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. 
: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. 
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? 
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. )
When your next camping trip is planned around when the SUN ISN’T SHINING!…
When you wake up in the morning next to your latest and greatest flashlight. I'm guilty as all hell. Please don't tell anybody!
Crikey, thought we all did that!
When beginning to develop a strong, unnerving feeling of insecurity and helplessness whenever not carrying a light on your person.
When your self esteem totally depends on the number of torches you are carrying at any given time.
When starting to look upon lights as a fetish - an object believed to have spiritual powers; an object of excessive attention, or referance… fixation…
When torches that had been lost or misplaced suddenly and unexpectedly turn up again - in your nightly dreams. Bonus freak points when you wake up in a sweat (no matter whether cold or warm - it’s the sweat which counts)
When relatives and/or coworkers find you talking soothingly to the light you are disassembling and reassembling just to clean the contacts and threads - on the toilet.
Take an extra bathroom break to read this forum.