Since I smoke cigarettes, I have been looking for the perfect EDC refillable lighter, and now I might have found it - a lighter with a build in LED:
It had an ugly blue LED when I got it, so I swapped it with a Nichia CS. Here is a some beam shots, before and after swapping. The second beam shot shows a comparison with the new Arc AAA. The brighter one is the Arc AAA:
Since my camera won't focus properly, when I take pictures of a white screen, I took some pictures of my mini lathe. The first one is with the lighter as light source; the second one is with the Arc AAA as light source:
Finally some pictures of the lighter disassembled:
I must say, I am very pleased with the lighter. Only thing is that it uses L736 button batteries, but they only const like $0.25 /pcs anyway, so no big deal.
It had an ugly blue LED when I got it, so I swapped it with a Nichia CS. Here is a some beam shots, before and after swapping. The second beam shot shows a comparison with the new Arc AAA. The brighter one is the Arc AAA:
Since my camera won't focus properly, when I take pictures of a white screen, I took some pictures of my mini lathe. The first one is with the lighter as light source; the second one is with the Arc AAA as light source:
Finally some pictures of the lighter disassembled:
I must say, I am very pleased with the lighter. Only thing is that it uses L736 button batteries, but they only const like $0.25 /pcs anyway, so no big deal.
