Fire Starting Flashlight

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Optik49

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Check this out.

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Surefires just aren't cutting it for you anymore? Well, perhaps its time you stepped up and got yourself a real man's flashlight!

What makes this flashlight so powerful? A few things. First, there's some batteries. And not just a few, but 12 1.2V NiMH (rechargable) batteries capable of sustained 10 amp draws. They're in a nice, heavy duty battery carrier that can withstand the load as well.

Then there's the bulb. It's an Osram HLX 64623. This is a 12V bulb which is being overdriven to 14+V, to about 140 watts, with an estimated light output of about 4000 lumens. Compare that to a regular 2D MagLight, which is much, much less than 50 lumens.
 
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This is a similiar mod by a different moder but uses an extra battery bringing the voltage to 15.6V. It produces an estimated 4400 bulb lumens, close to 3000 out the front and lights newspaper on fire in about 1 second. I leave the tailcap off when I'm not using it for safety reasons. It's fun to use as a secondary light when walking at the park at night. The guys at work call it the stadium light. :)

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