I almost paid 2k dollars for a flashlight. I did end up asking for a refund but did end up paying $600 for a TN42vn90. A wise man once said “dont buy lights you have to make payments on” lucky I paid cash.
6. Hiding or sneaking lights into to avoid trouble with relatives, girlfriends, etc…
6.1 Accumulating a wishlist of lights, then ordering them all at once from the same dealer, so that you avoid arousing suspicion by only receiving one package.
See I tend to think of it like this — we all spend our fun-money on something. For most of us its flashlights (currently), but it could just as easily be knives, or guns, fishing, golf, cars, shoes, beer, whatever. Some of us have more fun-money than others, no matter what our hobby is. In fact there’s somebody out there with more fun-money than all of us, except for that one person at the top. So there’s no reason to get all worked up trying to snag them all — you can’t do it. Be smart with your fun money, ONLY spend your fun money, and learn to enjoy what you have.
By the way I notice you’re still pretty new here, 10ish months or so into this. I remember those days, when everything looked appealing because you’ve never had or seen anything like it. The truth is, once you’ve had and played with a lot of lights, maybe started building a few of your own, it suddenly takes a lot more to really grab your “gotta-have-it” attention. In time you find a comfortable spot in the hobby, and its often not right on the bleeding edge where you’ve gotta have every new thing that comes along. Find your spot and enjoy it.
That is some very cool advice emarkd has for us! I noticed he is spot on, initially I had to buy a load of lights, just to see new models every week. Then I started building my own lights and then it finally made sense.
That was me that said that. The only way I CAN buy a light these days is if I make payments, so erase that quote from your memory.
Don’t know why I didn’t think of it before. I should be spending someone else’s money to buy lights.
But in all seriousness, I think when you have 8 lights laying around still in the package that haven’t been opened in months you might have a problem. The other 8 I’m selling so that’s ok
My biggest problem is I spend as much on upgrading flashlights as I do flashlights. If you added up all my tools and parts and pieces, I would think flashlights vs tools they’ed be close to even. I could have just purchased a nicer or more lumen light to begin with but sometimes modding is the only way to achieve what I want. I just spent around $125 on Lab power supply a DPS5015 with all the parts to put it together myself. In the mail yesterday came a triple 20mm Seoul Viosys Z5 UV board from KD with a H1-A boost driver and a few other parts. Should be here today, SMD rework Amtech NC-559-V2-TF solder flux (authentic not cheap). Nobody makes a S2 sized single 18650 triple UV light with that much mw output. I spend way to much. :person_facepalming:
Once I do these little mods to lights, I just don’t want to let them go (sale), so they end up setting somewhere only to receive a click now and then.
I feel your pain but this is a great hobby that keeps me out of trouble. You only live once.
Ah, therein lies the rub… once you put all the effort into the mods you truly don’t want to part with them, even though they don’t get used often. I have sold a few and then missed them, wondered what I was thinking… have even bought one back on occasion! lol
Lol, i recently made a new shelf in the power cabinet space for my flashlights.
The following day more then half of the newly created space was gone and it was stuffed with purses :person_facepalming: