Well after reading through this thread, (a symptom of flashoholism, no doubt), I’m sure that if you put us all in a dark room, any political, religious, or personal differences we have would melt away. We’ve got this crazy addiction. I’m sure mine fulfills some childhood desire cuz lights sucked back then. That would explain why I have so many walkie-talkies and knives.
Here are some goofy things about my light hobby that may sound familiar:
I give lights as gifts to people who continually ask to borrow my lights.
Bought a nice Skilhunt H03 headlamp, liked it so much I bought another for work. Work is too nasty and undeserving of that light so I bought a Boruit RJ-02 for $8 to use there. Great light, almost too good for work. Where to from there?
Wifey said she thought the clear Nitecore Tube worn on a ball chain around my neck looked cute. An excuse to neck-wear 24/7.
Christmas: Blitzwolf camping lantern/power bank for all the kids, grandkids, and wife. (with phone charging cords so they don’t take mine)
Stepson started truck driving, hmmm, Tube and ball chain just in case. (he loves it).
Nitecore F1 charger/power bank in car and motorcycle, just in case. (hey, there’s 18650s everywhere in laptops and vape shops just in case of apocalyptic situation)
Took inventory at arrival to work: Tube neck light, cooyoo quantum ti on keychain, copper Tool AAA in pocket bottom, SC62d clipped to pocket. Reached for the Boruit headlamp.
Excited for storm season, possibility that electric will go out for a little while and I can say “see? good thing I had lights for us all!”
Wifey bought me a Powercap beanie with beautifully tinted 5MM emitters. Thinking about modding it with the driver and battery from a Nitecore Tube.
Bought multi-pack of Micro-USB charging cables to distribute to all my locations in the highly unlikely event that I’m caught needing a charge.
My children have the best lights in school!
I thought it would help if I stayed off CPF and instead focused on budget lights. Turns out that I’m like a smoker or drinker that buys cheaper cigs or booze but spends as much cuz they consume twice as much. I’m gonna try to hold off until Skilhunt puts out a new CR123/16340 light or if I find a sweet AA light. I need to use up a bunch of 16340s and I’ve got a ton of Eneloops.
What is the diameter of the D4? I’d expect that even with a 18350 tube, it might be a bit thick and clunky for key ring use.
But hey, patmurris, it was quite a while back that Dale had his Texas Poker AAA light reaching over 1k+ lumens OTF. With today’s emitters, it might not be long before 2k+ lumens OTF is possible from a build or mod. Especially now that some of the smaller cells are trending upward in both capacity and current handling. If/when that “bump” reaches the 10180, there won’t be anything left to stop us from getting 2k+ in a light the size of a BLF 348!
EDIT: Just now looking at the CREE PCT I think it might already be possible, with a XHP50.2 K4 bin wired at 6V, and a couple 10180, in a AAA-size light. The relatively low Vf compared to 2S Li-ion might push output over 2A, right at the edge of ~2k lumens.
-When you’re arrive home at weekend with a new flashlight and your mother says “another one?”!
-When you carry a backpack just to bring 1 or 2 flashlights when going to the beach…during daylight!
-When the family asks you to order them new flashlights!
-When you have 2 flashlights on your bedside and use them instead of the room lights!
-When you clean (vacuum clean) your house using at least 3 flashlights to see the dust and clean it!
-When you talk so much about flashlights, and you buy them, that…your girlfriend makes a strip for you, in a dark room, just using a flashlight on the lowest mode :partying_face:
