Main thing is â put in Energizer Lithium primary cell, and a spare in the drawer for five years from now when the first one is tired.
They wonât leak.
LED lights with alkalines can go on cheerfully looking bright while alkaline cells are corroding away inside them, unlike incandescents that went dim orange as corrosion started to leak.
Yes, the Energizer lithium primary cells will cost more than the flashlight.
But theyâre apt to last longer as well.
Do you need to buy one, or is making one an option?
Lend her one, take the Mag, do a Match-mod on it with 800mA boost driver (Fasttech) and 90deg TIR lens (Amazon/uxcell) for something nice and floody. Itâll have some decent lumens, but theyâll be nicely spread out over a wide area.
Or if you donât mind an angry blue color, a Nite-Ize LED replacement.
This is apparently the deluxe model the Crime Scene Investigators use. I think those Police 5w models are intended more for your average beat cop. :smiling_imp:
Please refrain from using foul language on the forum âŚâŚ
the word NEBO is not to be uttered .
i like the $2 #3 zoomies âŚgas de-domed while still in the light and 1/8th of the slider filed down to make both the flood super wide and laserlike in throw mode . mod takes 10 minutes.
youâre right about old people not being able to push a buttonâŚ. you might want to try a super light AA twisty off ebay for about 5$
Beauty of these cheap lights is if they get lost or ruined with an alkaline itâs no great loss .
I didnât mean the gas de doming only took 10 minutes âŚ.
I de dome emitters in lights by adding a little gas to a 2 shot shot glass. then add paper towel and make a small ball of the paper towel to act like a wick âŚand i just set the emitter on top of the ball . next morning i knock of the emitter clean it up with some alcohol and let it air dry ⌠done it to about a half dozen #3 zoomies âŚthere is nothing to lose and the improvement is pretty dramatic âŚ. the flood is as big or bigger than any other Flood to throw light Iâve ever seen. A good NW xpg2 doesnât hurt these lights at all either
Appreciate the details, Boaz. Will try it myself asap. I ruined a latticebright from an sk68 clone by dunking it in petrol overnight. The bond wires came right off by themselves, and Iâve been hesitant to dedome cheapies ever since.
I replaced the incan bulbs in a pair of Grannyâs 2D plastic Duracell brand flashlights with the Dorcy LED replacement bulb and she loved them. They will run for days on lightly used batteries.
Rather than go back to low-brightness incandescent, you can filter the LED, or now finally even buy lights that specifically donât interrupt sleep.
I gave some of those (and over-the-eyeglasses light yellow safety glasses) to one of my neighbors who was just about to be given heavy duty sleeping pills and a CPAP machine.
She says itâs helped a lot to change the evening lights, and has held off the $$$ medical intervention.
You can find the same thing much cheaper with the usual blue-white emitter, and cover that with an amber/yellow filter fairly easily.
Iâve had no luck zero nada finding any lights from China using amber 590nm LED emitters in motion sensor nightlights
(possibly because they donât translate âamberâ â and âyellowâ means âwarm whiteâ which has a blue spike)
But lest anyone coming along not understand, hereâs the spectrum â the spike is the blue light part of the white LED spectrum.
LEDs are fluorescent lights, remember â a blue/UV source underneath a phosphor that absorbs some of the energy and re-emits photons in the warmer part of the visible range
No offense, I know you guys know this.
Please donât post pictures of what youâre dreaming about that keeps you awake. Family friendly site here.
Itâs funny, I have all kinds of lights around, but I find that I grab a cheap little SK68 off my nightstand the most. I swapped in a 3W warm white emitter about five years ago. (you know, the type that have ceramic bases and big electrical tabs). The light doesnât go full flood or zoom. The reason I reach for it most is that its shape makes it easy to hold and turn on/off. Also, the tint if very nice in the house in the middle of the night (like hank says above). Itâs also small enough to stick in a shirt pocket and has a pocket clip that prevents it from rolling around. Translated: Itâs where I want it to be when I need it.
I keep thinking I should update the emitter, but I canât because the darn light does itâs job well as it is.