Duh… All my flashlights are powered by batteries too except for one searchlight which plugs directly to my car’s cigarette lighter jack (which gets its power from a battery by the way). :bigsmile:
Anyway I still keep a few incan flashlights stock like the searchlight mentioned above which has a 50W H3 bulb (are these counted as incans? ). No I don’t use them but its nice to have some in my collection.
yes but not used often.
vintage and old school stuff i dont want to mod.
the ones i do use are big springtop lanterns that are recharged by solar panels in sheds,garages,ect.
I have about a dozen little plastic single-AA incan lights that I give to my boys as ‘training lights’. They love flashlights, but I’m still teaching them to use lights safely (they’re 3 and 5). These little incans are cheap, like $.50 each, so I don’t mind if the boys break them, and they’re less than a lumen on a fresh battery so they can’t hurt themselves if they use the light wrong. They only get to use my LED lights on moonlight mode, and carefully supervised. For now, anyway.
Oh and I still have a Mag 2-D ROP. I have a few other Maglights left, but they all have LED conversions.
I’ve got several Surefire E2’s(a couple modded with LED’s), an M6(MN15), a pair of A2’s(incan/led hybrid), plus a couple of hotwire setups(1331 & 1185) in Solarforce hosts, plus a few p60-style incan dropins in various voltages, and I think I’ve got a 3D generic incan(not sure where it is).
but the unknown brand light is waterproof down to 7m and floats (even when it is not claimed to do diving)
great beam profile on that with less to no rings or artifacts
I have a bunch of old non-LED flashlights around. I no longer use any of them anymore though most still work:
1xAAA grey maglite solitaire. 2 lumens! Focus adjustment from “spot” to “donut”.
2xAAA black mini maglite. A much more useful incan flashlight than the solitaire
2xAA blue mini maglite.
4xAA UKE dive light
4xC UKE dive light (quite well built actually. Was awesomely bright compared to what was available when I got it 20+ years ago).
Various other cheapie unknown brand plastic lights:
small fluorescent powered by I think 4xAA from Radio Shack.
3xC combo fluorescent with incandescent.
4xAAA combo fluorescent with incandescent from Sharper Image or Brookstone.