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Going to most likely be using my Skilhunt H200 at some point this week..
installing a new ceiling LED light bulb.

(Being able to be hands-free,on a task like that,is wonderful.)
 
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I used my Emisar D2 Headlamp last night:

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My cat likes to bring me live mice, which she releases at my feet. The mouse she brought in yesterday, ran onto a sticky trap I have placed in a corner under a space heater (where the cat cant get stuck on it).

Im scared of mice for the potential risk of Hantavirus here in the Southwest USA, so I wear a covid mask to dispose of them. I need both my hands free and cant hold a light in my mouth when wearing a mask. A headlamp is essential for the job.
 
jon_slider said:
I used my Emisar D2 Headlamp last Im scared of mice for the potential risk of Hantavirus here in the Southwest USA, so I wear a covid mask to dispose of them. I need both my hands free and cant hold a light in my mouth when wearing a mask.
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That's something we don't see much about. Have there been more cases lately, or just a precaution?
 
Been trying out my recent acquisitions from Maglite. 🙂🤓

I may have found my answer to my pencil beam thread.

I had not messed much with an incan in quite some time--amazing the difference in lumens from LEDs! It's good to be alive today!

Running the Spectrum series Solitaires with Energizer lithium primaries...I don't know if it is the lithium cells, but these Solitaires are a lot brighter than I expected. I may switch to Eneloops in the red to lower the output, as it is brighter than what I want with the lithium.

Oh! And just to update, found and killed three spiders in one day a few days ago. 🤪 I think the outside heat is driving them inside.
 
We got out of town just for a couple of days - our goal was sight-seeing and to take in a drive-in movie at one of the last three drive-ins in Manitoba. I haven't seen a movie at a drive-in since I was a kid.

My wife was amused when I said I'd packed six flashlights for our two nights on the road, not counting the flashlight and headlamp in the car...she thought perhaps this was 1 or 2 over what I might have needed. In my defence, I always have the two keychain lights, and the Maglight AAA in the tactical bag is always there anyway,and the AAA Nova in the first-aid bag doesn't count, so it's really only two lights packed for the purpose.

Only going to a drive-in lets you realize how many lights are in your car. At least we could turn off our daytime running lights by setting the parking brake. Unlike our neighbor, who was taping trash bags over his lights as we waited for dusk. I asked him if he knew about the parking brake trick and he said his former Toyota did this, but the current vehicle doesn't. He enjoyed hearing that our 2018 Camry has this feature that I'd only discovered the day of the movie. Meanwhile my loving wife was killing herself laughing when I admitted I had trash bags and duct tape in our car for the same purpose. (I'd even done a test in the garage before leaving, to see how much heat would build up - not too much, I expect.)

When I was a boy, you could turn off all the interior lights with the dashboard dimmer...that doesn't work any more. I can dim the instrument cluster down a bit, but the A/C controls and PRNDL indicator stay at full brightness. Particularly annoying is the car alarm waning flasher. At least one can turn off the backlight for the giant touch screen in the middle of the dash, though it flashes on again for things like a phone connecting by Bluetooth, etc.

We mostly left the engine off while watching, I have a new battery in the car this year, partly because the 5-year-old battery died after an hour of listening to the radio one January afternoon. We did have to start the car for running the wipers, which gave nuisance lighting inside - but thankfully the parking brake set kept the DRLs off so we didn't disturb others. There were a few other customers that night who had trouble with this, and we periodically saw headlamps come on behind us. I had to block the alarm flasher with a map. Next time I'll bring painter's tape to cover interior lights.

I brought along a portable radio to get the sound; when I was a kid, there's be a big speaker box you'd drive up to and hang on your window. Now you have to use your car radio. Probably better sound, but modern cars cut off the auxiliary power after 20 minutes.

We also needed to run the engine when we started getting condensation on the windows...unlike the old days, you can't roll the window down with a crank.

Primary flashlight for finding my way to the concession stand was the Olight SR2, which also got used in moonlight mode as a night light in the hotel. It was quite nostalgic to have a $10 concession trip, though in my youth that would have provided snacks for the whole family, not just a bucket of popcorn and a bag of Twizzlers. I had brought my 13-year-old Quark AA for night light duty in the hotel, but threw in the SR2 thinking I might want more light in a parking lot. I also had my two keychain lights, which were very useful for unloading the car at night. I also found them useful at the single-street Mennonite village near Altona - those 1890's house-barns have lots of interesting dark corners, and daylight through the windows doesn't always reach.

I wonder if Teslas have a drive-in mode that suppresses all lights and still lets you run the vent fan and wipers?


What movie? I almost forgot- the new 2025 "Naked Gun". If you liked the originals this one will suit you just fine. Liam Neeson is a surprisingly credible Frank Drebbin Jr., mostly because he plays it completely straight and lets the script do the comedy. And Clippy the Paperclip saves the day at one critical point - Clippy just wants to help!


Bill
 
Kitchen Panda said:
We got out of town just for a couple of days - our goal was sight-seeing and to take in a drive-in movie at one of the last three drive-ins in Manitoba. I haven't seen a movie at a drive-in since I was a kid.

My wife was amused when I said I'd packed six flashlights for our two nights on the road, not counting the flashlight and headlamp in the car...she thought perhaps this was 1 or 2 over what I might have needed. In my defence, I always have the two keychain lights, and the Maglight AAA in the tactical bag is always there anyway,and the AAA Nova in the first-aid bag doesn't count, so it's really only two lights packed for the purpose.

Only going to a drive-in lets you realize how many lights are in your car. At least we could turn off our daytime running lights by setting the parking brake. Unlike our neighbor, who was taping trash bags over his lights as we waited for dusk. I asked him if he knew about the parking brake trick and he said his former Toyota did this, but the current vehicle doesn't. He enjoyed hearing that our 2018 Camry has this feature that I'd only discovered the day of the movie. Meanwhile my loving wife was killing herself laughing when I admitted I had trash bags and duct tape in our car for the same purpose. (I'd even done a test in the garage before leaving, to see how much heat would build up - not too much, I expect.)

When I was a boy, you could turn off all the interior lights with the dashboard dimmer...that doesn't work any more. I can dim the instrument cluster down a bit, but the A/C controls and PRNDL indicator stay at full brightness. Particularly annoying is the car alarm waning flasher. At least one can turn off the backlight for the giant touch screen in the middle of the dash, though it flashes on again for things like a phone connecting by Bluetooth, etc.

We mostly left the engine off while watching, I have a new battery in the car this year, partly because the 5-year-old battery died after an hour of listening to the radio one January afternoon. We did have to start the car for running the wipers, which gave nuisance lighting inside - but thankfully the parking brake set kept the DRLs off so we didn't disturb others. There were a few other customers that night who had trouble with this, and we periodically saw headlamps come on behind us. I had to block the alarm flasher with a map. Next time I'll bring painter's tape to cover interior lights.

I brought along a portable radio to get the sound; when I was a kid, there's be a big speaker box you'd drive up to and hang on your window. Now you have to use your car radio. Probably better sound, but modern cars cut off the auxiliary power after 20 minutes.

We also needed to run the engine when we started getting condensation on the windows...unlike the old days, you can't roll the window down with a crank.

Primary flashlight for finding my way to the concession stand was the Olight SR2, which also got used in moonlight mode as a night light in the hotel. It was quite nostalgic to have a $10 concession trip, though in my youth that would have provided snacks for the whole family, not just a bucket of popcorn and a bag of Twizzlers. I had brought my 13-year-old Quark AA for night light duty in the hotel, but threw in the SR2 thinking I might want more light in a parking lot. I also had my two keychain lights, which were very useful for unloading the car at night. I also found them useful at the single-street Mennonite village near Altona - those 1890's house-barns have lots of interesting dark corners, and daylight through the windows doesn't always reach.

I wonder if Teslas have a drive-in mode that suppresses all lights and still lets you run the vent fan and wipers?


What movie? I almost forgot- the new 2025 "Naked Gun". If you liked the originals this one will suit you just fine. Liam Neeson is a surprisingly credible Frank Drebbin Jr., mostly because he plays it completely straight and lets the script do the comedy. And Clippy the Paperclip saves the day at one critical point - Clippy just wants to help!


Bill
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Sounds like drive-ins are just waiting for a revival and some redesign to be a great experience.
 
Every night, I walk my dogs on my property and use my Lanapple. We have coyotes and lions here, so having a pocket light with a wall of light helps, throw is decent for a reylight, as its been modified to take 3 LEDs.
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jon_slider said:
My cat likes to bring me live mice, which she releases at my feet.
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Oh! I know why she does that. Your cat loves you.... and sees you as a giant cat. (Very common among cats.) Problem is, she never sees you hunt. Your cat thinks you're an incompetent hunter. Doesn't want you to slowly starve to death. So, she's bringing you fresh food in the form of those mice. She's basically telling you, "Here, eat this. I know you're hungry. You suck at hunting. I got this for you. Eat up!"
 
Also.... Less than 24 hours ago, at my 3rd Shift job, used my Streamlight ProTac 1AAA C4 LED (88049) flashlight to check out some black thing on the ground that looked odd. Once the light hit it, I realized it was a badly crushed black plastic spoon. Likely got run over by a large, heavy vehicle in the parking lot.
 
Monocrom said:
Oh! I know why she does that. Your cat loves you.... and sees you as a giant cat. (Very common among cats.) Problem is, she never sees you hunt. Your cat thinks you're an incompetent hunter. Doesn't want you to slowly starve to death. So, she's bringing you fresh food in the form of those mice. She's basically telling you, "Here, eat this. I know you're hungry. You suck at hunting. I got this for you. Eat up!"
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I believe this is the right answer.
 
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