You have a Flashlight addiction when:

… when you can glance at a light source and tell the approximate PWM speed, and everyone around you insists it’s not strobing at all.

… when you see a complete stranger showing off the “flashlight app” on their phone, and it takes all the willpower you can muster not to interrupt their conversation with the fiery blaze of your EDC — followed by a lengthy discourse on all the finer points of lighting that they’re missing out on.

… when you always have to visit the lighting section of any store you enter, for the sheer entertainment value of laughing at their selection.

… when you get grumpy after prolonged exposure to daylight.

… when you maintain a sense of freshness and novelty by frequently switching between different lights, thus allowing you to gorge yourself beyond any normal capacity… much like switching between different types of junk food.

… when you can trick yourself into doing unpleasant tasks by only doing them at night, in the dark, because the task becomes kind of fun when it involves your favorite light. … and when your significant other figures this out and starts asking you to do all sorts of chores at night.

… when you replace all the bulbs in your house with high-CRI neutral LED bulbs on fancy dimmers, and then almost never actually turn them on because you’d rather use a torch.

… when you insist on having a darkroom even though you’re not into photography or film.

… when you put up blackout curtains and then use a torch during the day.

… when your significant other rewards you for not bringing up anything related to lighting during social events.

You wonder how far a BLUE SUN could throw with a large/deep enough reflector! :ghost:

Who else other than a flashlight addict would know the approximate surface temperature of the sun (5800K), same as the color of a “daylight” bulb (5000K - 6500K)
If you didn’t know that, you know it now, and won’t forget it.

When you have destroyed two Smart-phones trying to attach a 3 inch reflector for better throw! HB

Post pics when it’s finished :stuck_out_tongue:

When your family is inside the restaurant eating and you’re outside because there is a huge field to test the throw of the three lights that came in the mail today.

The sun. Definitely needs a reflector, but more importantly, dedomed. :stuck_out_tongue:

:8) Thought my hot rod Cu C8 light could put light on the point where the guy was welding on our truck this morning.

Need to bump power levels. :wink:

Wonder why semi-colon 8 right parenthesis is supposed to make an embarassed smiley but it comes out the sunglasses wearing cool guy instead? Hmmmm….

:8)

When you keep reading this thread and you do mental check boxes on what else you have missed out in this journey…

...When you begin to see PWM in natural sunlight? Sealed

when you search for 20mm cooler fan on ebay because you figured a way how to put it in C8 with 3.8A modded qlite … J) just waterproof will be issue :Sp

When your last (one month old) 400K lux light does not cut it anymore! Time for a new one! HB

… when you own a torch whose lumen output is a bigger number than its color temperature.

Or, in a few more years… when your light has more kilo-candelas than Kelvin.

When you have been banned from “The Other Place”. Like a right of passage. Customize a light, get banned from CPF or have one of your posts deleted or thread closed. All some the steps toward adiction. (When I got banned there, I received invites for here. Thanks guys.)

depends on what kind of reward 8)

- You have an addiction when you need more cases for your lights after filling up 5 of them…

When you ask another member where he got those cases

When you have so many lights,that you can’t remember how the UI is supposed to work,or how to power it up. HB

I CAN’T STAND THE TRUTH.

When your personal collection has a larger inventory than even some quite large stores!

When you have more batteries than The Battery Warehouse.

the 4 bigger ones came from Costco and HomeHardware, and the smaller one to the left is the case that came with the Olight SR90, ( i use it for batteries & Chargers atm. )