Side-switch flashlights

[Unheard]

Depends.

[Bort]

@CRC

@Bort

How do you hold your side switch flashlights?

Very carefully
I don’t like ano damage.

How rough are your hands??

Not very but thats part of the potential dropping problem.
Concrete is very rough :cry:

[nottawhackjob]

“Depends”.

Ok tell us how ya hold your Depends?

I hold em’ between my index finger and thumb farthest away from the soggy parts. Arm fully extended.

[Bort]

@CRC

@Bort

@CRC

@Bort

How do you hold your side switch flashlights?

Very carefully
I don’t like ano damage.

How rough are your hands??

Not very but thats part of the potential dropping problem.
Concrete is very rough :cry:

Lol, I knew what you meant, I was just intentionaly misinterpreting it

I successfully threw you off the scent from my metal bending superman strength grip

[MtnDon (Don Miller)]

Side switch under my thumb, lens pointing forward away from me

[nottawhackjob]

“Side switch under my thumb, lens pointing forward away from me.”

Appreciated how to. I was wonderin’ why my side switches were illuminating only my a*s.

Ya really learn somethings here that ya could never learn on your own.

[MtnDon (Don Miller)]

@CRC

That is a very interesting light you have

Thank you. I built it

Stay-At-Home Build (on hand materials only)

I have a few projects I am doing here while practising Stay-At-Home as requested by the NM Governor. Making some picture frames, doing some renovations to my converted cargo trailer camper, taxes, and other fun stuff. I decided I would work in a flashlight build. I am using parts that I have on hand. Some I have had for a while, like the 3 volt XHP50.2 and the lexel driver pictured below. The XHP50.2 is one of several I bought when they first came out in 3 volt versions. It is on a 16mm Noctigo…

[zoulas]

The tail switch is a much better choice. I know this wasn’t your question but reconsider your objectives. The gas petal is always to the right of the brake for a reason.

[ShyOne]

For side switch… usually fingers down, thumb up to operate switch, & light pointed away from me.

Is their any other way???

For the FW3A, other tube lights, & C8 size lights with a tail switch I use a “Cigar Grip” to activate & toggle switch. Then many times I will transition to the grip mentioned above.

[Engine_Guy]

Side switch lights like purse! Real light have a tail switch, so you can hold it like a man.

[Unheard]

@nottawhackjob

“Depends”.

Ok tell us how ya hold your Depends?

I hold em’ between my index finger and thumb farthest away from the soggy parts. Arm fully extended.

I can’t impossibly hold it with just two fingers.

[Jack_Kellar]

Reverse (icepick) grip all day, unless the light is uber-tiny like the Olight S1. Then I pinch-grip it.

[Firelight2]

Handshake grip with thumb on the button. Lens at the front.

[Lightbringer]

I hold mine sideways, gangstah style.

It looks so cool…

[captainkirk]

@Lightbringer

I hold mine sideways, gangstah style.

It looks so cool…

Dangit, beat by Lightbringer.

I was going to say I hope it like a Glock with sights on the side of the slide. Not enough “O’s” in coool…

[djmcconn]

Wolf spider eyes. Showed that to a neighbor one night while we were shooting the breeze. He walked on the pavement going back home!

[wle]

thumb on the side switch///

(not “COP CARRY”)

’’[[why do they do that?]]”

[wle]

@CRC

@wle

thumb on the side switch///

(not “COP CARRY”)

’’[[why do they do that?]]“

This is what I mean by “holding it like a microphone”

If that had a side switch he would be forced to pinky operate.

For even lighting that doesnt create shadows, this is the best way to carry it short of attaching it to your forehead (headlamp).

It illuminates the fore-ground and background evenly without casting shadows from any objects in the fore ground over objects in the back ground.

If you have your thumb on the button, you are holding the light around your waist or if extending your arm, then at best still under shoulder height, casting light on fore ground objects that in turn cast shadows on objects behind them.

“Cop Carry” solves this. As do headlamps.

Im going to try and capture some pictures to better illustrate what Im talking about.

does that mean that Cops can’t really use side switch lights?

i find it easier to point and direct the light quickly and to more directions, in NonCopCarry

wle

[Firelight2]

@CRC

Ideally, light should just be cast straight out our eyeballs lol (and not our crotch area/hips)

Don’t think I agree with this.

Shadows can make it a lot easier to spot obstacles in your path.

[wle]

yes i agree, shadows can add detail

i will sometimes move the light around just to get differing shadows

no-shadows is one look, but shadows-from-different-angles, adds a lot of visual info