What do you use your LED light for?

[joepa150]

I know this sounds like a dumb question but what specific application/s do you usually find yourself using you light for. I am just trying to talk myself into buying my first light. I just don't know how often I will use it. I probably will carry it on me and keep it by my bedside. Besides using it a lot at first, wants I get that out of my system I may only really need it once a week for a few minutes.

Can anyone tell me what they use their lights for and how often?

Do you use it more than you thought you would?

 

[Warp]

Do you have any flashlights right now?


Every single residence should contain at least one reliable flashlight, just in case.

And having one on your person, just in case, is even better. If you are home so is it, if you are out....still covered. I don't need a flashlight very often. But it is frequently a nice convenience and when you need it, well, it's a PITA not to have.

Uses: Finding things in low light/dark, even just on the floor or under the seat of your vehicle, moving around the house at night without turning the lights on and blinding yourself/waking people up, scoping out the far corner of your yard, power outages, looking into electronics cases, lighting up dark/recessed/shadowing areas during the day or indoors, checking out your yard/house at night, etc. Many non-dark locations are poorly lit and full of areas that you could see so much better with a little help...

 

[Robin24k]

Walking around the house at night without waking other people up, getting from the light switch to your bed, peering behind a desktop computer, walking at night, working under the hood, power outages, etc.

I'm sure you'll find plenty of use for a light.

 

[SirJMD]

- Walking the dogs.
- Fixing computers.
- Bike light.
- EDC for whatever i might need it.

 

[cubsfan02]

I use mine for police work. I have the stinger LED on my belt and Eagle Tac T20C2 on my bag in the car. Eagle Tac works fantastic to light up dark tinted cars at night. And the throw is amazing. Better than any other lights I have.

For home uses, I just ran some TV hdmi and cable lines through my walls yesterday and was stuck using one of my many cheap, non-led lights I have laying around my house. I really wish I had one of my LED's. Would have made things much easier.

I highly recommend getting an LED light. Even if you only use it once in a great while, it's still a great investment.

 

[Launch Mini]

Finding crap in the shed, under the stairs, instead of using a bunch of hall lights in the house to get to my office, picking up dog doodoo at night, tormenting the cats ( I should get a laser for this), anything involving the cabin at night ( reading, walks, playing cards, general illumination, checking on the boat, wildlife, caving, geocaching......)
That is my story & i'm sticking to it.

Actually, recently I started using it to light up the small print on packaging, menus.... Works almost as well as my reading glasses to make the print more legible.

 

[mcnair55]

In the day my EDC light is a need for work,gets used for a few short bursts never on for more than a couple of minutes at a time.

In the evening it lights my very dark path up as I live on an old dis-used farm with no security lighting once the car park light has run its short automated time.

Once indoors I swap over to my evening EDC (Fenix EO1) which I use for lighting the bathroom and kitchen if I do not need to spend any real time in there as both rooms have tubed lighting and I have always been told that it costs as much to start them than to run them for an hour or so( no idea if this true or urban myth)

I am now hooked on the things (Lights) and collect as many as I can but prefer the tiny ones with any single cell AAA-AA-123

 

[Flying Turtle]

I don't need all my lights for any special reasons. Just the normal stuff. But if you have one with you, even in the daytime, there will be times it is most useful. At night I don't use a lot of house lights, at least after my wife goes to sleep. Silly? Maybe, but I don't care. It's a hobby and I'm having fun.

Geoff

 

[Pete Mcrash]

allways like torches......it's a man thing..??...but now (after discovering DX) i find myself buying "different" kinds of lights...then i was told about this site....now i want to mod all my lights....pmsl.....i've now just bought my 5 & 3 year old there first "propper" torch....they love them...i'm doomed....but to answer you're question, i just use mine for FUN really......i'm begging for a power cut.......lol

 

[SuperTrouper]

tubed lighting and I have always been told that it costs as much to start them than to run them for an hour or so( no idea if this true or urban myth)

I heard it was only 20 minutes, but still it's cost effective to use a light instead!

 

[mknewman]

I've found my flashlights work equally as well at annoying my wife as a laser pointer does a cat!

 

[Lumenly Challenged]

First post!
The best use I have for my LED light is lighting up a book to read my 2 year old daughter,on low while my wife walks in to put my sleeping 7 month (preflashaholic) son in the crib.

Some others:
Finding a womans wedding ring during a formal (dimly lit) dinner
Checking the water level in the humidifier-from outside the device
Signaling oncoming traffic at accident scene
Checking for obstructed bore in a machine gun
The occasional blast for an unsuspecting coworker

I should stop here, the uses are endless..Get a couple dozen you will find them indispensible.
:thumbsup:

 

[Swedpat]

1: use for practical purposes: bike light, when needing a light for walking at dark places, power outages (though I have not experienced this the last 10 years...)

2: use just for fun: for toilet visits at night, going to dark places just for the reason to use a flashlight, switching off the househould lights for the reason to use flashlights, demonstrate the lights for friends etc...

 

[swrdply400mrelay]

zebralight for studying and reading, the wife uses when she brushes the dog's teeth or clips its nails

other lights for walking the dog, getting around at night when the wife is sleeping

liteflux lf2xt neutral emitter to look into patient's mouths and check their eyes, it's also a good distraction for little kids when you're doing a physical exam on them

 

[swrdply400mrelay]

I have always been told that it costs as much to start them than to run them for an hour or so( no idea if this true or urban myth)

Mythbusters on Discovery actually did an episode on it...the verdict was actually 20-30 seconds

 

[Jash]

- Camping
- Feeding the cat
- Getting up to kids at night
- Walking at night
- Around the house at night (mains lights are too bright when you've been asleep for a couple of hours)
- On my bike (night riding is the best)
- Shining them at the neighbours barking dog to get it to shut up
- Playing hide and seek with the kids
- Looking for small things behind/under furniture
- Power outages
- Checking on the chickens
- Inspections at work
- Home maintenance
- Getting things our of kids noses/ears/hair

Not at all in that order.

 

[mcnair55]

Mythbusters on Discovery actually did an episode on it...the verdict was actually 20-30 seconds

Now now do not spoil my fun of using my led lights to save money

 

[funkymonkey1111]

- Walking the dogs.
- Bike light.
- EDC for whatever i might need it.

these, plus camping, walking down hiking trails--anything outdoors at night--generally with an LED headlamp, too

 

[Locoboy5150]

I have my larger lights like my Fenix TK40 and my 4 D cell Maglite for use around the house. It's fun to use flashlights instead of turning on the lights when I'm going from one side of the house to the other. Also, if there's a bump in the middle of the night in my backyard, out comes the TK40 in turbo mode.

My two EDC lights (mini-Mag 2 AA and Fenix LD20) are there for general use mainly when I'm either out of the house or so tied working on something at home that I can't run into the house to get a larger light. I do a lot of home and auto repair and I find that smaller AA sized lights lime my EDC ones are great at putting plenty of light in tight spaces where a normal AC powered work light just won't fit. Until you EDC a light, you just don't know how handy they are in day to day life.

 

[Flint&Steel]

Like you, I was a little hesitant about getting an EDC light, but now that I've had mine for two weeks, I must say that I don't regret the decision one bit. I find myself leaving the lights off in the basement/garage/rooms in the house just so I can deploy my light. I carry a knife in my right front pocket and my light in the left front, and find myself using the light much more than the knife. I can't wait to take it camping!

Pull the trigger and buy a light, even if you don't EDC it, it's always nice to have around the house.