A neat, inexpensive, cool little light....(PICS added)

aren’t that way. But anyhow it looks like these things are gonna be a challenge for the young and the brave, eh? I don’t know maybe somebody’ll come up with a new work-around to make them friendlier. Well they can always just go direct-drive and leave the fancy driver out of it I suppose. But then again, direct-drive with a AAA prolly ain’t too swift right? Prolly get heat, no runtime, dead-leds, and destroyed batteries just for starters. :~

Yeah, they do look Led-Lenserish at that.

The ‘Joule Thief’ thread Rufusbuck mentions above now really has me thinking in circles. 8) Linked here for the morbidly curious……