Hi all!
I was thinking of signing up with CPF today, but reading their rules made me think "gee, these guys really ARE assholes...", and then I remembered "But wait! I know somewhere even better!", and here I am. 
My current LED light assortment includes (I have to say "includes", because I'm sure I'll forget half of them):
- Two Small Sun ZY-C84 flood-to-throw lights (18650, Q5), which I keep in the pockets of my jackets, that I'm exceptionally happy with.
- TrustFire F25 stainless (14500/AA, R2), which although ugly as heck, is my pants-pocket EDC.
- Brinyte PD03B (10440/AAA, Q5), modified to fit protected cells, that lives on my keychain, also an EDC. The amount of light from something so tiny is staggering, and it's a nice neutral white too.
- Ultrafire U4-MCU (18650,2x16340,3xAAA, Q5), lives in my desk.
- Three 3xAAA/1x18650 flood-to-throw lights, x2000 I think (no markings), that I keep handy to hand to other people when I know they might not come back, but the circumstances require I hand them a good bright light instead of a total crap one.
- Richuang P36 (16340), also in my desk.
- Ultrafire WF-501B with P7 drop-in. Lives in my desk. Needs foil wrapping, overheats and dims hugely in 15 seconds. And isn't nearly as bright as it could be even when you first turn it on.
- Sipik SK-58 flood-to-throw (14500/AA, Golden Dragon). Nice host, ultra-crap emitter. Might get an XM-L, or at least a Q5.
- Leatherman Monarch (don't remember the number, and it's not handy) 1xAA. Used to be my pants-pocket EDC until I got the F25. Replaced since I wanted something that would also take 14500s. Lives in my bedroom now. I really like the twist brightness control it has, and wish I could find a 14500 light with it.
- Leatherman Monarch (don't remember this one's number either, and it's also not handy) 3xAAA. Only a 1W LED, but it's in a bloody pound of machined stainless steel. I've used it as a hammer. Lives in my tools.
- Two SkyRay S-A1s. Both fried within minutes of using a 14500, despite being claimed to use one. New drivers on order.
- Four unmarked 1xAA 1W lights. Relatively useless, and they don't see much use.
- Ten (or so) 1xAAA lights from the local hardware store. I don't have any information on them, but they were $3 each, and are surprisingly nice. Uses a jumbo-sized molded LED rather than a standard emitter, with a half-assed combination momentary/locking switch on the tailcap. I've JB-welded magnets to several of them. They live in my vehicles.
- Ten (or so) Harbor Freight 9-LED specials. They keep giving them to me. I've never actually used ANY of them.
- A Harbor Freight 1W 3xAAA job. Side-clicky always turns itself on when you don't want it to, so it's dead when you need it.
- Dollar Store 3xAAA job with a few cheap LEDs. Lives next to my bed, and sees a fair bit of use. It's perfect because it's so fucking dim it doesn't hurt your eyes when you wake up in the middle of the night.
- A fake solar-powered light I got at the local hardware store. Seemed to have non-rechargeables in it...
- A number of assorted keychain lights that I gave up on because they turned themselves on in your pocket. Got the Brinyte, never will use any of them again.
- A 1W Luxeon headlamp.
- A cheap 5-LED headlamp.
- Some cheap 20-ish (I'd need to find them and count) LED 3xAAA lights, all of which failed quickly.
- A few DX 1xAA Q3 lights I've given away - not mine anymore.
- Somewhere I still have my very first LED flashlight that I made back in the '90s when indicator LEDs where all you could buy, with a bunch of red (only bright color, blue wasn't even out yet, much less white) LEDs and a tiny 3.6v nicd pack from a cordless phone.
- A bunch of MR16 3W spotlights I keep meaning to mount to my cordless air compressor and other things.
- Ten solar garden pathway lights. Well, 9, I think my landlord ran over one...
For non-LED lights, I have six 1,000,000 candlepower lanterns, two 10,000,000 spotlights, and one 15,000,000 one. They'll all just halogen bulbs in big reflectors with gel-cells on the back. I'm not sure quite how bright one of them is, since I swapped in a 100W+55W high/low car headlight bulb with both filaments wired up...
Umm... I think that's it. Or at least all I can remember. I'm not too bad yet, right?
Current projects are fixing the SkyRay S-A1s, and contemplating modding the Sipik FTT one. A 1400ma driver and an XM-L would do it a world of good, if it could focus it... The Golden Dragon really, really sucks.
--Bushytails
P.S. Gah! If you preview post in non-rich-text mode, it switches to rich text mode, then if you switch it back, all your formatting vanishes! EDIT: And all formatting randomly vanishes anyway? Screw it, I'll write in HTML, even though forum postings shouldn't need to be written like web pages... Oh well, at least this way I can shrink the smileys from down to so they don't break the line spacing!
