My ability to resist finally broke down last night. My wife is probably not going to let me live down buying another light, but oh well. I went with black on the hope she’s less likely to notice it.
I’m really looking forward to my first experiences with Anduril and SW45K ranked emitters. The only other 219B light I have is just R9050 binned, I think.
I'm still working on my cover story. Maybe if I mod my Convoys with illuminated tailswitches I can confuse her.
My fall back would be to distract with a gift, but she's not a jewelry person, so I've got to figure out something else.
I keep hoping that if she sees the right copper, brass, anodized titanium, or otherwise fancier lights, she'll catch the bug. So far, it hasn't worked.
Fear not. I’m joking about the distress over how to explain it to or hide it from my wife.
I do expect to have to endure a 3rd degree eye roll and occasional teasing about an excessive number of flashlights, but both of us make discretionary purchases for ourselves rarely enough that items in this price range are a, “do we have a place to store it?” discussion, rather than a, “can we afford it?” topic. It’s definitely not a matter where reciprocation is demanded, although I would like to think of a comparable gift.
Or you cold always use Nev’s approach , although I definitely would not recommend it if you want your state of ‘maritial bliss’ to continue very long.
. Flashlight Collection Downsizing
Well the last time when i bought a super big flashlight as a toy for myself (a 12” diameter HID, some 100W ballasts etc), my wife actually did jokingly “demand” that I get her a Chanel bag for her birthday! :person_facepalming: :money_mouth_face:
As for the other flashlights, luckily she thinks that i am paying like 1/3rd-1/5th the price that we are paying, coz as you’d all know we get it online, and online is always way cheaper than retail.
To drain three 3000mAh cells in a week, it would have to be running at about 53 mA. This shouldn’t be possible when the main LEDs are off though, because the MCU can only use about 6 mA by itself, and the aux LEDs can’t use even 1 mA… so the upper bound for those together is about 6 or 7 mA, even if something isn’t working right.
So I’m thinking it’s probably something else, like a metal shaving causing a small short… or something along those lines. But I don’t really know.
Regardless, the first step is to measure. Could you measure the standby power usage with a DMM? I would like to find out how much power it uses, and how that value changes over the first ~30 seconds of standby time. Also would be helpful to see if the value changes at all depending on how the button is pressed.
The aux leds have their own lvp that should kick in. One of his lights does not have the aux leds so it’s probably running NarsilM. His other light is newer and has the aux leds.
It is happening on 2 lights from the same person. I already asked if he could measure the current draw using a single battery, but he doesn’t have the equipment.
Going back to posts from a couple of days ago…… My light had the flickers at the low end of ramping. I fixed it: The contact between the battery cage and the head had a tiny bit of thread grease on it. Used a Kleenex to clean it. Problem has never returned.