It's a gift ..
I used to wake up late so torches came in handy for night time walks (I did without them for a number of years due to a lack of research on the latest LED torch developments). Nowdays I mainly use headlamps (Zebralight H60) for around the house or camping. It's only summer for one half of the Earth so my main torch use is for finding my way to and from my car, light weight AAA-powered torches I find are the best for this, otherwise a DX keyring light suffices.
Well, I tried to use up all my half use alkaline cells. I have a lot of them. I use them in the bathroom. I let the kids use them as night lite. I tried to use them as much as possible. I tell my wife we are saving electricity(money), ye right. Also try to get the kids away from tv and video games, into something a little bit more useful.
Summer time is not really much different here daylight wise, a couple hours less night, a couple hours more daylight. So my torches really are just things to fiddle with.
My desk is adorned with a constantly changing array of beautiful pieces of machining and in most cases good engineering. Sometimes I have a block of aluminium on my table, and I envision what it could be. A heatsink for a mag conversion?, a new torch?, a new finned heatsink for my led spot desk lamp?, however its mostly used as a means of taking heat from the heater into my bed - pre-heating where my feet go. (no I dont use a waterbottle... This is doing it with what Could be a torchlight)
Yeah, you got a good point. I supplement with Vit. D.
Once I got fat and old, that was the end of the heat for me too. Fall is my fav.
The other thing is that winter stops the joke known as Penndot from f*****g up the works around here. I won't get started...
Rich
I use my 18650s mainly just for work. I am an automotive technician so the usefulness of a good flashlight goes a long way. Recently new to being a flashaholic as well, my buddy and coworker has turned me on to it and I’m totally hooked! It’s so bad my wife is already getting annoyed by how many lights I’ve been ordering :-0
Summer beats winter for flashlights, at least for me. Winter's cold, wet, and rainy, so yeah, it's nice and dark, but you're miserable outside and can't wait to get back in. Summer, you go camping, you go for long walks, you get revenge on the twit who drives side streets with his high beams on... you enjoy being out*.
*except for the bugs. mosquitoes, black flies, horse flies... ARRGH!
Welcome Kozineffect! Nice avatar :) Enjoy your time here.
Yes I agree, summer beats winter for me as well. It’s more of a fun time to go exploring in the woods with flashlights, graveyards, camping, etc… also, very fun to get revenge on those pest drivers! Thank you for the welcome, I hope to learn much on here and have a good time! :bigsmile:
At only two weeks for summer, for me the barely dark night isn't a big con, the extra heat is a bigger con IMO.
This time of the year we have even more electrical storms than usual, so constant power outages, at least for 10 minutes until the transformer breaker resets.
Summer: A Flashaholics worst nightmare
...at first i thought the OP was referring to Summer of DD.haha
...sorry Summer.
most of my lights get used year round. key chain light for walking to and from my car at night. small floody headlamp for enclosed space house work, for stuff like taking out the trash, for getting back to my car on early evening hikes, and for backpacking during the summer. a couple general purpose AAA and AA/14500 lights for grabbing stuff from the storage shed at night and for checking for cats and raccoons. the one light that only really sees winter use is the big headlamp i use for yard work.
Someone, quick check the world-wide weather reports and let’s figure out where the mysterious SB56637 is from 
I’ve always thought we should have a “where in the world is SB56637” contest
(just kidding)(my guess is Australia by the way)
... I feel so sad when i saw this topic at first,lol. Well, Summer here is always the friend of you all.
Summer TIME : a flashaholics worst nightmare...maybe a more fitting.
just a suggestion gcbryan...
over here its the rainy season that is a nightmare. cant really go out at night to use the lights not unless its an emergency situation. then they do become very handy.
;)
I've had 2 power outages already. The first one shorted my only LED globe in the house :(.
for some reason I thought Singapore.
Now that made me laugh 