It has been so long I can’t remember. Maybe 15 years ago I bought a Craftsman light that uses the 19.2V tool batteries.
I’m feeling a need for one.
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I started getting LED flashlights in late 2007, so I haven’t gotten an incandescent flashlight in at least sixteen years.
Incandescent flashlights aren’t very efficient, and the ones that I had weren’t very bright, so I am not tempted to get one. 
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It’s been at least 10 years, though this year I bought some spare bulbs for a Surefire Aviator that I had forgotten about.
Recently I rediscovered how nice incandescent lights could be though, so I am going to be reviving a few old lights and maybe put together a new one from a KD P60 host, or a spare ultrafire P60 light I have. Turns out that 9v lamps work pretty well with 2S li-ion batteries.
Incan’s are a bad memory from our yoot.
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I Picked up a cheap floating flashlight to throw in my boat about 10 years ago but I feel no need to revisit incandescent bulbs nor do I wish to revisit alkaline batteries.
Those dull yellowy low power days are over for me.
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I had a Mag lite 2d back in the early 2000s and thought it was the best thing ever. I had a 15 lumen mini mag lite AA which I got a number of years ago cant exactly remember. Anyway I think incandescent flashlights are obsolete now that led flashlights are commonplace. They’ve become cheaper, lighter and more powerful. I still have my mini mag AA as a relic from the past, however I doubt Ill buy anything incandescent again.
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That time frame probably fits me as well. I had LED before that, but when I got my Fenix L2D Rebel 100, about September of '07, I don’t think I ever went back. Unless the Porter Cable 18V tool light I got around 2011 counts… but I’m not even sure its incan… I think it might be xenon or similar.(unless that counts as incan?)
To be honest, I don’t think I’ve even seen an incan flashlight for sale for about a decade…
Unfortunetally that tehnology will probably soon be gone, since incan light bulbs(above a certain wattage, what is it like 5w? ) are now illegal, at least in the US.
I have bought NOS Tiger-Head brand 2xD this year in old village shop.
It is tin plated flashlight with 2.5V 0.3 amps bulb.
It was last example in this shop and seller said that it sit on shelf more than 20 years after they sold a hundreds pcs. I remember that my grandmother had similar lamp when I was kid and I buy it for nostalgy.
I paid 2 euros for it 
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Yeah, I agree entirely that incandescent lights are obsolete as lighting, but a high-performance incandescent (assuming high pressure xenon counts as incan) like a li-ion P60 can be a nice light to play with.
At least with rechargeable Li-Ion cells I can still enjoy my leftover incandescent lights guilt-free, without expensive and disposable CR123A batteries or terrible leaky alkalines. The only expense becomes the occasional burned out bulb, which are pricy but at least seem to still be available.
I’m glad for the power and reliability of LEDs and modern lithium batteries; but I wonder what it would’ve been like if LEDs took longer to be perfected and regulated incandescent lights had become popular, instead of being a few rare models like the SF A2 Aviator. Maybe the next thing would’ve been HID or short arc lights, instead of being relegated to very special throwers.
Hopefully the SFT40 3000k will be able to replicate the feeling of a hotwired incandescent light once it’s readily available, even if it won’t have the football or donut shaped hotspot of old maglites and P60/P90 lamps.
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I think I would like one for the nostalgia of it. Plus, to have it to compare to the modern lights and show people the amazing difference. In other words just to play with it and not to really use it.
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Ages ago, think it was Home Despot that had Minimags for/on sale for like 9bux each, so I grabbed a few for MatchMods.
Wouldn’t waste my time on the hotwire bulb and The Dark Doughnut Hole Of Death.
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Bought some backup Xenon P60 bulbs from KD earlier this year.
The warmth and “punch” of incandescent is different to all my LED lights. Without the xenon bulb, my solarforce would just be another black tube with clicky on end.
Variety is the spice of life and all that.
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How long? I don’t know, but I’m pretty sure it has been at least 5 minutes.
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Thinking back, I don’t think I’ve ever actually bought an incan torch. The nice people of Inca just gave me one whenever I needed one. Next time though, I’ll have to decline because I think I still have a couple in a box somewhere.
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I don’t think I’ve bought any myself, we had a several at home when I was a kid, but they weren’t new, so I don’t know, maybe 30 years ?
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Mains AC powered general-purpose Edison socket lamps, perhaps; I bought 7W Candelabra bulbs not too long ago off the shelf for a project. Doubt that DC flashlight bulbs will be regulated off the market.
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Can’t even remember. All I know is I have about 5 Maglites taking up space.
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I mean, like, supposedly household hotwire bulbs are “illegal” or whatever, but why is it I can walk into any supermarket, DIY store, etc., and pick up a 2- or 4-pack of Reveals and other hotwire bulbs no problem?
Like, first the 100s would become verboten, then the 75s, then the 60s, etc., with special exceptions for 40s like in-oven lights where curlies and LEDs might not fare too well. People were buying up blubs by the crates to have a lifetime supply.
Now? I can still pick up a 4pak like nothing ever happened.
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yeah, the first time they instigated this like a decade ago, it didn’t fly long, about a year I think, maybe 2, then I think it was with a policy change when president or something like that changed, and we went back to “legal” .
It went back into effect late '22, or early this year.
(Yes, I’m too lazy to go google it for exact info…)
But yeah, its hit or miss.
And as I said before, there is a power consumtion and/or physical size caveat to the whole thing… according to the “law” you can buy 50 million watts worth of incan nightlight @ 1w(or whatever) each bulb, but not a single 60w bulb! Its hilaraious.
We bough a pile of 60 watts when they were still cheap and nasty low CRI Edison LEDs were twelve bucks a pop.
My folks never understood why they needed to replace a 20 cent bulb with something 20x more $$ at the time.
Now we have those great Phillips LEDs and I got some really nice 3K bulbs at Costco.
And how many 50,000hr. LEDs have died on you? Unless you kept the receipt - and who does that? You’re SOL.
Still, nothing like an incan for a lovely spectrum.
All the Best,
Jeff
Idk when I was pretty young I bought a mini maglight. Mostly used to read books under the covers after bedtime…