What did you use your flashlight for today?

Checked out my new 6*10.5m shed for leaks last night during a storm, with my MTG2 modded C8.

No leaks :slight_smile:

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.

they apparently don’t like tri sodium phosphate, this stuff claims to keep it from forming

Today i have used my lights for so many things that you should be asking what don’t i use it for, it would be a far shorter list

I have used chlorine bleach, but am thinking alcohol would leave less residue. Since it is white you don’t need to bleach the color out.

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 used 15 xenon bulb in fake solarforce l2 extended to find my zebra sc52 which has fallen behind shelf :slight_smile:

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. :frowning:

-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:

I used an SK68 with a neutral white XM-L2 to check a sore. Gook color rendering helps for this.

Eeeew, gross…

Thats funny, i think in 100km of gas (40mpg)

Yeah, this van I think get 10-12mpg. One can watch the gas gauge in real time. :bigsmile: At nearly $4 per gallon it really ads up.

I used my new BTU Shocker to light up a well lit room.

$4.75/gallon here

but you guys use imperial gallons up there dont ya? that means you get about 1/5 a gallon more than us

Plus, they use dried leaves for money… :money_mouth_face:

we used to use continentals, but you should know how that turned out :bigsmile:

I used US gallons, in imperial gallons it would be $5.70USD per gallon.

Now if you take into account the exchange rate on the Canadian dollar it would be $5.23CAD per US gallon and $6.27 per imperial gallon

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.

Shining my Starry Light down a hallway to the dismay of employees dazzled by my flashaholic devotion.

dazzled or frazzled? :stuck_out_tongue: