How do you use (or have used) your torches?

Kill the monster!!! KILL THE MONSTER!!!

(They are after angry bluish low CRI Latticebright flashlights )

On Thursday night I walk the big trash can down to the road for Friday morning pick-up. It’s a 300 yd walk down there so it’s close to half a mile round trip. I spotlight bunnies, coyotes, foxes, cows, cats, and the all important prowling skunk. Seeing those and identifying from as far away as possible is tantamount to a nice Thursday night walk. :slight_smile: I usually pick through the lights and carry at least two, maybe 3, as well as a head lamp. Rotation of models is pretty common but a couple of throwers stand out for skunk patrol duty. Rediscovered an old favorite recently, a heavily modified Crelant 7G5 with a clean de-domed XM-L2. Very decent thrower indeed! Easily shows me what’s out at 500-600 yds.

With an impingement in my shoulder and a pinched nerve in my neck, I like applying heat. I’ve found that I have multiple lights that can do this quite nicely! The big BTU Shocker with 3 9V MT-G2’s can really put some radiant heat deep into the shoulder and neck, really helps a lot even if it’s only temporary. Yes, shine the light at the sore spot from 3-6” away and pick the mode level you can endure the longest. lol Plan on trying one of these big lights on some King’s Hawaiian rolls later….

My Ti/Cu Quad is worn daily on the belt or waistband and is used for dropped things (pinched nerve to the thumb makes for a lot of dropsies) and all sorts of general use, from inside the car to out in the driveway, under the bed to the dark confines of the closet, it’s just always on me and always the first light I reach for.

The Texas Poker (Avatar) has been around my neck for 4 years, midnight use and many other scenario’s, so helpful to literally always have a light “on ya”. :slight_smile:

I use the BTU Shocker and/or the TR-J20 and/or my DBC-05 triple XHP-50.2 to help illuminate a room for photography, whether a head shot sitting or the family dogs for a client, or just taking macro’s of lights recently built. These 10,000 to 13,000 lumen lights really do fantastic at ceiling bounce.

All the little lights are just fun to carry when going out at night, out to eat or just shopping, if for nothing more than to play with em. From the X5 to Mi7 Ti, from the 3400 lumen Mec Army PT16 to the ( un named proto light) it’s always just fun to pull a great light of the pocket and get people’s curiosity piqued. :slight_smile:

The bigger problem is when you have over a hundred lights, you tend to develop a group of favorites and then ignore the others. So from time to time I dig through the back shelf and bring forgotten lights forward for the rotation of play. Keeps things interesting and helps me remember just what is what. (Ok, sometimes I cheat and look them up in the notes. :stuck_out_tongue: )

Forgetting a UI in a once daily used light makes for some interesting purple spots in the range of vision…

I live in the suburbs in a reasonably well lit neighborhood which hasn’t had a power outage at night in 10 years. So… I have to look for excuses to use my lights. Other than just playing with them, I use them as an excuse to walk the dog at 11pm. Because the streets are decently lit, I don’t really need the lights but I use them anyway.

Oh… I also use them when camping but that only happens a couple times per year for me.

Today it was a “nothing much” day:

I carried the S2 in the morning to a visit in my future apartment complex, possibly to look at strange discolorings and telltale fissures or other such indicatives of edifice pathologies (I’m an almost graduated construction technologist, so it’s instinctive). Didn’t actually have much of a chance to use it, because my block isn’t open to visitations yet and a careful look under ambient light on the flat I actually got to visit revealed nothing noteworthy. It matches the positive concrete tests that were run at the laboratory I was an intern in until recently - I definitely snuck a peek on the lab results :smiley:

Now less than an hour ago, I used the Biscotti M1 to pick up my brother at the front gate of my house, and then to escort him back to his bike and help him wipe the cat fur off his seat, that my rascal of a cat loves to use it as a nap bed. There’s no streetlights whatsoever in my street, so darkness holds dominion on not-cloudy nights, but even then I didn’t need more than the 1% mode to do it thanks to the M1’s small beam diameter. After he was gone on his merry way, I spent a few minutes admiring the foliage of the many trees around under the 7A tint; I’m not as pleased with it as I thought I would, but that was my pick and I’m sticking to it. Maybe it’ll grow on me as time goes and not seem too gimmicky.

For the time I spent out of the house, as always I had the TN12 at the ready and my almost-new Lumintop Tool (soon to be replaced by a Tool CRI I purchased yesterday on a Banggood sale for $10) riding as a backup. I just don’t like the possibility of being left in the dark without a light even if I’m the opposite of a nyctophobe.

Everynight, I pick a flashlight and take the dog out. At other times when something gets the dog worked up I’ll go and investigate. I live on 10 acres so flood and throw comes in handy, lots of trees. Front pasture is about 600 feet (200m) to the treeline.

Here’s a pic of Lugnut yaking at a deer, across the pond. About 100 meters away (Convoy L6), the deer was not feeling threatened.

Last night I lend my Lumintop Tool for a library visitor who had to mess with his contact lens. The first floor bathroom’s lights are fried, and I wasn’t about to send him off to the second floor with messed-up eyesight; being nearsighted by almost 4 degrees makes me wince in sympathy, as I know what it’s like from the times I lost a lens from my glasses :confounded:

A good deed done, I’d say :innocent:

Just to bump the thread:

Used the Convoy S2 as illumination to take a shower :smiley: The ceiling lamp is fluorescent in ugly CW, so away with it!

I always shower with a tail standing flashlight now. I like the mellow, low level.

Well… I don’t really “use” my flashlights.
I buy them, improve them and arrange them to the rest in my shelf.


I don’t often use one, mostly the Nitecore TIP on my keychain or a triple S3 at home.
Sometimes I grab some of my lights at night and go out into a dark place, just for the joy what my babys are capable of :slight_smile:

Yep, and just now I found out how nice warm white is for that application. My M1 is now my bath light! :stuck_out_tongue:

Forgot to mention, I keep my Jetbeam-II Pro in bed with me just in case I have to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night.

I’ve been sleeping my Texas Poker on a Ti chain around my neck for 4 years now. :wink:

I can quit anytime I want to…

I always sleep with a 1xAAA keychain light on my shirt collar. It varied from a Fenix E01 (on a steel neck chain), to a Thrunite Ti3 in CW, to the one in NW I’m using today, to a Lumintop Tool CW (already mentioned it in this thread, but gave it to my mother since it’s so convenient with all the comparatively bright modes and the tail switch, plus she loves cool white). The same will happen to the Tool CRI that’s in the mail.

I don’t need help, thanks for asking :smiley: