voodoogreg
Flashlight Enthusiast
nothing fancy save the one, but basically:
UPS brung my CC gov't CMG infinity ultra. darker OD green, no lanyard, but a clip. light's the same, this one s'a smidge brighter, if at all. this i think is my fav light. not the brightest, but easy to use, tuff just a good fit for me.
all three dorcy MM looking dude's: single AAA, single AA w/3leds' and 2AA 4led. had to return the 2AA twice, no o ring on first, next one, stripped or bad machined tail cap.
shoddy built real good power. all three exceed what i thought I would get. the 4-LED/2/AA is about as much light as I would ever need.
Garrity K-9 aluminium. i ended up with three of these! my best friend got one after he had seen my small collection of light's.
(and called me a flashlite nerd whenever he could,then saw this forum and said" ch***t you mean to tell me there are other light's nerd's like you?! well, now he's on his way, he got a PT ecplise, K-9, and brinkman something, pretty bright)
Anyhoo, then I went out that night and got one @ wally world, 2 days later He bought me one as a gift. the next day, i told my girl friend about it while in wally's again, and being french didn't quite get the part of " i already got two" as "we should get two for us" so I now have two titanium and one black.
I like these light's! maybe not super powerful, but pretty good, seem tough enough, and has a very tight/bright beam i dig. I hadn't seen a narrow LED yet, aside from the top o line arc and inova. should hold me over till i can get an arc 4+-P. (hey, maybe i can get another screwed up english/french translation of " i really need a +4-p, lsh-p, and one each premium AAA and AA /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/naughty.gif) for $12.77 i think there great lite's, concidering how much better made they are then the dorcy at almost half the price of a dorcy 2/AA. now having three to play with, i noticed one is a little less bright, I know led's vary, and that's why had picked ones from the better companies are more consistent, but could it be the batteries, since there cheapo alkalines? no big deal, just a tad less bright and symetrical
Next up a pelican L1. little single/w coin batt's and lanyard, and colored lense's. bright lilttle sucker! i read on the brock's review site it's overdriven, so there ya go.
I know it doesn't really matter, but I do like the aluminium cases's, I know plastic ploy is tuff, but it's a learned response from yr's with mini mags. it's beam is pretty diffused, and it's not that ergonomic, but i think it will do fine in a guitar case if i forget my ultra or K-9, but for 13$ i guess i expected more.(local harware store, i am sure it's cheaper on a CPF banner retailer, but i was there and so was it.)
last, i ordered a TerraLUX MiniSTAR2 drop in. i was torn between the optalec (SP?) but the spec's, luxeon LED, and ability to still adjust the spot to flood, not much as a std MM, but a little sold me. may still get a NewBeam opalec.
so there's my sordid tale how'd I do on the bottom feeder LED's? what about my drop in choice? ok for the $$. any other good sugested light's? VDG
UPS brung my CC gov't CMG infinity ultra. darker OD green, no lanyard, but a clip. light's the same, this one s'a smidge brighter, if at all. this i think is my fav light. not the brightest, but easy to use, tuff just a good fit for me.
all three dorcy MM looking dude's: single AAA, single AA w/3leds' and 2AA 4led. had to return the 2AA twice, no o ring on first, next one, stripped or bad machined tail cap.
shoddy built real good power. all three exceed what i thought I would get. the 4-LED/2/AA is about as much light as I would ever need.
Garrity K-9 aluminium. i ended up with three of these! my best friend got one after he had seen my small collection of light's.
(and called me a flashlite nerd whenever he could,then saw this forum and said" ch***t you mean to tell me there are other light's nerd's like you?! well, now he's on his way, he got a PT ecplise, K-9, and brinkman something, pretty bright)
Anyhoo, then I went out that night and got one @ wally world, 2 days later He bought me one as a gift. the next day, i told my girl friend about it while in wally's again, and being french didn't quite get the part of " i already got two" as "we should get two for us" so I now have two titanium and one black.
I like these light's! maybe not super powerful, but pretty good, seem tough enough, and has a very tight/bright beam i dig. I hadn't seen a narrow LED yet, aside from the top o line arc and inova. should hold me over till i can get an arc 4+-P. (hey, maybe i can get another screwed up english/french translation of " i really need a +4-p, lsh-p, and one each premium AAA and AA /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/naughty.gif) for $12.77 i think there great lite's, concidering how much better made they are then the dorcy at almost half the price of a dorcy 2/AA. now having three to play with, i noticed one is a little less bright, I know led's vary, and that's why had picked ones from the better companies are more consistent, but could it be the batteries, since there cheapo alkalines? no big deal, just a tad less bright and symetrical
Next up a pelican L1. little single/w coin batt's and lanyard, and colored lense's. bright lilttle sucker! i read on the brock's review site it's overdriven, so there ya go.
I know it doesn't really matter, but I do like the aluminium cases's, I know plastic ploy is tuff, but it's a learned response from yr's with mini mags. it's beam is pretty diffused, and it's not that ergonomic, but i think it will do fine in a guitar case if i forget my ultra or K-9, but for 13$ i guess i expected more.(local harware store, i am sure it's cheaper on a CPF banner retailer, but i was there and so was it.)
last, i ordered a TerraLUX MiniSTAR2 drop in. i was torn between the optalec (SP?) but the spec's, luxeon LED, and ability to still adjust the spot to flood, not much as a std MM, but a little sold me. may still get a NewBeam opalec.
so there's my sordid tale how'd I do on the bottom feeder LED's? what about my drop in choice? ok for the $$. any other good sugested light's? VDG
