LEDninja
Flashlight Enthusiast
Back in 2002 I made 2 mistakes.
1) I forgot to check the Solitaire in my pocket, otherwise I would know the battery was dead and grabbed the Dorcy 2AA in my desk drawer.
2) Once I found my Solitaire was dead, I was so thrown I tried to feel my way up the stairs instead of backing out and going to the nearest corner store for batteries. Feeling my way up the stairs was the easy part. Keeping track of which floor I was on was the scary part.
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I had bought a Radio Shack branded Turtlelite/Dorcy 4AA 1LED floating lantern. I was impressed with the runtime so went looking for a pocketable LED light. Google brought me to CPF and...
Well with my trusty Turtlelite I went down to the local big downtown mall. Took 4 days for power to be restored to the whole mall.
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During the last blackout I grabbed a couple of flashlights to go see how far it extended. The hallway was lit up. Huh! Started to go down the normally lit stairs. :thinking: Met the super huffing & puffing up the stairs with an armful of plastic flashlights. Told me he had to get the generator started.
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Went down to the mall. Lit up as usual on the main floor. Wondered down the stairs to the washroom. Stairs & washroom was lit up. Parking garage was not. The mall had also put in backup generators.
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A couple of years ago I used to toss my newspapers at night. One light outside the back door. The recycle bins were in an alcove like dent in the building in the dark. I used to sit my Electrolumens My Little Friend bezel up in it's holster to ceiling bounce and let me see the bins clearly. There was no knob on the door so I had to go around the building to go back in. There was a bit of lawn with a tree on one side.
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Then they found room for the bins inside the building.
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I got a Dereelight with the Q2 5A warm white pill. The beam looked brown. LukeA said I have to shine that light on REAL things. After watching the fireworks from my balcony on Canada day I grabbed the Dereelight and went out back. Ulp. The building managers had purchased an open lot behind the building for additional parking, and lit it up good. There is a row of lights on the back wall of the building so tenants can go to the parking lot at night. The tree was lit from all sides.
Went around front. There was some trees across the street, but with a streetlight directly opposite and others on each side.
I remembered some trees on the roof of the mall. The top of the mall was as well lit as the streets below.
I went to bed without finding any unlit real things.
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I don't need my lights anymore.:sigh:
1) I forgot to check the Solitaire in my pocket, otherwise I would know the battery was dead and grabbed the Dorcy 2AA in my desk drawer.
2) Once I found my Solitaire was dead, I was so thrown I tried to feel my way up the stairs instead of backing out and going to the nearest corner store for batteries. Feeling my way up the stairs was the easy part. Keeping track of which floor I was on was the scary part.
-
I had bought a Radio Shack branded Turtlelite/Dorcy 4AA 1LED floating lantern. I was impressed with the runtime so went looking for a pocketable LED light. Google brought me to CPF and...
Well with my trusty Turtlelite I went down to the local big downtown mall. Took 4 days for power to be restored to the whole mall.
-----
During the last blackout I grabbed a couple of flashlights to go see how far it extended. The hallway was lit up. Huh! Started to go down the normally lit stairs. :thinking: Met the super huffing & puffing up the stairs with an armful of plastic flashlights. Told me he had to get the generator started.
-
Went down to the mall. Lit up as usual on the main floor. Wondered down the stairs to the washroom. Stairs & washroom was lit up. Parking garage was not. The mall had also put in backup generators.
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A couple of years ago I used to toss my newspapers at night. One light outside the back door. The recycle bins were in an alcove like dent in the building in the dark. I used to sit my Electrolumens My Little Friend bezel up in it's holster to ceiling bounce and let me see the bins clearly. There was no knob on the door so I had to go around the building to go back in. There was a bit of lawn with a tree on one side.
-
Then they found room for the bins inside the building.
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I got a Dereelight with the Q2 5A warm white pill. The beam looked brown. LukeA said I have to shine that light on REAL things. After watching the fireworks from my balcony on Canada day I grabbed the Dereelight and went out back. Ulp. The building managers had purchased an open lot behind the building for additional parking, and lit it up good. There is a row of lights on the back wall of the building so tenants can go to the parking lot at night. The tree was lit from all sides.
Went around front. There was some trees across the street, but with a streetlight directly opposite and others on each side.
I remembered some trees on the roof of the mall. The top of the mall was as well lit as the streets below.
I went to bed without finding any unlit real things.
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I don't need my lights anymore.:sigh:
I live on a farm in Norway, and when it's dark it's DARK. At least in the winter. Only a couple of hours of daylight each day in the darkest period. And in the north there's darkness all day in the winter, but daylight 24 hours of the day in the summer though.
