You Just Know Your A Flashaholic When......

[Hooked on Fenix]

When you ask a family member or friend what they want as a gift for a birthday, Christmas, etc. and the answer is unanimously, “anything other than flashlights and batteries”.

 

[Monocrom]

When you do gear reviews on your YouTube channel, and you know you'll never run out of new content; simply because you have practically an endless pit of flashlights you still haven't reviewed yet.

(I might run out of content in about 2 decades.) 😆

 

[mikekoz]

When you cannot afford food, rent, mortgage, clothing, and pay your bills, but still order lights from Amazon!!

 

[scalpel_ninja]

When you see a light for sale and then a little voice says you’ve owned that light before. Then you check your sales/email/shipment archives and realize you’ve owned it twice before, modified them, and sold them. You go back to the sale page, thinking if it might be different this time, maybe a different modification? Some time has passed since the last ownership and maybe life’s needs have become better suited to it now? Or— Oh! one of your own sales went though, so there’s extra cash and you buy the light for a third time.

 

[Chauncey Gardiner]

When you calculate how many hours you'll need to work to pay for a new light.

Or, when it's a new offering from Foursevens so you don't care how many hours you'll have to work to purchase it.

 

[Monocrom]

When you calculate how many hours you'll need to work to pay for a new light.

Or, when it's a new offering from Foursevens so you don't care how many hours you'll have to work to purchase it.

Just need a 2nd job. No worries. 👨‍🏭

 

[Sabrewulf]

When your flashlight has its own flashlight.

 

[Hooked on Fenix]

When your flashlight has its own flashlight.

Does a Coleman Quad lantern count? It has four separate detachable light panels to each use as flashlights.

 

[bykfixer]

The bulb on your 1950's 1aa flashlight blows so instead of using one of your other 15 or so other vintage 1aa flashlights, you go find a box of random bulbs in the spare room and replace the bulb.

Now in that random box of bulbs was only 1 #112 bulb left and you know you have a bunch of vintge #112 bulbs somewhere, but where?

The beam of the modern #112 bulb looks like it has a question mark in the center and that just won't do so you go online and discover you have some cash back bonus $ so you buy 20 more #112 bulbs just in case you don't find the who knows how many you already have you just don't know where they are at the moment.

 

[bykfixer]

When you see at least two flashlights in the Star Trek TNG video menu

 

[knucklegary]

By the shape of tailcaps they look like Kel-lite B-Lites

 

[ampdude]

Your boss gives everyone flashlights for Christmas and you're the only one excited by it.

 

[Poppy]

By the shape of tailcaps they look like Kel-lite B-Lites

I had to chuckle at this.
Not only did you see the lights, you could name a specific model.

I remember when I first came here, about the only brand I knew was Maglite. I was stunned by how many people recognized and spoke of models by their four letter names, not even mentioning the manufacturer's name.

TK35, TN11, TN30, S2+, E01, TK22 still rocks ;-)

 

[bykfixer]

But how many people still here remember where "TK 22 still rocks ;-)" came from?

Spoiler: Woods Walker (RIP) sig line

A 2D B-Lite

A 2D Maglite with B-Lite tailcap lego.
Leather holster guru John Bianchi hired Don Keller to design some flashlights. Don hired Tony Maglica to build them, hence the early Maglite and B-Lite ability to lego.

I still rib newbs sometimes when they post having a BB6 or HK49 or what-have-you. It's meant in fun but then again after all these years here I don't know what a brand a BB6 because I may want one and when I type BB6 in my search engine I see Honda cars, not flashlights...

 

[bykfixer]

You're watching Star Trek TNG again and say to anyone in the room "look an LED Lenser P2 beam"

They look at you puzzled so you go grab your P2 hanging around the house somewhere and show them the beam....

The actual P2 beam

 

[chillinn]

@bykfixer, why does the 2D B-Lite appear so much shorter than a Maglite 2D? The Maglite looks like it could hold 3 D cells. The Mag switch and socket?

 

[bykfixer]

Yes....

 

[Jean-Luc Descarte]

When you play a game with perfectly adequate lighting and a functional flashlight, but add a mod for flashlight variety just because.

 

[DaveTheDude]

When you have 5 flashlights and a headlamp in your vehicle, plus batteries.

And this is unusual because...?

 

[aznsx]

And this is unusual because...?

I think he just neglected to mention the other 4 he has in his pants pockets.