What is your storm light ?

[**DONOTDELETE**]

It's that time of year again and the lights start to flicker while the winds pick up here in the midwest . I just bought a High Gain 4 AA and installed a set of lithiums and modded it with a find-it red blinker LED . I wanted something a little more powerful for a strom light and the mod worker great for telling if the lamp was good and relative charge on the battery ( only 12 ma draw on the blinky LED ) .

What's your favorite stormlight ?

Just wondering ...

 

[Lux Luthor]

I don't have a light specifically for storms, since this is automatically covered by my normal system.

What I prefer is two lights: One for area illumination, and one for long range spotting. Any 3 or 4 LED light will be able to light up a dark room adequately, and will have long run time. If it's in the form of an LED headlamp, it will free your hands up, which could be useful in the event that storm becomes an actual emergency. You may also consider an LS for this purpose.

Your choice of a 4AA light is good for use as a regular flashlight. This is what I generally use.

I also keep a battery charger in my car, in case the outage gets really long.

 

[tygger]

any pictures of this light? who makes it?

 

[revolvergeek]

Just cobble a cheap storm light together. Bought a Everyrady Waterproof 4D lantern and stuck the bulb from my hotrodded Cool Blue in it.

It should run forever on 4 D cells, and the blub works much better in the lattern due to the larger, partially orange peal reflector. Lights up a room ok (stuck a sheet of writeright on the lens), and unlike most LED lights will throw its beam easily 50 or 60 feet.

Will also have a couple of UK 4AA around with litiums in them as well.

 

[jeff1500]

Making a storm light is what got me started on this whole led thing.

http://edusite10.tripod.com/led3/max757/max757.html

This is the best I've made so far. I'm trying to think up another dimmer design.

 

[StuU]

Creekhiker- I built an led conversion using one of these 4AA Higain lights and it's probably the best led light I have. However, I can't find anymore of them. Where did you purchase yours??????

 

[**DONOTDELETE**]

FYI -

The High Gain 4AA is marketed under the name "Searchlight" , I bought mine at a local owned hardware store . It's a 4 AA flat design that uses a frenz lens and large reflector about 3 inches in diameter .

It's very easy to mod with a bi-pin lamp that takes 5 mm LED ( easy to switch back and forth ) and easy to jumper out one of the four batteries for the lower voltage of the LED lamp .

My dad told me he used the large reflectors from model "T" Ford headlights on his carbide lamps to magnify the light output . It works for LED's too .

 

[StuU]

I found one of these at a flea market. I put in a Nichia 5600 and substituted one of the batteries with a 33ohm resistor. Once I got the led centered, it produced a nearly perfect round beam. Nice.