Not including mod costs but most are stock anyway.
My math might not be perfect, but more than a dozen were well under 20. There are some empty boxes. I only keep boxes if they might be gifts. A few were under 10!
If I bought other cabinets it would be for lights that wish I would finish “fixing” them. Not very useful, currently.
The top shelf wasn’t cheap, but even the fenix on the right I did ok on, close to 100 iirc.
The FD65 is very unpopular with flashlight people, it seems… A giant zoomie that doesn’t throw. I find it very useful (runtime, beam shape, tint) but it doesn’t impress people like a wall of light or a good thrower. Fenix skipped both.
Thats some good pricing.
Most of my lights cost more but are not modded, my first was a Cyclone C88 which was $45. A bunch of Convoys in the $20 range, my latest Wurkkos WK30 was $31.
But my Xtar Moon RC2s were about $10 each, though about $15 each with shipping.
@dthrckt
I see you have 4 angle flashlights with green colour in the body.
Could you advise why you have four of them? Different emitter per flashlight, perhaps?
Is that a Rayz 1000 Lumen 9 x AA on the bottom shelf, second from left? Seven years ago, back in 2014, I was so excited about that light that I bought three of them from True Value. A few months later was the Coleman C-Tac60 600 lumen XM-L2 18650, and then finally, I discovered the Four-Sevens MMU-X3. Oct. 2014, 1,600 lumens, 26650, 3 x XML2.
I have never seen a photo or mention of the Rayz 1000 Lumen on the forums. You have a nice collection, and thanks for the happy memories. :)
Just a bad decision tbh. I bought them many years ago, very inexpensive. I hsd assumed they were all metal, but just the part sticking out from the body is metal, so you can’t go with a higher power driver. I modified one w/ an xml (I think they have xpe clone) and gave it away, never got around to doing the others. Very tight beam. Maybe someday I’ll find a better host for the TIR in them.
They’re USB, so they could run off a battery. I have some shelves where I charge all sorts of stuff next to this so they’re plugged into AC->USB.
They cost more than others but the sections were almost the same measurement as the shelves, so I was able to get 2 strips above each shelf. I just had to notch the edges of the shelves w/ a file to pass the wire.
I have my edc lights in the top drawer of my desk. Beater lights and headlamps are less organized in the garage. Throwers in my backpack. Not used lights are stored in their boxes.
Everything is a compromise. That method offers abrasion protection and what is available is easily selected. I like the tradeoff made against maximization of use of space.
Thanks, I bought the 9.8. In this photo you can see that it is divided into sections, almost the same length as the shelves, so there are 2 strips above each shelf. It has several brightness settings but the only mode motion controlled that turns them on briefly, which is what I wanted. In the reviews on amazon someone showed where to remove a resistor that disables the motion sensor, so the power button works like a normal one.
