Just joined up today........Whats up folks?

Hi

I just joined the site today, after finding a thread where a member is selling 18650 batteries that I previously had read reviews of, but couldnt find for sale anywhere, so I am trying to get on the list before they are all gone……

I am a member of another light related forum, CPF, and have been for almost a year under the same user name I have here. I have almost 500 posts/threads there.

I got into LED flashlights at the same time I joined there, as I was pretty much unaware of how good LED’s had become. I had bought a LED headlamp in early 2007 for a mid winter, multi-day backpacking trip through Shenandoah natl park in early February of 2007, and I had to completely re-outfit myself, because my gear was about 15 years old at that time, and needed “refreshing” to say the least.

So someone told me about LED headlamps, which I was also unaware of, and I found this review site called “flashlight reviews” I believe, and I looked through there and picked an off brand LED headlamp sold at an apparently now-defunct website called amondotech. I thought that headllamp was great, and all it had was 3-5mm LED’s, and one Luxeon LED, but it did the job.

Then last year I found out that LED’s were much better than I thought, so I bought my 1st light, a Jetbeam BC-10, then the 2nd, an iTp A6 Polestar, which has a great Cree MC-E and runs up to 700L, with 3 modes plus a strobe. But it has crazy wide spill, with a medium sized hot spot so it has great flood, but with good throw(unlike my Zebralight SC600, which is all flood).

Since then I’ve bought about 20 lights, and have sent 2 back due to “issues” like a bad switch, and the other was just a bad light altogether. I also sold 2 that I had bought due to their beam tint being too yellow for my taste(both Eagletac D25 Ti’s, D25A and D25C with the T-6). I now have 16 lights, including a new Thrunite TN-30 I just got in Saturday.

So I do have ‘some’ experience with these things, but I am still in the learning process. :wink:

Hi buddy.

I bought 6 of those batteries. They are said to be some of the best on the market.

Greetings Highlander North and Welcome Aboard !!

Welcome to the blf.

Welcome to the BLF family, HighlanderNorth!! Happy to have you among us. You will find plenty here you likely already know. :wink:

Welcome! Enjoy your stay!

-Garry

Hello HighlanderNorth, ive noticed you around on CPF. Interesting threads you open. Welcome aboard!!

I just tried to go and check on the thread that I first posted on, in the for sale area. It was a thread from a member who is selling 3400mah KeepPower 18650’s.

So I went back to the main forum page, clicked on the want to sell area, and I couldnt find the thread title anywhere. So I came back to this page, and just kept back clicking to get back to that thread, and I finally after about 15 back clicks I got back there, then I clicked on “last post” to get to the final posts to see if I got any response there, but when I did, I got an “Access Denied to this page”. So I tried it a different way, and it still came up “Access Denied”

So, I had no problem initially posting there, and had no problem getting to that thread from the start, but now I’m being shut out for some reason….

Anyone know whats going on there? Did I already break a rule or something by posting on a for sale area with less than a certain number of posts, or…………?

No, it's probably a hiccup. There are no "silly rules" like that on BLF. Relax!

-Garry

There is a minimum post rule at other forums, but you can still go into the threads and look, you just cant sell or buy til you’ve jumped through a few hoops. I didnt see that mentioned here, but I cant find the thread title listed in that content area of the sell area now. Must be a hiccup.

Welcome to BLF HighlanderNorth

It sounds like you already know lots of stuff and have some insight into higher end lights too.

Wonderful to have you here and I do hope you have fun here, I know I do ;-)

Welcome to the lighter side forum.
If its a popular sale, try scrolling down the recent posts. It’s likely to show up there. If you posted in the thread it will show in you’re “watched posts”. There’s also an icon at the bottom of each OP that does the same thing but allows you to “lurk”.

That thread you were looking for is right here. At the moment it’s at the top of the list of threads if you go to the Want to Sell forum. Check again and see if you still can’t see it.

Welcome on board!

Welcome to BLF!

Welcome! I see you ended up with the TN30 in the end. How do you like it?

I've read some of your comments on CPF, thought the nick was familiar ....

ONLY 20 Lights, ..... Well we will see if we can "empty" that wallet ....(smile)

Welcome, you will like this community. BLF is FUN, Informative, and VERY different than the "other" forum.

welcomeFoy