Do you still own any non LED powered lights?

Other Types of Lights Non-LED Lanterns, Incandescent, and HID Lights
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I have quite a few xenon bulbs for my Solarforce L2’s, the charger probably fried in the EMP wave though.

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i still have lots of kerosene lanterns, Incans, and even some driverless LED flashlights with single resistors so i’m safe from EMPs. :slight_smile:

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LOL. I’ve got a dandy little 4*AA flourescent - which uses batteries.

And a propane lantern on a pole off the top of a tank that I keep for emergencies. Got a multi-lifetime supply of mantles for that thing, too.

Plus a few incan hosts left over in case anybody complains about the rest of my lights.

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Duh… :stuck_out_tongue: All my flashlights are powered by batteries too except for one searchlight which plugs directly to my car’s cigarette lighter jack (which gets its power from a battery by the way). :bigsmile:

Anyway I still keep a few incan flashlights stock like the searchlight mentioned above which has a 50W H3 bulb (are these counted as incans? ). No I don’t use them but its nice to have some in my collection. :slight_smile:

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yes but not used often.
vintage and old school stuff i dont want to mod.
the ones i do use are big springtop lanterns that are recharged by solar panels in sheds,garages,ect.

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Then I’ll just burn kittens… and that fat dude down the road. J)

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Why not use the tesla battery pack from the car you posted a vid of a while back?

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I burned my bulb out on my porter cable tool light, replaced it with this

Make sure you select the right voltage

Bright enough and will run FOREVER on the battery pack…

In fact these will fit in 1-4 C/D cell MagLites as well :wink:

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very interesting, i wonder i one could replace that chip with an XP-L, perhaps double the lumens?

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All my old incandescent flashlights have been converted to LEDs. Almost all are old Maglites.

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was it cost effective to do so?

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Probably not but overall I just hate ditching any nicely machined almost all aluminum flashlight. It seems such a waste.

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makes sense, the body is probably better aluminum and better anodized then most chinese lights

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I still have some Maglites but they are not in service (and not worth converting). :smiley:

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I have about a dozen little plastic single-AA incan lights that I give to my boys as ‘training lights’. They love flashlights, but I’m still teaching them to use lights safely (they’re 3 and 5). These little incans are cheap, like $.50 each, so I don’t mind if the boys break them, and they’re less than a lumen on a fresh battery so they can’t hurt themselves if they use the light wrong. They only get to use my LED lights on moonlight mode, and carefully supervised. For now, anyway.

Oh and I still have a Mag 2-D ROP. I have a few other Maglights left, but they all have LED conversions.

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I’ve got several Surefire E2’s(a couple modded with LED’s), an M6(MN15), a pair of A2’s(incan/led hybrid), plus a couple of hotwire setups(1331 & 1185) in Solarforce hosts, plus a few p60-style incan dropins in various voltages, and I think I’ve got a 3D generic incan(not sure where it is).

drillbit

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There are still quite a few around the house. Most just cheapy plastic things other people have/use.

I still have my MagCharger which I use.

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tesco and unknown brand light

tesco 2xaa is terrible

but the unknown brand light is waterproof down to 7m and floats (even when it is not claimed to do diving)
great beam profile on that with less to no rings or artifacts

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I like to collect interesting flashlight.

Still keeping OSRAM Dulux Mini. Mod it to use either AA or D size battery with external D-Size adaptor.

I have this Osram Dulux Mini Combo but forget where I put it.

The BIG brother - Osram Dulux Combo, using 4 x AA. I feed it with Eneloop and keep in my car. Also have the rechargeable version which I keep at home.

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I have a bunch of old non-LED flashlights around. I no longer use any of them anymore though most still work:
1xAAA grey maglite solitaire. 2 lumens! Focus adjustment from “spot” to “donut”.
2xAAA black mini maglite. A much more useful incan flashlight than the solitaire
2xAA blue mini maglite.
4xAA UKE dive light
4xC UKE dive light (quite well built actually. Was awesomely bright compared to what was available when I got it 20+ years ago).

Various other cheapie unknown brand plastic lights:
small fluorescent powered by I think 4xAA from Radio Shack.
3xC combo fluorescent with incandescent.
4xAAA combo fluorescent with incandescent from Sharper Image or Brookstone.