SomeoneSomewhere
Newly Enlightened
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- Jan 8, 2008
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Thought I would toss this out there since I've had my D10 since the first shipment batch, and I'm super happy with my purchase.
This is my first "quality" flashlight I've bought; I started buying a few after the huge power outage in Oklahoma and I was without lights for a few days. We had nothing but the enormous(ly weak) incandescent flashlights flashaholics scoff at. Not even up to the quality of a maglite. It was after spending a few nights in winter darkness that I realized the usefulness of a good flashlight buy I bought my first few without the benefit of CPF and ended up with some random and not very useful purchases. I started out with some Pelican flashlights and while searching for reviews on the different models found flashlightreviews.com which led me here.
I preordered the D10 after reading the massive number of posts anticipating it and got one in the first wave shipped. I was super impressed of course because I'm not used to that nice a white beam coming from an LED or a single AA battery and I've had fun playing with it but the useful became clear later.
I went with my brother and some other people to Lake Eufala and knowing we will be camping out in front of his in-laws trailer I knew it would be useful to have a couple of flashlights so I took an E01 and the D10. We decided to drive across the lake 20 minutes to watch the fireworks shoot off which of course leaves us on the water in the dark. My brother tried to put up the beacon light but it's broken- despite working the week before.
Aha! I brought my flashlights on board because I had a twinkling they might be needed while we are out in the dark. I used the E01 so we could look at the pole and see what's wrong; a metal contact is missing so its not making a connection and lighting up. What about just using E01 attached to the pole somehow?
My brother explains that we need the light shining out in all directions, not in just a beam. But wait! I read CPF and know a chapstick cap fits the E01. A girl on the boat has some so we stick that on there and tie it to the pole with some shoelaces from her boyfriends shoes. Now have a nice pink light. I still have the D10 for doing some miscellaneous unmentionables on board and as we're about to leave my brother doubts the E01 is bright enough so I ramp the D10 to max brightness.
"Wow that's bright!" Everyone exclaims. So now we exchange the E01 for my D10, after I ramp it down a bit for better runtime, with a tissue puffed over the tip secured with a hair scrunchie. And wouldn't you know it works as bright as everyone else's functional beacons and we're able to drive back to our dock. Incidentally on the way back we saw several boats rocking in dangerously close wake because they had no lights on and were nearly hit.
"Thank God we brought [SomeoneSomewhere], or we would have had to sleep over there and wait for morning to leave." My brother begins when he relates the story, "He's like friggin' MacGyver."
So that's the tale of how useful it was for me to carry a flashlight. Through the whole weekend it (and the E01) had spent time in boardshorts soaking in lake water, in my pocket diving into the water, and helped light up a clearing while we set up a tent.
Just thought I would share another story of how useful it is to have a light and how tough and usable I found the D10 to be this weekend. And I still haven't even had to change the cheap Duracell battery I threw in when I got it in the mail two weeks ago!
This is my first "quality" flashlight I've bought; I started buying a few after the huge power outage in Oklahoma and I was without lights for a few days. We had nothing but the enormous(ly weak) incandescent flashlights flashaholics scoff at. Not even up to the quality of a maglite. It was after spending a few nights in winter darkness that I realized the usefulness of a good flashlight buy I bought my first few without the benefit of CPF and ended up with some random and not very useful purchases. I started out with some Pelican flashlights and while searching for reviews on the different models found flashlightreviews.com which led me here.
I preordered the D10 after reading the massive number of posts anticipating it and got one in the first wave shipped. I was super impressed of course because I'm not used to that nice a white beam coming from an LED or a single AA battery and I've had fun playing with it but the useful became clear later.
I went with my brother and some other people to Lake Eufala and knowing we will be camping out in front of his in-laws trailer I knew it would be useful to have a couple of flashlights so I took an E01 and the D10. We decided to drive across the lake 20 minutes to watch the fireworks shoot off which of course leaves us on the water in the dark. My brother tried to put up the beacon light but it's broken- despite working the week before.
Aha! I brought my flashlights on board because I had a twinkling they might be needed while we are out in the dark. I used the E01 so we could look at the pole and see what's wrong; a metal contact is missing so its not making a connection and lighting up. What about just using E01 attached to the pole somehow?
My brother explains that we need the light shining out in all directions, not in just a beam. But wait! I read CPF and know a chapstick cap fits the E01. A girl on the boat has some so we stick that on there and tie it to the pole with some shoelaces from her boyfriends shoes. Now have a nice pink light. I still have the D10 for doing some miscellaneous unmentionables on board and as we're about to leave my brother doubts the E01 is bright enough so I ramp the D10 to max brightness.
"Wow that's bright!" Everyone exclaims. So now we exchange the E01 for my D10, after I ramp it down a bit for better runtime, with a tissue puffed over the tip secured with a hair scrunchie. And wouldn't you know it works as bright as everyone else's functional beacons and we're able to drive back to our dock. Incidentally on the way back we saw several boats rocking in dangerously close wake because they had no lights on and were nearly hit.
"Thank God we brought [SomeoneSomewhere], or we would have had to sleep over there and wait for morning to leave." My brother begins when he relates the story, "He's like friggin' MacGyver."
So that's the tale of how useful it was for me to carry a flashlight. Through the whole weekend it (and the E01) had spent time in boardshorts soaking in lake water, in my pocket diving into the water, and helped light up a clearing while we set up a tent.
Just thought I would share another story of how useful it is to have a light and how tough and usable I found the D10 to be this weekend. And I still haven't even had to change the cheap Duracell battery I threw in when I got it in the mail two weeks ago!
