Do you still own any non LED powered lights?

I have some old plastic incans and toylights and a Walther tactical xenon whatever light. Runs on two cr123 and was 60lumen, 10 years ago I thought that is brighter than the sun lol……today even a small keychain light is dim if it has only 60lumen.

I really like the old metal flashlights. I sometimes thought about buying some of these old things. The only problem is that you can’t mod them without destroying the old things and that is a sin because there aren’t so many of them out there yet.

Werner;

Hardly a sin as there are currently almost 3000 ebay listings for used collectible flashlights and the majority look to be unmodified incandescent lights. Some dating back to pre WW2 it looks like.

I keep an ican minimag just in case I have to look into my wifes or pets eyes for first aid purposes. You don't want to do that with an LED.

Hoping I don't ever have a doctor or cop try to inspect my eyes with an LED light.

Also keep some HID's around. They still rock.

Actually I found my old brinkmann light from way back when. I remember it being very bright but run time was terrible so being the pack rat that I am, I stashed it in the closet. I think it lasted twenty min tops and looks like this one.

An Aladdin mantle-type kerosene lamp
Five or six various sized carbide caving lamps.
I think all the PR2 flashlights have Dorcydirect LED dropins in them.

I have a like-new angle head double d-cell camo light I purchased at clothing sales while serving as a biomed repair tech (35G) in the early 90s that I plan to evenually convert to led.

I’m curious why no LED light to check the eyes?

Only incan I have is a Mag85 (takes the WA1185 bulb) which I spent some amount on buying the bulbs, AA batteries, coated glass lens, bi-pin adapter, alu reflector and battery holder. Seems a shame to mod it to LED, but the OTF lumens is “only” about 800-1000, with ridiculous amounts of heat, whereas LED with the same runtime should blow it out of the water.

Protecting eyes during eye exams, the eye doctors say …

pardon the digression. There’s hazards with everything, of course, no argument there.

I don’t use my carbide lamps to check eyes either.
No blue light hazard, but it tends to make eyelashes evaporate and leaves big black smudges ….

Streamlight Strion. Xenon bulb. So not technically incan, ha. Still love it for personal reasons, as it was a gift from my dad. I think he paid $120 for it.
Awesome bit of kit back then. Came with a household and car charger. Redefines “warm” tint.

Every time I get it out I’m reminded of how bright I thought it was (compared to my Maglites etc.) at the time. Now my $15 Convoy C8s absolutely blow it away.

I would consider it incandescent, and i know what you mean, back in the day you needed expensive parts to get lots of light, today we can blow it away for pennies on the dollar (and its more reliable and durable to boot) :slight_smile:

Yeah that makes sense, thanks. Basic cool white would be no good.
I was actually thinking of HCRI LED for use in the medical field (eyes, skin, internals)

You were right I ordered some old and used metal incans, I found a new in box seagull light lol…
I got one very used white elephant 3D today, will try to find out with what I can clean and polish these things…is this just metal or is it plated with chrom or so?

I once found a kind of wiki of all the old flashlights, can anyone help me find this again…?

Flashlight Museum
or
Old Flashlights

I got these by googling “Flashlight Museum” and there’s more from there. I still love the old lights too but use LED lights for their performance.

Phil

Yes, I have 3 incand 2D Maglite clones, will be replacing their bulbs with cheap Ebay LED dropins for 1.4$ each and later on maybe use as host one of them for 2D thrower.

Those cheap 1.4$ LED dropins are great to use with classic looking flashlights that can be had really cheap and run on D batteries for long runtimes, not overheating and not using those multiple crap 5mm LED’s that I cant stand!

Which eBay dropins do you mean? Led bulbs?
I have seen this and found it interesting because it is a screw in option and very flexible 2-9V

The hard part is the driver which fits in such a small housing and I am wondering about cooling. I have build a e10 lamp with two 7135 and a small heat sink and it got pretty hot…

These:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/161425787179?var=460459847368

They are even cheaper than what I said, there are plenty of them at different prices ;)!

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I keep an ican minimag just in case I have to look into my wifes or pets eyes for first aid purposes. You don’t want to do that with an LED.

Hoping I don’t ever have a doctor or cop try to inspect my eyes with an LED light.

Also keep some HID’s around. They still rock.

I’m curious why no LED light to check the eyes?

I didn't realize my post sounded so authoritative. I don't have any medical knowledge to justify not wanting to shine an LED in any creature's eye's. I feel LED's shouldn't be shined into an eye at close proximity because even my weakest LED's have significantly more intense output than my small icans. I find even looking into moonlight mode at close range too uncomfortable. Firefly mode seems to work, but my lights that have a firefly mode also have other modes that are very intense. I wouldn't want to accidentally slip into one of those modes at close range. I would just feel safer using a weak ican if someone ever needs to entrust me with their vision.

These look like a led and a resistor soldered in a e10 socket…and that in a Dcell light would indeed be a eternal light…

The one with the xpg I linked sounds awesome:

2-9V, regulating driver, 120lm, works on any polarity., xpg2 ror XPE2….but 15$

Are there any good driver options for 3 cells? Just a standard nanjg or has anybody a better option?


I have one of the mxdl AAA lights modded with a nichia119 which I use to shine in throats and that stuff.

Several years ago I used to work in mainland Europe, and while there I had met my current girlfriend. I proposed to her to come back to London with me and she accepted. We were pretty poor at the time so we hadn't the budget to rent a house or flat to ourselves in London. We finally decided upon this house share with 4 other people in a terraced house. There was 6 of us, two single guys who were aged in their early and late twenties, and a couple who were in their early thirties but looked like life had been very hard on them so they appear to be look their forties. The house was cramped enough as it was without having to deal with the couple's drunken exploits on a daily basis. They would keep us up at all times of night ranting and raving and singing drunken songs. This all came to a head when I confronted them and told them to be damn quite once and for all. This didn't go too well and while being abusive to me they also decided it was a good idea to be abusive to my girlfriend. It was then that I realised they could not be reasoned with as I could see they had zero capacity for empathy or consideration of others. Seeing as none of us would back down I genuinely thought me and the guy would come to blows so all kinds of things were going through my head to include my girlfriend getting hurt - it doesn't help that I'm very protective and have little issue with physically engaging an aggressor who is in the wrong. I remember they came outside of our room and messed with our handle as if trying to get in, and would shout at us through the door in order to intimidate. It was then that I decided to go to the local Argos, a British catalogue store, and buy a 3D Maglite. This was to be our protection should they engage in an attack. I kept that Maglite right by my side of the bed at all times, ready to be wielded should they try anything. With my girlfriend's help I kept a level head and remained calm, and thankfully they also calmed down so the Maglite never got the opportunity to protect us, but at least it gave us peace of mind.

This was a long time ago and I was able to quickly increase my salary in order to afford renting a whole flat to ourselves in London. It's got a nice but small garden that we have summer BBQs in. I still keep that Maglite by the side of my bed in the unlikely event intruders break in, but I rarely ever use it as a flashlight.

The last time I switched it on was a of couple weeks ago. I had bought a Thrunite TiS 1xAAA torch with max output 120 lumens, and I wanted something relatively week to compare. The only thing I had that was sub 300 lumens was the Maglite with its incandescent bulb. I switched it on and the beam profile made me cringe it was so full of artifacts. This little TiS was superior in every way, asides from one little detail - the Maglite's ability to protect my family.