I ended up being quite a bit bored with flashlights lately. Nothing really new coming out that would particularly interest me. A few cheap ebay zoomies were refreshing but usually in budget corners is about lookig for the 100x revamped designs. Rarely something really good pop's out. Emitters are just the usual, a ton of POS drivers around and spinoff of like 10 types of flashlight bodies. Creativity is lacking. If so, why they just don't do better quality budget products if creativity is poor if any at all?
I am a little bit bored. I look at my collection of budget lights and think If I didn't buy those 10 I could have bought one really nice light but then again what would be the fun in that. My wife asked me how many lights have I bought. I said guess. She said more than 50 ( wow close, I think its more). I laughed it off and said probably 20. Damn! I am going to have to find a new hidey hole.
I just find that I have a light for every task and enough batteries etc to last me for a week of blackouts..I just really have no need for more lights at the moment..even my brief stint into knives was short lived after 2 enlan's and a sanrenmu..got enough knives now too..hard to keep the interest after 20 bright ass lights..oh well it's game season (xbox 360) so cash has another place to go..
Oh man... I started the "So much crap" thread and pretty much got chastised for admitting my displeasure for the recent stock of "budget" flashlights, haha.
I got lucky or perhaps i used a better choice of words. I'll try with a lottery ticket next. If i win i might get a dodge viper V12 to kill the boredom. Might be fun.
Oh but i do, i was away for almost 1 month occasionally. But keep lurking around anyway. I have not much time for this hobby but i manage to keep in tune with trends. Nothing really new bore me. I wish company's such as DX, KD and others would stock more DIY material...
I recieved today my order from LCK-LED (7x Q5 XR-E in 16mm star) and 5 tir optics 15 degree fro osrams. I actually recieved 8 of them. Either he messed up or was just kind enough. It did look it was intentional as 5 wer clipped together and then another 3 were just added in the bag. The tir's are exquisite for those warm osrams at 1usd i bought time ago. A really beautifull beam! Problem is i have trouble fitting them into various lights. :/ Only a few, but those who do are really really nice. Around 150 lumens at 1A does not seem much but the color and beam compensates very nicely. Highly reccomeded
The osrams are truly nice but all of the 15!!! are slightly off center. Minimally but enough to get pissed if installing into a p60 pill with almost zero chances of tweking it. A OP reflector takes care of it but a SMO is very unforgiving. :/
I’ve been bored with it too lately, I figured I’d try a jetbeam bc10 for my bday but took some work to get it working properly, threads a little rough, switch has long throw and kinda rough too so I oiled the switch too with air tool oil. much better now, thinking of doing an r5 with ter2 body which takes p60s, or getting the uf860l with magnetic ring, looks like mid to high budget seems more appealing lately.
I am bored with flashlight. So bored that there is no urge to buy some more, maybe a new tech on LED will freshen up a bit who knows but i am already moved on to another hobby. I am sure I'll be back again with collecting flashlight but not anytime soon maybe a year at least.
I started experimenting with XPGs again, only so much you can do with an XML. I don't see a revolutionary replacement for the XML in the near future, I have started playing with the U2s since the price finally came down, but they aren't significantly different from the T6, so yeah it is kind of boring at the moment.
"I would advise you to take a little break from flashlight forums....worked for me!" -fishmaniac
I'm glad it worked for you. All I accomplished after a few months hiatus is cultivated an even stronger desire for more/different lights that leaves me anxious and pissed off if I think about long enough.