yuandrew
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Was actually the day before but I had to replace the igniter on my clothes dryer. 2D MagLED lit up the appliance interior while I worked on it.
What did you use your flashlight for today?
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IMA SOL MAN
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Meh. The van needs more window stickers.
IMA SOL MAN
Flashlight Enthusiast
Tail stood my Maglite 3C ML50LX on the desk for more illumination on the desktop. Eneloops don't last long on high. Need to look into a lithium solution.
Kitchen Panda
Enlightened
Today I set up a Quark AA, Quark 2AA, Olight S2R Baton, and the mighty Fenix TK70 in a bedroom window on the only practical use I've ever made for strobe mode: Halloween decorations. I'd forgotten how to activate strobe on the TK70 and had to look it up! Neighbour says the TK70 beam is particularly effective when aimed at the elm tree on the boulevard.
Strobe lights are kind of scary?
(The Fenix TK70 is running on 10-year-old Tenergy low self discharge D cells....maybe I'll celebrate its birthday and buy it a new set of NiMhD cells, though I suspect for what that would cost I could buy a whole modern flashlight with better performance.)
Strobe lights are kind of scary?
(The Fenix TK70 is running on 10-year-old Tenergy low self discharge D cells....maybe I'll celebrate its birthday and buy it a new set of NiMhD cells, though I suspect for what that would cost I could buy a whole modern flashlight with better performance.)
IMA SOL MAN
Flashlight Enthusiast
Great idea the strobe! I need to remember that for next year. Epileptics won't dare come near my house! Everyone else will think that they are in a horror movie!
I just received an acebeam k1 yesterday. I fed the cats breakfast and as soon as I crawled back into bed, I heard one of them wretching like he just returned from a bachelor party. I grabbed the k1 and narrowly avoided squishing a hairball betwixt my toes. I grabbed paper towels and sanitizing wipes when I heard the barfy baby in the bedroom. I spun around just in time to see him coughing up one of the plants he gets high off of. The little drug addict climbed to the new spot where we put the spider plant so he would stop getting high. He’s smarter than us even with his drug addled brain.
I then used the uv light to check my work and it seems I did a good job. Now to return the light and use the money to get the k1 with the teal laser which is being sold at a premium…maybe he’ll be out of rehab by the time it gets here.
I then used the uv light to check my work and it seems I did a good job. Now to return the light and use the money to get the k1 with the teal laser which is being sold at a premium…maybe he’ll be out of rehab by the time it gets here.
jon_slider
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LOL!
I dont let my cat have catnip anymore.. besides dashing about, she thinks my feet are a chew toy..
I do use my D3AA, set to 0.05 lumens every night, to avoid tripping over her, on my way to the bathroom, and to dodge wet hairballs. (thankfully few lately)
Some nights I use my AA Zebra SC53c N on level 2, which has a similar output, 0.04 lumens.
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IMA SOL MAN
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Where can I get that shirt? I know some people that would identify with that.
Fuzzywuzzies
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Installed the remote motor, vent and ducting for our new range hood. It took a Zebralight SC600Fd for the ceiling work, the trusty Elzetta Bravo 519a for down in the tight corner of the eaves that I had to work in for installing the vent and couldn't see with the head torch, and the Foursevens Maelstrom Flood to draw the insects away for the outside work! Ah springtime.
End of my shift in the morning. (Yup, end of DST snuck up on me; extra hour of mandatory overtime.) Relief comes in, one of the monitors has been down all night. He tries to fix it. Checking all the cords behind the desk. He can't see $#&% because it's dark as hell, and he has no flashlight. We have a 4D-cell floating lantern in the backroom that I put there a couple of years after I started working at that site. Even labeled it "Security" so hopefully no one from maintenance steals it. No, he doesn't grab that. He's my supervisor who hates that term so pretends he's just a co-worker.
Out comes my Nitecore MT1A Pro. Without a word, I light up the area down there he's looking at. All good. Looked at another dark spot. I did the same. No word from him. Turns out it was a loose connector. Needed to be re-plugged into the monitor.
Out comes my Nitecore MT1A Pro. Without a word, I light up the area down there he's looking at. All good. Looked at another dark spot. I did the same. No word from him. Turns out it was a loose connector. Needed to be re-plugged into the monitor.
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This weekend I had to replace the pump on my son's washer. I used my eagtac D25c to light up the primary area I was working on. (It was the light I was EDCing) I also used my Warsun T7 with the magnetic base as a more general lighting to light up behind the washer. I really like the side light on the Warsun for general lighting!
Today ran a 10-year-old LRI Photon II (attached to a jacket zipper pull) though a heavy-duty wash cycle with warm water ... and then through a 50-minute dryer cycle, low to medium heat level. Still with the original battery. Bugger still works like new. World's best-ever EDC flashlight? Nope. But supurb battery life and idiot-proofing.
Jean-Luc Descarte
Flashlight Enthusiast
Another day, another power outage at work. This one was so severe that I couldn't even clock in. Out came the EDCs for the day, a Convoy S16 B35AM and a Sofirn SC13 519A, both in "sunny daylight" 5000k CCT.
Turns out the spring storm we had yesterday featured such strong winds that not only did it rip branches off of many trees and fry the grid in the area, it destroyed a huge glass panel above the front door of my library! It must have bulged inward from the wind pressure until a portion of it came unglued, the rest followed, and CRASH it went. There were scattered glass shards everywhere, several meters away, even in other rooms. Thankfully it was tempered glass so no nasty shards.
The S16, at 10% power, was excellent to light up the scene as I took pictures of the situation as I found it so I could send it to my boss (I get in before anyone else except for a colleague on the same schedule as me, and the cleaning ladies). The photos came out fantastic, the white balance didn't even kick in and the photos were very true to what my eye was seeing.
After that, with both situations at play, we couldn't open to the public, so I sat in a reserved corner, doing my own thing. I used both torches to illuminate the desk, but the SC13 was especially handy with its wide floody beam and strong tail magnet. Even on low it lights up a notebook and textbook very well.
I sat around studying until it was time for my lunch break, at which point I just left for home; no power means no microwave and no way was I going to eat my food fridge-cold.
Very close to the break's end, I'm notified that we were let off for the rest of the day. Score.
The order sure could've come earlier (even the top brass's section at campus was out of power), but I'm not about to look a gift horse in the mouth.
Turns out the spring storm we had yesterday featured such strong winds that not only did it rip branches off of many trees and fry the grid in the area, it destroyed a huge glass panel above the front door of my library! It must have bulged inward from the wind pressure until a portion of it came unglued, the rest followed, and CRASH it went. There were scattered glass shards everywhere, several meters away, even in other rooms. Thankfully it was tempered glass so no nasty shards.
The S16, at 10% power, was excellent to light up the scene as I took pictures of the situation as I found it so I could send it to my boss (I get in before anyone else except for a colleague on the same schedule as me, and the cleaning ladies). The photos came out fantastic, the white balance didn't even kick in and the photos were very true to what my eye was seeing.
After that, with both situations at play, we couldn't open to the public, so I sat in a reserved corner, doing my own thing. I used both torches to illuminate the desk, but the SC13 was especially handy with its wide floody beam and strong tail magnet. Even on low it lights up a notebook and textbook very well.
I sat around studying until it was time for my lunch break, at which point I just left for home; no power means no microwave and no way was I going to eat my food fridge-cold.
Very close to the break's end, I'm notified that we were let off for the rest of the day. Score.
The order sure could've come earlier (even the top brass's section at campus was out of power), but I'm not about to look a gift horse in the mouth.
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I used the iMini 2 attached to the underside of my son’s friends hood when his car wouldn’t start. He just bought it the week before, used, so I assume the car was sitting on the lot with the battery dying A slow death. Couldn’t jumpstart the car so I had to do a battery swap. The light gave me juice through the whole process
PhotonWrangler
Flashaholic
Walked into a dark wiring closet with a contractor to trace some connections. I hit the light switch and... nothing. My PD36R helped us get the job done.
ven
Flashaholic
Ex7 for some walk around inspections. Quite like this and my only actual nitecore light(not a huge fan to be honest ). The UI is definitely funky but can also works well for specific applications. Basically when on, you need to select brightness level. Once selected after a few seconds, pressing button again turns off. Always starts low. So as long as know level, be it 2 or 3 presses etc your good to go. If want to change brightness it turns off first. Inspections wise, the UI is fine, as I often turn off between inspections (could be a 5 min walk for example)
Memory exists, but in the actual beam pattern of the 5 dies. Centre for throw, outer 4 for flood and all 5 together. This can be changed when on and it saves the pattern, pressing and holding the button cycles the 3 options.
Tail stand is even easier with magnetic base.
Not for everyone and do prefer my Fenix LR35 pro, but that is a fair chunk of a light. The ex7 does slip into the pocket easier and it’s noticeably lighter.
Memory exists, but in the actual beam pattern of the 5 dies. Centre for throw, outer 4 for flood and all 5 together. This can be changed when on and it saves the pattern, pressing and holding the button cycles the 3 options.
Tail stand is even easier with magnetic base.
Not for everyone and do prefer my Fenix LR35 pro, but that is a fair chunk of a light. The ex7 does slip into the pocket easier and it’s noticeably lighter.
@ven
I always dig your photos because they generally seem to be shot in an 'industrial' environment, which I'm accustomed to spending 12 hours of my nights in;-). I always feel right at home, and confident that you use your lights in a serious working environment like mine, and figure your observations regarding lights are likely more similar to my own than some others;-)
I always dig your photos because they generally seem to be shot in an 'industrial' environment, which I'm accustomed to spending 12 hours of my nights in;-). I always feel right at home, and confident that you use your lights in a serious working environment like mine, and figure your observations regarding lights are likely more similar to my own than some others;-)
