You have a Flashlight addiction when:

You are,when……your EDC is a Fenix TK75,Supbeam K40 or O-Light SR95 or something similar with a 2” body and a huge head! HB

When you take a rather pedestrian Solarforce M8 from ~600 lumens to a 5 level 7-3500+ lumens Monster!

Just had a powercut in my area, it must be the first one in Edinburgh for 20 years or so.

I’m so happy right now! lol

… when you go corset shopping for a steampunk costume, and one of your main selection criteria is “does it have a place to put a flashlight or two?”.

The space was probably provided with a gun or keys in mind.

When somebody takes one of your flashlights and says “I’m going to keep this one because I know you won’t miss it” and you miss it anyway.

Good things come to those who wait.

That video reminds me of the Roman candle fights we used to have as kids. No serious injuries luckily. Sometimes I’m amazed that I survived my youth.

My grandfather said the boys he grew up with had contests to see who would skate out farthest on the thin ice that they could see bending under them. I got my face burned with gunpowder a couple of times. I knew a guy in college who only had one kidney, because his brother had accidentally shot him in the other one.

…and they’re in the flashlight, fully modded, within the hour. :slight_smile:

…when 6A to an XM-L2 seems too low

…when 16A to anything makes you giggle

…when you immediately start figuring out how to exceed 16A

…when you have to glue a preferred light together to keep from doing more mods on it.

…when you have no background in electronics, but you’re going to learn to flash your own UI and build complete boards anyway.

I was so proud yesterday.

I was testing a dropin last night, wanted to compare some things before maybe making my own. So I was sitting alone in the spare bedroom with the lights out. Then my 3 year old walked in carrying his flashlight (a little $.50 plastic incandescent that’s dim enough he can shine it in his eyes without hurting himself, safe ‘starter’ light) and told me “Too bright, Daddy. Don’t shine that over here when people are going by.” And then he said in an extra serious voice “Don’t shine at face. Don’t shine in eyes!”, while pointing to his own face and eyes (with his free hand, not his flashlight).

I laughed and told him good job, you’re learning and gave him a high-five.

That's pretty cool GregY. I'd be proud too. Sounds like he is well on his way to not being like the kid in post 154 above.

When you buy an expensive flashlight and it basically sits on a shelf and you just stare at it, turning it on once in a while. And if you see the slightest imperfection , it ruins your day. Now tell me, how many of you do that? BTW, I'm guilty as charged...

I let children play with my Inova red Microlight, the smallest ones only on my lap. I think the red is less hard on their eyes and more attention catching than white.

...even if it's on an interior surface.

Glad I'm not the only one! lol!

When you’ve got BLF in the background no matter what you’re doing on the PC. Swapping between Kindle app and BLF every ten minutes or so.

When you count up your current lights and are disappointed no matter how many you have. Or you like to add up roughly how many lumens your lights would produce if they were all on at the same time. I think I’m around 10,000, but if I add in parts that aren’t installed its at least 15k.

Also, when you refuse to add up how much you’ve spent on lights over the years…