Hellbore
Enlightened
Hey guys,
My Mom is about 70 years old but she loves gadgets. A while back I gave my mother one of those $7 Elly flashlights, which I had modded to put a Cree star into.
She loved the light dearly, and carried it around in her purse all the time. However, the main thing she used it for was reading. She reads in bed about every night. She has a hard time seeing and so she would use the flashlight to read with.
The problem was, she always fell asleep reading, and the battery would go dead. This wasn't a big deal by itself, except that SOMETIMES, when the battery goes dead, it leaks gunk out.
This happened a couple times, but finally one time the gunk the battery leaked out ruined the flashlight's driver circuitry.
Does anyone have any good ideas as to how to set her up with a flashlight that she can use to read, but if she falls asleep and leaves it on, it won't ruin the battery or make it leak?
The light would preferrably use AA batteries, for simplicity sake. She always has lots of those. Also, it would need to have a good balance of runtime (so she can read for a couple of hours or so) and brightness (she also uses it to feed the dogs at night, go on walks at night, etc).
I also want to go a step up in quality this time vs. the Elly, which seemed kind of cheapo on the reflector and lens.
Your ideas?
My Mom is about 70 years old but she loves gadgets. A while back I gave my mother one of those $7 Elly flashlights, which I had modded to put a Cree star into.
She loved the light dearly, and carried it around in her purse all the time. However, the main thing she used it for was reading. She reads in bed about every night. She has a hard time seeing and so she would use the flashlight to read with.
The problem was, she always fell asleep reading, and the battery would go dead. This wasn't a big deal by itself, except that SOMETIMES, when the battery goes dead, it leaks gunk out.
This happened a couple times, but finally one time the gunk the battery leaked out ruined the flashlight's driver circuitry.
Does anyone have any good ideas as to how to set her up with a flashlight that she can use to read, but if she falls asleep and leaves it on, it won't ruin the battery or make it leak?
The light would preferrably use AA batteries, for simplicity sake. She always has lots of those. Also, it would need to have a good balance of runtime (so she can read for a couple of hours or so) and brightness (she also uses it to feed the dogs at night, go on walks at night, etc).
I also want to go a step up in quality this time vs. the Elly, which seemed kind of cheapo on the reflector and lens.
Your ideas?
