You should have a flashlight hunting day kind of like Easter when kids go out and hunt for easter eggs but in your case they search your house hunting for flashlights.
I left out the Solarforce Skyline 1 as with the stock driver it doesn't perform well with an 18650 - it needs 6V which is also its maximum voltage.
Twenty-eight 18650s are needed to fuel that little lot.
And here are their holsters. Must go out and get some black dye for all those camo holsters.
And here they all are on a belt which is slightly longer than my waist. This lot with cells weighs about 7kg (15-16lbs). Runtime ought to be quite a long time if I use them one at a time.
Their light-emitting bits. ROP High, ROP Low, SST-90, 400 lumen showerhead, ROP High fed by two 32600s, Low-power LED replacement bulb. Runtime is measured in weeks. 3C Streamlight Twin-Task clone, triple K2 made by Elektrolumens.
CR123 lights. There are a couple missing - a Nuwai 3xCR123 light with a Luxeon V which was the monster powered multi-die LED of its day - and the Mr.Lite LT3 that I forgot about since it was on my belt.
AA/AAA/CR2/Strange cell lights. Far too many for a picture of less than 4 acres to make sense.
I had two of those - both with Luxeon 3s in them. One of them was fearsomely bright. The other one (Needless to say, the surviving one) wasn't. The light two to the right of that was my first light with a driver in it - the back of the reflector shorted it and killed both the driver and the LED. It has a rather odd ProLight 3W LED in it and a couple of resistors to tame the current.
Just playing. Took the 2 minute values for several lights, added them together then collected the lights and pointed them at the ceiling. The room sure was bright - the torches were providing all the illumination.
This isn't a picture of the full collection, about a third of them. A little bit different as this picture has at least one of every different emitter I've got.
Wow, some awesome collections!!! really need the glasses for these!
I started with my DIY LED torches, two AA cell with resistors and 5mm clear Super Bright LEDs, PVC pipes, 80c slider switches. I was freaking out at the 40mA I was giving these yellow LEDs! And then came the $10 white 5mm 9000mcd LEDs (OMG), and then the singe cell boost circuits from silicon chip magazine (electronics hobby magazine) put into 2AA bodies from the local $2 shop. Toward the end of my highschool time the luxeons started coming out, but I didnt know I was a LED addict then. Between then and Now, there have been many torches along the way, DIY and bought. Maglites at the time were the pinnacle of torches, with me buying many other cheaper ones along the way! My dad then came back from Hong Kong with a Luxeon III Superfire, which has AMAZING machining quality, with threads smoother than anything i have even now! Thats where it started. About 5 months ago... Bought the Trustfire R5A3, and then all these pre-loved Nitecore torches in varying conditions.
So ill try to take a picture of what the collection is currently at, sorry only text atm.
Fishinfool, I love that D10 in the front, thats a BEAUTIFUL grey, Im waiting to find one of those for myself.
So I can't sleep...for a change. So what's better to do during the night than taking photos of flashlights :P
Actually it's quite fitting since my insomnia is pretty much the reason I started buying them in the first place.
When I can't sleep I go for a walk through the park behind my house and down to the local river, so I needed a decent torch.
The problem is that when I'm overly tired I'm very week willed and just start buying anything shiny of eBay :P
Anyway heres about half of my collection, pretty much everything that was on or in my desk.
I picked up the lantern of eBay about a month ago, it was £7.99 including batterys (3xD). I expected it to be pretty rubbish for that price, but it's amazingly well made and gives off a good amount of light. I hadn't intended to leave that battery box in shot, but couldn't be bothered to stand everything back up after what I was doing because too intresting.
Lillyzilla's devistating attack on Torchio :P
I might as well put these here as well - my charging setup.
I bought the little black charger on the right as it was much cheaper than buying a suitable 18650 battery holder. I gutted it of all it's insides and attached suitable leads. As I wouldn't be using it to charge two cells at once I then soldered in a AA sized holder.
Very nice charging set-up, Pook. Do you have trouble removing the AA's from that modded holder? I wonder if two part epoxy would help. This reminds me I need to get a decent charging set up some day.