what flashlights do you use at work?

[PACKERBACKER]

Im work in the hvac field and find myself working in the dark all the time. Also part of my job in the fall is gassing potato storage buildings so the potatoes wont sprout. After applying the chemical through a huge fogger I have to put on a gas mask, go into the white smoke filled building and do various tasks. So, I need good flashlights for work. Although I have three surefires, I do not use them very often because they have short run time for regular work and 123s are not cheep. But they do have the best beams and are small and very bright. They make good back-ups.

So, when I do normal service work I like to carry my UKE q40 or new uk4aa-as2. I just received my uk300 and it is growing on me.

When I have to strap the old gas mask on and go in a smoke filled storage bin, I have a streamlight lightbox for a primary light and either my uk sl6, sf c3, or new uk300 for back up.

Now you Know what I use at work, I want to know what lights you guys use at work and why?

 

[**DONOTDELETE**]

I work in a machine shop environment, we inspectors share a 2D mag. witch is good but of course is BULKY. I carry a UK 4aa in my back pocket and is very handy and more than adequate.
To my own delight, my coworkers marvel at it!

 

[Albany Tom]

Ok, am I the only one that's bothered by the idea that you have to wear a gas mask to go into the place where they're storing potatoes?!

I just carry my Arc AAA, as I only need a light when something bad happens, or rarely when I have to look inside a computer. Works great for either of these things.

A UK SL6 as a BACKUP light. Wow.

 

[agent8698]

8" TigerLight.

I drive a taxi, and sometimes I'm looking for a house number that is obscured in any of several ways: there is no number on the house, or there is, but it is painted over, or it is low-contrast and hard to read, or it is in an unexpected place on the house, or perhaps the adjacent house has no visible number, either. I need to know which house I'm in front of, and quickly, often with the car still moving, and I might still have to watch for traffic. So now I just turn the tables and "give it a burst of daylight" and force the house to reveal to me its number, or, if there is no visible number, I see that quickly and move on to check the adjacent house, or go back to check the house on the other side, and orient myself quicker and with less guesswork and less frustration. Max

 

[Reaper]

Inretech mini-mag is more than sufficient for use when working on motors and machinery in the shop factories. The light illuminates the working mechanisms more than enough for me to adjust them when they're out of time. Other lights I've used where either too small and dim, too large to handle with one hand and tools in the other, battery dies out right in the middle of a job or just doesn't handle right. Besides, the Inretech is cheap enough to run.

 

[FC.]

2D MagLite

 

[**DONOTDELETE**]

Originally posted by fc-fire/rescue:
2D MagLite

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[rlhess]

I never know what exactly I'll need a light for, so I have a bunch in my car and carry the SF E2e, Arc sLs, and Arc LE, with a SF SC-1 not far away.

The E2e is the best combination of portability and light for the occasional survey of buildings that might want to become TV facilities, or to look into buildings under construction. I was in Mexico City about a month ago and the E2e worked real well in the basement of a building that is now morphing into a TV station. What a rabbit warren! The E2e worked fine.

I had tried the Inova X5 previously and although it was a nice flood, it wasn't any more useful than a minimag on an inspection trip. The E2e changed that.

See my other story about the E2e helping fix a big printer here.

 

[Nerd]

Originally posted by fc-fire/rescue:
2D MagLite

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Prolly modded with some 6AA battery holders holding 6 lithium AA batteries running a 6 volt 25 watt decostar IRC (if such a thing even exist) 10 degree Halogen fixture.

 

[Sean]

A2.

Oh, right, it's not out yet.

For anything I need a lot of light with I now use my 8" Tigerlight. It's bright, small enough to fit in my coat pocket and it's rechargeable.

For close up work I use my Arc LS.

 

[budlight]

Maxmax with the flood reflector in a Mini-Maglite. Also, an Infinity.

 

[Chris M.]

My Classic 9N gives me most of my lighting requirements. As a fire alarm engineer I occasionally venture into attic or floor spaces to find those pesky smoke detectors, and the 9N gives me plenty of light - plus being rechargeable I can use it without worrying about expensive little red batteries getting drained

I always forget to turn room lights off too and get told off about it so often I won`t bother, and just navigate by torch light! At least I won`t forget to turn that one off....

A Mini-M*g fitted with the wonderful Opalec Newbeam module does all my close up duty- usually poking round inside alarm control panels. Although fitted with regular Rayovac Maximums, I can leave that one switched on and burning away for ages without worrying, as it has such a good run-time.

Backed up by an E2 (for when the rechargeable pack in the 9N dies, as it`s increasingly fond of doing) and an Arc LS / 123 pack.

 

[Karpaasi]

ASP tac-lite and surefire 8nx.

 

[Gone Jeepin]

I work in IT and for an animal adoption/rescue group. I never am quite sure what I may need a light for so I always have a few lights with me.

For my IT work I keep the ARC "AAA" handy for close up work. I have an E2e HA in my jacket pocket to find my way around the dark office areas or out of the building in the event of a power outage. I work on an after hours support team so its almost always night.

For my animal adoption/rescue work I have added the M3 and Elite X-ray to the above mentioned lights. I travel to pick up animals all over Michigan that will enter our foster system and be adopted out. There is no way of knowing what may happen out on the road. It is always best to be prepared. The M3 gives me a strong beam to see things at a distance and the X-ray gives me a bright LED work light with strobe features for road emergencies and such.

 

[Stingray]

Surefire 8X, UKE 2AAA and a brand new ARC AAA.

 

[Owen]

We're given Rayovac Industrial 2Ds, but there's not a really good way to carry them, so I keep one of those around when I'm not moving around alot, and a SF E2e/KL1 in a double pouch along with a Leatherman tool on my belt.
The KL1 is enough for getting around in the dark (I'm on 3-11, and sometimes work over 11-7), and any close up work. It's all I "really" use.

 

[tkl]

e2e, a warehouse is sometimes a dark place.

 

[FC.]

SF M6
SL New Survivor
SF E1

 

[lessing]

For every day work I carry an X5T. When I am doing installations of stages and we shut the power off I have a Surge and a taclight for working in panels in the dark.
I need to find a nice cold cathode flourescent if anyone has any ideas.

 

[Stingray]

Surefire 8X, UKE 2AAA and a brand new ARC AAA.