voodoogreg
Flashlight Enthusiast
SF E1e: thought\'s after 3 weeks,& my new EDC......
I have been using my new E1e for a enough time to get a good feel for it, and I have found it seductively has become my EDC.My previous EDC had been my ARC LSH-P for a couple of month's, but now when I leave the house lately, (mostly for
dr's and hospitals,,,the gallbladder fiasco) I find it's in my pocket or around my neck, on the same cheap backstage pass/coach's whistle type lanyard, I use on my ARC, and E2d.
I guess when I break it down, the size is perfect, not unlike the LSH-P, and as with the first SF i bought,(E2d) it has amazed me with how bright it is for it's size! It's beam is a good bit tighter then the 2d, and the throw is impressive to me IMHO,for a 1 batt small headed light that fit's in your palm.It also came with the clickie! i hate the turn for full on SW. I had bought it primarly to use as a KL-1 host, but I will now be buying another for that purpose.
Yeah run time is worse then a LS arc, but better then the 2d, and i am one of those guy's that use a light momentarly
rather then turn on and leave on, so I have only ran two batt's down, including the SF that came with it, and didn't last more then a 2-3 day's.(then died like it had been shut off. you go surfire. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif)
but after that 123 shootout thread,i think 20-40 batt station's will be on the way as soon as I get back on my feet, financially. (If you didn't see the shootout do so, the batt stn's and one other pretty much mimicked the duracell ultra, my fav batt) so no real big deal there.
It's one of those thing's that you can't put your finger on, but we all have had the experinace: find something that is just "right" with you, that it become's intuitive, It's not the best, or coolest, thing but just "is".
I also have a new fav small backup/keychain light I love! during my down time with the surgeries, I made one of those quickbeam/flashlight review's solitaire "quick mod". I robbed a LED from a dollar store button light that was pretty bright, had about 5 or 6 soli's around,(my KC lite till I found the PT eclipse) and once i got the bug's worked out, led color aside I loved it. I by chance stopped into my local electronic's suppy shop and asked if they had any white LED's for flashlight making, they did,, I had never heard of them on CPF, but it was a NTE 5mm, that said "supe bright" on it. I am a noob on this stuff but, it said 4000mcd and 8degree angle. this ended up being much brighter, and a more focused beam with throw! I finally got around to making another, and experimented with and changed few thing's, different spring that is got a special coating,
and couple of changes to the head/reflector len's setup.
I now have a great KC light, that is almost if not as bright as my arc AAA,but better throw, and small.those funky batteries it uses are still going strong,(the one on my key's is starting to dim now though) are in every walmart or kmart, and at 1.77 for two, not really a problem either.
I also felt as sense of acomplishment since i don't know that much about what make's light's work.
So anyhoo, there's my thought's on acouple of light's, I am
pretty attached to now, thanks to the CPF. peace, VDG
I have been using my new E1e for a enough time to get a good feel for it, and I have found it seductively has become my EDC.My previous EDC had been my ARC LSH-P for a couple of month's, but now when I leave the house lately, (mostly for
dr's and hospitals,,,the gallbladder fiasco) I find it's in my pocket or around my neck, on the same cheap backstage pass/coach's whistle type lanyard, I use on my ARC, and E2d.
I guess when I break it down, the size is perfect, not unlike the LSH-P, and as with the first SF i bought,(E2d) it has amazed me with how bright it is for it's size! It's beam is a good bit tighter then the 2d, and the throw is impressive to me IMHO,for a 1 batt small headed light that fit's in your palm.It also came with the clickie! i hate the turn for full on SW. I had bought it primarly to use as a KL-1 host, but I will now be buying another for that purpose.
Yeah run time is worse then a LS arc, but better then the 2d, and i am one of those guy's that use a light momentarly
rather then turn on and leave on, so I have only ran two batt's down, including the SF that came with it, and didn't last more then a 2-3 day's.(then died like it had been shut off. you go surfire. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif)
but after that 123 shootout thread,i think 20-40 batt station's will be on the way as soon as I get back on my feet, financially. (If you didn't see the shootout do so, the batt stn's and one other pretty much mimicked the duracell ultra, my fav batt) so no real big deal there.
It's one of those thing's that you can't put your finger on, but we all have had the experinace: find something that is just "right" with you, that it become's intuitive, It's not the best, or coolest, thing but just "is".
I also have a new fav small backup/keychain light I love! during my down time with the surgeries, I made one of those quickbeam/flashlight review's solitaire "quick mod". I robbed a LED from a dollar store button light that was pretty bright, had about 5 or 6 soli's around,(my KC lite till I found the PT eclipse) and once i got the bug's worked out, led color aside I loved it. I by chance stopped into my local electronic's suppy shop and asked if they had any white LED's for flashlight making, they did,, I had never heard of them on CPF, but it was a NTE 5mm, that said "supe bright" on it. I am a noob on this stuff but, it said 4000mcd and 8degree angle. this ended up being much brighter, and a more focused beam with throw! I finally got around to making another, and experimented with and changed few thing's, different spring that is got a special coating,
and couple of changes to the head/reflector len's setup.
I now have a great KC light, that is almost if not as bright as my arc AAA,but better throw, and small.those funky batteries it uses are still going strong,(the one on my key's is starting to dim now though) are in every walmart or kmart, and at 1.77 for two, not really a problem either.
I also felt as sense of acomplishment since i don't know that much about what make's light's work.
So anyhoo, there's my thought's on acouple of light's, I am
pretty attached to now, thanks to the CPF. peace, VDG
