You might be a Flash-a-holic if ……
You spend most of your life on a flashlight forum.
You might be a Flashaholic ……
…when your friends think you are a nerd and don’t understand your hobby.
Not many (of my friends!) are into electronics or lights.
- you can name LED’s by just looking at them
- you ask “did the power go out?” with enthusiasm and excitement
- get personally offended at the neolithic flashlights people use on TV
- don’t think twice about buying a $15 flashlight, then putting $40 worth of parts into it just to get a slightly warmer tint and a slightly different UI
When you know Q8 GT Fw3a Ft03 are not just random characters…
When you mod a flashlight so you can use it to mod some flashlights :
Many of these mentioned signs are well beyond the line of already being a Flashaholic, and are closer to Flashamaniac . 
I think you need only 1 sign that says you’re a flashaholic. You own more than you need and keep looking for more! Sure, a couple in the house for power outage (with one of them in the kitchen for immediate tasks and one in the bedroom for safety), one on your person that fits inside your pocket (within AA or smaller size), and maybe one in the car plus a couple for camping / backpacking / hiking… but if you’ve got duplicates for the same purposes? And despite having all the light you need, you still check on-line to see what’s new and worth buying? Definitely a flashaholic.
If you know all the battery types, can recognize an LED type just by looking at it, have modified flashlights, or know a programmable UI? Then you’re headed for mania, if not already there. 
When your table looks like that in the night 
Well…
- You know what a beamshot is, or worse : you make beamshots
- You swap LEDs in each of your lights
- You have more flashlights than pockets in your trousers
- You buy flashlight parts
- People ask your advice before buying a flashlight
- You refuse to use a smartphone as a flashlight
- GB BG KD FT BLF Q8 GT D4V2 FW3T XML2 CSLNM1.TG FET Andùril S2+ C8 are familiar words
- You buy custom flashlights part
- You buy custom flashlights
- You buy 100 bucks of tools to mod 10 bucks flashlights with 40 bucks worth of parts… every month
- You have a flashlight budget
- You spend more than your flashlight budget every month
- You don’t want to sell some flashlights because they’re “sentimental to me”
When you spend more time modding lights than actually using them…
THIS^^^^^^^^
I'm crying cause it's true LOOOOOL
The overflow from your collection has taken over your job work space and you start doing simple mods by just moving the keyboard out of the way.
On the one hand, this can be pretty legit sometimes. Like, I gave my father a light and he carried it with him pretty much all the time until literally the moment he died. So I’m definitely keeping that one.
On the other hand, I have at least 100 lights which are “sentimental” or have some sort of story behind them. So… I might have a problem.
When you sleep with your top 5 right by ya.
:person_facepalming:
Guilty.
Okay, maybe not top 5…
Airpro DC7, Cometa, bobofett Inland R22, Wurkkos WK30, Ultratac A7, Luxpro 2×D (actually 6×AA), so 6.
BLF Q8, Sofirn C8F, coupla others within throwing distance.
I try to sleep with a different one every night. Although lately Lady Reylight TI LAN has been getting most of the attention. A smallish AA but a very nice moonlight and useful trits!
Ummm, we are talking flashlights, right?
Of course!
When you make sure your wife has packed a Tool AA with magnetic tail cap, BLF Q8 with Sofirn diffuser & Zanflare T1 when she goes away for a girls weekend to Phillip Island.
This. :cry:
The last text my dad sent me was him asking me to bring him a fresh battery and all the lights that I gave him that he left in his truck. So now I have an SRT7, D25A, and Wizard XHP50 that I’ll never part with.
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When your 3yr old son anxiously asks your wife “Why is papa buying so many torches. There won’t be any torches left in the shop.”