Between Christmas and New Year in Australia we have a 5-day, 404 km (250 mile) canoe marathon race on the Murray River. (Sadly after 45 years 2013 was the last one in this time slot).
Each team needs a "land crew" at designated checkpoints to bring in food/drink/sunscreen/extra clothing/etc. As a competitor, it can be difficult to find your land crew among the many people lining the river at the checkpoints.
I acted as land crew for a couple of friends in a double canoe and used my Armytek Predator in strobe mode to "signal" them from the bank. According to my team, they could quickly spot me from several hundred meters (yards) away, making it easy to paddle in to exactly the right point.
I usually have little use for strobes but apparently the Predator's long-throw beam profile was particularly well-suited in this case.
Often though, like others here have said, my lights are used indoors at night just navigating about the house or making pretty patterns on the wall while watching TV.
Very humid here because of cylcone, so mould start to creep everywhere. Used SKR to lightup inside and clean the wooden cupboard where the white stuff have started an invasion. I don’t know what you use to stop this mould from developing, but I have the idea that they don’t really like pure alcohol. looks like it kinda work better than just cleaning with a dry cloth.
Used a Roche F6 to move a dirt bike from an uninsuleted barn to an insulated barn, temp supposed to be 11 F tonight. It’s water cooled and didn’t put any antifreeze in it during last change.
I had volunteered to deliver some food to a few families about 30 min. drive from the city. I was given this old big heavy V10 van to drive since I don’t have a vehicle suitable for delivery. Fuel tank was empty so I stopped to get some gas. After spending a XinTD C8 V4 worth of money on gas (what can I say, I think in terms of flashlights when it comes to money :nerd_face: ) The beast wouldn’t start.
In the next hour or so having a flashlight was very helpful. I finally was able to diagnose a loose battery connection. I was very late making the deliveries.
Lessons learned:
-Seniors go to bed early and don’t really appreciate being woken up at midnight even if its for free grocery and prepared meals.
-a few hundred lumens might seem like a lot when indoors, but outside of town with no street lights one needs a lot more power. A throwy light helps to see all those street signs and numbers in the distance.
-V10 powered vans use a lot more gas than you think. I might need a part time job just so I can keep up with this volunteer work. :bigsmile:
Got back from home yesterday and wife told me that my 1 year old kid broke down our newly bought DVD player (which my 4 yr old son uses to watch his comics)
I was like damn, another expense coming… I thought, why not disassemble the thing and try to get the thing to open/close again.
Had to use the Quark X AA2 Tactical on medium to locate screws more easily. While looking at the PCB, the glare was somewhat annoying from cool white but still usable. After soms 30 minutes of doing and undoing, the thing finally came to life! Yes!!
I really could have used a neutral floody headlamp for this task!
I am glad you were able to fix it instead of having to buy another one.
One trick I sometimes use is fashion a makeshift warm diffuser using wax paper or butcher paper. It softens the light and warms up the color temperature. Not perfect but not bad for a few cents worth of material and a few minutes.