quark 2AA for the tool bag, and my much loved Fenix LD02 on the magnetized tool rail over the bench - this is the light I grab when peering deep into recesses of things to see if its a slot, Phillips, Torx or tri-wing bit to take it apart. The laundry room has a nameless 2D cheap light that originally came with a PR2 but which got an upgrade to an LED when I found a bunch of them on clearance - it's dark in the laundry room if the lights go out, plus it gets used to find things that roll under the washing machine.
The car has my old NextTorch P8A when I got tired of replacing 2 x C cell lights for the car, as well as an Everyready headlamp and spare batteries.
Supplemental lighting that could be used portable if needed is a bunch of old Ikea motion sensor lights running on 3 triple A cells - I'm using Ikea rechargeables in these, which mostly serve as lights in the closets but which could be demounted for use elsewhere. One time I set one in the main floor "guest" bathroom for the convenience of overnight vistors. I picked up a couple of GE 6 x AA motion sensor lights for improved closet lighting - and loaned one of these to a niece who wanted a camping lantern for a weekend. Lots of light, adjustable to a low glow, and the motion sensing makes them useful as night lights in a tent.
It's just occurred to me that I don't have a light for the garage - if the car is home, I'll grab the car light and use that, or if I have some project in the garage I'll put on my Olight H2 headlamp. The garage is unheated, so that's hard on batteries...though the P8A has been kept in the car for a couple of winters now and the LiIon battery seems to be just fine. (I never charge it when the flashlight is below freezing.)
All of these get semi regular use - a few old or odd items like the Fenix TK70 never get serious use any more (last time was dog walking just to see if it still works), and the only reason I keep another 2x D with a PR2 bulb is to compare it with modern lights!
If I have pants on, I have one or two keychain lights - currently a RovyVon A8 and a Fenix UC02. Bedside table has at least my 14-year-old Quark AA, plus whatever random flashlights I unload at the end of a day - the S2R Baton lives here or in the basement shop or parka pocket depending on what's going on. The better half has a Fenix UC01 in her purse which I'm not happy with and will replace some day since it often is dead when I check it.
Master bath has a little angle 1xAAA light, mostly used for checking teeth. In the kitchen I keep my old Maglight 3 D cell - with instructions that this is the only one that can be loaned out if the neightbor needs to borrow a light.
Basement workshop has my Quark 2AA for the tool bag, and my much loved Fenix LD02 on the magnetized tool rail over the bench - this is the light I grab when peering deep into recesses of things to see if its a slot, Phillips, Torx or tri-wing bit to take it apart. The laundry room has a nameless 2D cheap light that originally came with a PR2 but which got an upgrade to an LED when I found a bunch of them on clearance - it's dark in the laundry room if the lights go out, plus it gets used to find things that roll under the washing machine.
The car has my old NextTorch P8A when I got tired of replacing 2 x C cell lights for the car, as well as an Everyready headlamp and spare batteries.
Supplemental lighting that could be used portable if needed is a bunch of old Ikea motion sensor lights running on 3 triple A cells - I'm using Ikea rechargeables in these, which mostly serve as lights in the closets but which could be demounted for use elsewhere. One time I set one in the main floor "guest" bathroom for the convenience of overnight vistors. I picked up a couple of GE 6 x AA motion sensor lights for improved closet lighting - and loaned one of these to a niece who wanted a camping lantern for a weekend. Lots of light, adjustable to a low glow, and the motion sensing makes them useful as night lights in a tent.
It's just occurred to me that I don't have a light for the garage - if the car is home, I'll grab the car light and use that, or if I have some project in the garage I'll put on my Olight H2 headlamp. The garage is unheated, so that's hard on batteries...though the P8A has been kept in the car for a couple of winters now and the LiIon battery seems to be just fine. (I never charge it when the flashlight is below freezing.)
All of these get semi regular use - a few old or odd items like the Fenix TK70 never get serious use any more (last time was dog walking just to see if it still works), and the only reason I keep another 2x D with a PR2 bulb is to compare it with modern lights!
Lights and Guns
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Not really strategically placing lights, last time my area lost power in a big way was way back in 2003.
With that said, I keep 2 flashlights on my bed side table.
1) Fenix TK75 (one of the earlier models, maybe 2018 or so) - this gets used as a lamp, on low or sometimes medium bouncing off the ceiling to light my room at night when I don't want my room lights on as I don't have a dimmer switch in that room.
2) Malkoff XT 21700 - This is my bump in the night flashlight.
Other than that, the rest of my lights are hanging out together in one area in the house, if I ever lost power and didn't have a light on me at that moment, I always have my phone on me, and the light it gives off it plenty bright to make my way over to where I keep my lights and pick one up...
With that said, I keep 2 flashlights on my bed side table.
1) Fenix TK75 (one of the earlier models, maybe 2018 or so) - this gets used as a lamp, on low or sometimes medium bouncing off the ceiling to light my room at night when I don't want my room lights on as I don't have a dimmer switch in that room.
2) Malkoff XT 21700 - This is my bump in the night flashlight.
Other than that, the rest of my lights are hanging out together in one area in the house, if I ever lost power and didn't have a light on me at that moment, I always have my phone on me, and the light it gives off it plenty bright to make my way over to where I keep my lights and pick one up...
Night stand, closet, wife's dresser, desk, kitchen cabinet, garage (hook by door), garage tool chest, basement work bench, tool bag (head lamp), truck.
So that is 10.
I also have 6 plug in the wall "power outage" activated plastic flashlights. Front bedroom, living room, family room, basement by circuit breaker box, basement main room, garage.
So that is more like 16. Wow! I feel a little bit like a nut.
So that is 10.
I also have 6 plug in the wall "power outage" activated plastic flashlights. Front bedroom, living room, family room, basement by circuit breaker box, basement main room, garage.
So that is more like 16. Wow! I feel a little bit like a nut.
Only 16??
On CPF, you're downright normal.
fringecandie
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It sounds like you're dealing with light overload! A practical approach would be to place key lights in frequently used areas (e.g., bedside, car, workspaces), while storing extras in a drawer or box to reduce clutter. For maintenance, schedule regular checks or use rechargeable lights with minimal parasitic drain.
Jean-Luc Descarte
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Fuzzywuzzies
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Our usage of torches is pretty high, especially at this time of year. Even with outside lighting, headlights, and other approaches, I find myself with a dozen or so carefully kept lights - from a ZL headlamp hanging near the back door for firewood, to my beloved Fourseven Maelstrom MX3 flood by the front door, to smaller lights around the house and sheds. The vehicles all have at least two lights, a "big" one in the back and a "small" one in the glove box.
I make a point of doing "the circuit" every Sunday and checking each one and changing batteries.
I make a point of doing "the circuit" every Sunday and checking each one and changing batteries.
alpg88
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Half of my lights are randomly spread around the house, and they always move around, so i do not know where a certain light is at that moment in time, ever since my kid learned to grab things and press buttons, he's been playing with them, it is like must have addition to any toy, or game he is playing with, he has to have one or two, whether he plays with legos, cars, trains, there is always a flashlight involved. I do keep large maglites away so the kid does not drop on his foot, but anything 2D and smaller are allowed
Lateck
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To many. I have lights in to many places.😁
