Tec40
Newly Enlightened
After buying some new lights lately, I've found some of my old favorites while going through some of my old maintenance tool bags. I'm a former apt. maintenance supervisor who depended on my flashlights to aide in my job for over 23 years. The one that wound up being my favorite and my EDC, which really was strange, since it was operated by a piston drive type switch, which didn't have the greatest of track records…The Nitecore EX10.
The one in the picture is a EX10 SP-W which was the later version of the EX10, before the R2 I believe. It's neutral tint greatly helped in color rendition when it came to re-wiring something in a darker environment. It served me well for many years following its release when I first got one since the neutral tint was an option.
It's ashame that the piston drive wasn't as reliable in the Nitecore lights as was hoped for. Mine still functions as normal, but I remember just how many of us old timers on here suffered through the LED flashlight market growing pains. Some were ok, and some…well…just didn't make it. lol
I do miss how fun it was to go through those growing pains though, because we all knew the technology was expanding, and those of us who relied on flashlights because they were a part of our jobs, I for one was excited, that flashlights and their runtimes, brightness, and more choices of LED tints, would be improving vastly in the not to distant future. ( Especially between the years of 2010 and now. )
The other flashlight pictured is the Romisen RC-G2 WW, which was a budget friendly single AA light, that had a nice neutral tint for the time that it was released in.
And the last light pictured is where my name for CPF came from when I first became a member on here, many moons ago….the Princeton Tec-40. It was a great waterproof incandescent 4-AA light that used to be in my tool bag for many years as well. ( obviously…not the light in the picture. That one's never been used )
Well…thank y'all for listening to my reminiscing of my experience with flashlights over the years. I'm still a proud member of this forum, and have encouraged many other apt. maintenance guys in the past to get on here and enjoy likeminded people who have a great interest in, and love of flashlights.
The one in the picture is a EX10 SP-W which was the later version of the EX10, before the R2 I believe. It's neutral tint greatly helped in color rendition when it came to re-wiring something in a darker environment. It served me well for many years following its release when I first got one since the neutral tint was an option.
It's ashame that the piston drive wasn't as reliable in the Nitecore lights as was hoped for. Mine still functions as normal, but I remember just how many of us old timers on here suffered through the LED flashlight market growing pains. Some were ok, and some…well…just didn't make it. lol
I do miss how fun it was to go through those growing pains though, because we all knew the technology was expanding, and those of us who relied on flashlights because they were a part of our jobs, I for one was excited, that flashlights and their runtimes, brightness, and more choices of LED tints, would be improving vastly in the not to distant future. ( Especially between the years of 2010 and now. )
The other flashlight pictured is the Romisen RC-G2 WW, which was a budget friendly single AA light, that had a nice neutral tint for the time that it was released in.
And the last light pictured is where my name for CPF came from when I first became a member on here, many moons ago….the Princeton Tec-40. It was a great waterproof incandescent 4-AA light that used to be in my tool bag for many years as well. ( obviously…not the light in the picture. That one's never been used )
Well…thank y'all for listening to my reminiscing of my experience with flashlights over the years. I'm still a proud member of this forum, and have encouraged many other apt. maintenance guys in the past to get on here and enjoy likeminded people who have a great interest in, and love of flashlights.
