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.