I'm glad to have a place where people can talk about budget flashlights. I like CPF, but their attitude towards budget lights is just pathetic. I have learned a a great deal on those forums in the last year since first getting interested in LED flashlights. It started when I was thinking it would be good to upgrade my Black and Decker Versapak Snakelight's PR bulb to an LED. While at Fry's I found a Nite-Ize LED upgrade that you could just put in the same socket as the old bulb, my first (horrible) LED light. So then I wanted to upgrade my Mini Maglite and got a Terralux 5EX and WOW! That thing was awesome (or so I thought at the time). Then I bought a Fenix L2D with L1D and P2D lego bodies for it, CPF people made me think I needed a Maha C9000 charger and more eneloops (I already had some and a smaller Maha charger), then an iTP A3 EOS, then tried lithium ion batteries from DX, now I'm about to get my first P60 host. So I guess I'm addicted and it all took less than a year. Fortunately I'm pretty much a tightwad or I would have hundreds of dollars worth of titanium JetBeams and Quarks. Here's my current collection.
Meanwhile I have been editing and writing some articles on the CPF Wiki (now Flashlight Wiki), which I feel like is a greatly underused resource. There's just so much to sort through at CPF and it gets out of date so quickly, that I think a Wiki is a great place to store information. I have written up lists of models available from Fenix, 4Sevens, JetBeam, iTP, and EagleTac, as well as articles about batteries and chargers. It's as much for my information as anything.
In real life I am in my 40's and design highway bridges in Atlanta, Georgia (this is the origin of "br" in "brted", since that was my mainframe username back in the day). Right out of college I joined the Peace Corps and served two years in Thailand as a water resources engineer. I have a web page and a blog. I have two black lab mixes that love to go for walks and let me use my flashlights.
I hated that it was all in one place.....made it hard to read up on a light when you have to go through tons of postings, which were basically in one topic.
Really, unreliable budget lights offered in hundreds of varieties need a discussion even more than more reliable higher-end lights to sort everything out and so people will know how they can improve them once they get them. The really good lights just work. How boring is that?
If you want somewhere to write up articles and reviews, you're always welcome to put them here, I'll find a way to feature them on the front page or something.
Okay, kreisler, you're confirmed on the Flashlight Wiki. Even if you have a question about something or a suggestion or maybe something is out-of-date or not right, but aren't sure you want to add to a page, you can post something on a Talk page.
I like it here where I can Still learn at 71 :party: And all very smart young people. I do not like being old so I try to surround myself with young people. Only thing missing is cute young chicks 22 to 45 years old.
Kreisler please stop digging out ancient threads and deleting your first post afterwards making the poster after your post look like he resurrected the thread. Please look at the date first and think twice if it's worth the resurrection.
