It's because this stuff is just so stinkin' addictive! It all starts very basic and goes from there. It never occurred to me when I joined this forum that I'd ever buy the stuff in my sig.
Am I crazy? I dunno. My best throwing custom build LED light has been tested at 127,000cp and makes somewhere around 1200L I guess. My :bow:Barn Burner, on the otherhand, I have tested at well over 900,000cp and it makes about 8500L. Sure they both bring me satisfaction as do pretty much all my lights.....but DAMN!...there's just something about that :bow:Barn Burner!!! No LED comes close and I don't know if they will in my lifetime. HID's are just a whole 'nother world.
And then there are the short arcs! Now we're measuring throw rounded off to the nearest MILLION cp! :devil:
But there are certainly more expensive habits...errr, I mean, hobbies! Airplanes, boats, sports cars, motorcycles, drag racing...to name a few. Flashlights, even the big ones, are quite cheap comparatively.