Yesterday I received my free holster from Telman2 as well as my "free" ($3.50 shipping) Coast G10 flunklight, err, uh...flashlight. Nice knurling and ano, but the crappy on both ends with the 5mm LED and junk tail switch. Real waste of a nice body but not much you can do to improve it. No brighter than a generic fauxton but with an AAA cell it should run a lot longer than one.
Thanks for the tip JohhnyMac, I was skeptical if I should do it, but I suppose there isn't much to it to re-seat the reflector... oh and this light really rocks!!! :P Can't wait until it gets dark here to try it out!
Just noticed a funny thing... the SOS wrong... it's supposed to be 3 short, 3 long, 3 short, and on mine it goes 3 long, 3 short, 3 long... so it's an OSO not an SOS... lol anyone else's behaving like this?
You’re welcome for the tip. As for the SOS, I’ll have to check mine. I thought it was correct but now I’m sure if it was another light or not I checked recently. If it is wrong it doesn’t matter much anyway since I never plan to use it.
A DIY amp put together based around the LM833 and LM1875 chip amps, mostly scratch built with my own etched PCBs and design. I put it together at home during my first year at high school. Still working great, but I've added a sub amp with parametric equalisation for a sub which is a 8" poly driver which with eq goes down to a usable 35-40 hz. Nothing spectacular but does the job. At least you can get decent amplification rather cheaply, but where money needs to first be spent in a budget sound system is on good speakers.
So far so good. The sitting of the tail magnet onto metal surface is cool. But gotta lay it there carefully. If I happen to slep it there with the slightest of force. The light turns off.
I got my free laser pointer from the dailyshop. Thanks Jennifer. The laser focuses into a dot, astronaut, happy feet and a spaceship. Two LEDs put out 3.7 lumens. The kids like it.
My wife made 4 orders from ali express on the 12 May from 4 different sellers. 2 arrived today and 2 yesterday. That is pretty good I think (apart from the fact they were not for me)
That's a good "master". I recommend to get also some inexpensive off-camera "slaves" to allow more creative lighting.
I have three of these and I'm very happy with them (for $41 you can't go wrong). Just position them to some nice angle, set to optical slave mode (+ adjust the desired amount of light) and shoot with your current flash: When the in-camera flash is fired the slaves are automatically triggered, giving you the desired amount of light from desired directions.
Here's good place to start reading about your soon-to-be addiction: strobism.
Back on topic: I got Thrunite T30 (For $34.95 it was a steal! A very nice light with moonlight mode and nice UI), Romisen RC-C3 NW (Nice small light with perfect tint, recommended. But has unbelievably ringy beam - especially for a OP reflector!), and replacement driver for my SWM R01A (Special thanks to Sunwayman & Battery Junction for delivering me one!)