Lowes Deal Alerts & Discussion Thread

26650 generally will not fit a “C” cell light. There is plenty of width in a “D” cell light.

Oh duh! But what about length of two 26650's?

-Garry

Maybe shorten the tail cap spring, there might be just enough there. I don’t know if the stock driver could handle the extra voltage. I didn’t even test mine on a fully charged Li-ion. I didn’t want to blow it on the first night :smiley:

Oh I wasn't thinking to use the stock driver. Just wondering about it as a host.

-Garry

Use one of the AA to D adapters with a AA dummy cell inserted and then just use 1 26650.
But if you are going to change to a Buck driver, then it doesn’t matter.

I’m gonna go out and try to find one tomorrow.
If it blows up, oh well, but doubt it will on one 26650 cell.
Later,

Keith

I know so many of the members would just pass over a “Lowes thread”
After all they’re just a hardware store, right? :slight_smile:

I see my Lowe's now has more holiday stuff out. The Utilitech #0569183 light is a 3C light with XM-L2 and advertised at 500 lumens and there is a Utilitech #05969178 3X XP-G2 light there as well. It takes, get this - 9XAA batteries in it. It is advertised as 1000 lumens. They are $29.97 and $39.97 respectively.

I also want that Lux Pro LP1200C with 6xAA and the half OP, half SMO reflector. It would be great with 6 Eneloops and an MT-G2 at 3 amps.

I bought a couple of the Lux Pro 2D lights and I happen to have some 41mm glass lenses, so these will get modded.

Remember this deal? Hammer, 25 foot tape measure, knife, pliers and cutters. Normally $12.95 on clearance for $3.60. Now they are $1.80, got 5.

This was what the clearance cart looked like. No price, I had to bring one up to get it price checked.

This one is NOT a good deal!!!
A set of 2 Dorcy clamp lights for 49.99


But look, from now until BF it is half price, 24.99. Let’s see what it uses for emitters
First the larger of the 2, then the smaller clamplight

The really sad thing is that they will probably sell thru, bought by people because they look like they would make a nice gift. Yeah, right.
Now some stocking stuffers.



and the pouch’s for the locking pliers that was clearanced a couple of months ago.

First of all Happy Thanksgiving to you all :slight_smile:

Old-Lumens-Thankyou for the heads-up on the new Utilitech light’s I went to Lowes website and noticed they are having a half price off the two light’s you mention.

I ordered two of the 500 lumen C battery xm-l2 flashlight’s as I do not own any that use this battery and I will let you all know what I think of them.

If they work out I will keep 1 and give the other as a Christmas gift if they don’t work out then both go as Christmas gift’s…lol

But for $15.97 each it was to much to resist.

The 3X XP-G2 model is half price to so anyone interested it’s a good time IMO to get one.

Woahowahwoah…$20? For that price its good for parts to stuff in the Defiant 650lm 3D I got last year. Its been sitting around without much of a purpose…

What part’s did you need for your 650 lumen defiant?

Did some of the part’s break?

There were a couple of version’s of the 650 lumen Defiant,I have a few of the XM-L2 650 lumen single mode Defiant’s as a well as a few of the current 600 lumen XM-L2 3-mode Defiant’s as well as some spare part’s.

Did you need some help with part’s?,maybe I can help let me know.

I couldn’t believe it myself to see the 3X XP-G2 and XM-l2 3C light’s going for under $20,here are the link’s if they can help anyone:

XM-L2 500 lumen model—> http://www.lowes.com/pd_569183-50584-LWFL1405_0?productId=50256751&Ntt=flashlight+utilitech&pl=1&currentURL=%3FNtt%3Dflashlight%2Butilitech&facetInfo=

3X XP-G2 model—> http://www.lowes.com/ProductDisplay?partNumber=569178-50584-FT-LOW1415&langId=–1&storeId=10151&productId=50256741&catalogId=10051&cmRelshp=req&rel=nofollow&cId=PDIO1

I have never used Utilitech before or handled one because I do not live close to a lowe’s so do not have the chance to go there often so my purchase of the 500 lumen model is a kind of an experiment to I do notice they offer a 1 year warranty compared to Defiant offering a lifetime warranty which speaking of Defiant’s lifetime warranty they have made good on this with me first-hand by just letting me take a whole new flashlight from a store I did not even buy the damaged light at (just thought I’d point these thing’s out if it is an important concern to someone)

I missed the boat on the Defiant 3-up XP-G2 1000 lumen torch, but did get one of the good 3D-XM-L lights and have been looking for a way to give it some character, this is my solution.

I see,That’s cool this deal popped up for you.

What do you and other’s think about the triple XP-G2 light stock as-is for someone who does not own any flashlight’s with this Led in it?

Most of my flashlight’s are various XML’s with most being XM-L2’s and then have one sst-50 light and one sst-90 light.

I keep looking at the XP-G2 light since I bookmarked it,never used or owned a flashlight with this led in it.

Hey all I wanted to do a proper review of these light’s but I am short on time and have no way to take pictures but this light is very nice and I am very impressed with it.

It is very comfortable to hold and carry and seem’s built well it has 3 modes Hi-Low-Blink-off no memory you can turn it off at any time by holding down the power button for about 2 second’s.

The beam pattern remind’s me of the Trustfire X8 and clones beam profile but this light has a much larger and usable hotspot the low mode work’s great around the house and the hi mode work’s great outside about as far as I am able to shine around my home at this time is 100 yard’s and it makes it out the far fairly easy as there were some deer out feeding and I could see them clearly at this distance.

The width of the reflector is about 25% larger than the Trustfire X8 and the overall beam size including flood is about 25% larger also. The hotspot is very impressive and is perfectly round and larger then any XML light I have seen or used and keep’s it’s intensity very well at farther distances this could be due to the reflector design as the lower 10–20 closest to the LED is Orange Peel then it moves into a smooth texture I am not sure but this maybe why it seem’s in the beam profile the brakes were put on the flood keeping it in more to make what flood is there brighter and the hotspot very bright.

I keep comparing to the trustfire X8’s beam pattern as this is a light I own and the beam pattern remind’s me of it the most with the exception of the hotspot being much larger on this new light,the Trustfire X8 has an STL-V6 driver in it and this Utilitech actualy is a little brighter and throw’s farther.

I only had the chance to use the light for a little less then an hour but it sure is a pleasure to use for it’s comfort,size and very usable beam the lumen’s are rated at 500 but this light to me seem’s to surpass this number.

A light I think some of you might be wondering how this compares to is the Home Depot XM-L2 light’s and this little guy (little compared to the 3D Defiant’s…lol) compares very well and actualy has a similar brightness but actualy I would rather use the Utilitech for basic around the yard and stuff then the defiant’s but if I had to have a light to throw the beam realy far I’d reach for the defiant….the defiant XML’s from the last 3 year’s IMO throw very well for a store bought light but so much of the intensity is in the corona of the beam helping it throw farther but the wider hotspot of the Utilitech just comes more handy IMO for basic function’s.

For this sale price it’s a no brainer if you have the fund’s I’d pick one or more up if for anything to have a C battery flashlight on hand as that’s the only battery on the shelf when a catastrophy hit’s and also because it’s just a nice light to have around and just the right size for a lot of different reason’s…I’d even buy one at full price but at half price at just a little over $15 it’s a steal.

Hope this is somewhat helpful. XM-L2 500 lumen model—> http://www.lowes.com/pd_569183-50584-LWFL1405_0?productId=50256751&Ntt…

Just wanted to let you all know I ordered a few more of these as Christmas gift’s for the family and two of the three flashlight’s I ordered had XML-T6 led’s and one had an XM-L2 led.

I guess for those of you that live close to a lowe’s you can peek and see what Led it has but for those of you who order like I did just be aware of this in this product—>

^ Bummer. I would trade them in if I was near a Lowes outlet.

Thanks for sharing your impressions 2 posts up. :)

Your welcome.

I’m about a little over an hour away from a lowes and I am contemplating doing that but I just did a beam shot comparison and there realy isn’t much difference indicating this flashlight isn’t driving the led very hard none of the family member’s that are receiving them know anything about flashlight’s two of them just have halogen bulb maglites and my grandparent’s still have a silver metal flashlight that uses a bulb that look’s like it came from the 1950’s…lol,so they will all be impressed as is so I’m just not sure at this point.

Guess Lowe’s was angry I bought the light’s at close to half off then slapped a 10% coupon code on top of it using a trick,here is a post about this trick in case you all want to try it it realy does work was able to make it work for me a couple of times to get coupon codes—>

On Black Friday I got an email from Lowes about a $14.98 deal on this Direct Drive ratchet wrench and sockets. Regular price is $29.98. Well, with everything else going on that day it went right over my head. Sometime later when I thought of it I checked it out.
As some of you may know, there are coarse toothed ratchets and fine tooth ratchets. Of the 2, fine tooth ratchets are usually preferred as they allow the wrench to ratchet with less backward motion to engage the next tooth. This “Direct Drive” wrench in effect has infinitely small teeth to alow ratcheting in tighter spaces. IF it works, this could be a very useful tool.
I have been watching the display since BF and the have NOT been selling, At All! They were reduced to $19.98 and still they didn’t sell. Now I see that they are at $9.98 so I picked 1 up to play with.

Yes, in “effect” but there’s no teeth or paw used. If there were, they’d be so fine, that they’d fail under load. It uses a one-way clutch like in most motorcycle starters (spring-loaded rollers on ramps). If you don’t have one, get it.

It is what you describe and pretty much what I expected. First thing I did when I got it home was take it apart.