What did you use your flashlight for today?

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:

I did some shoveling and the tk-75 was my light provider :smiley:

Used my supfire m6 as a construction light.
Had to help a friend replacing some electrical outlets and light switches in his house.
Ceilingbounced the light and it was enough to light the roomswith enough light to work without additional lighting, and have some spill to other rooms so that people could walk around without stepping on stuff

I used my Jacob A60 to help me find three small T6 screws I dropped on a rug early this morning before the sun was up.

I used my Kung for light when I jumped my daughter’s car about 14 hours later. The battery in my C280 is in the trunk so I could not use the headlights.

Quark Pro on strobe strobing my yard right now because faggoted neigbours chatting outside with relatives from above. They get a good view of my yard which is ‘ok’

Can’t be getting a nice view everyday free!

had a suspicious vehicle parked back in an old logging road on the property I work for…it was deep snow and for safety I did not want to walk in and meet the vehicle…I stood at the main road and set my belt duty light to strobe (olight m22) signalling the vehicle to come out of the logging road…eventually they responded by flashing their high beams and I gave them a couple return flashes every time they did…they started to move and left the property without stopping…used the light to grab the license plate for the report…seemed like a drug thing…flashlight is one of the best tools I have at work…it does a lot of work for you if used effectively…