Mini-M@glite Pro Plus - private offer on Amazon, new in box, 20% below retail price. Couldn’t resist, I just had to have one of these.
SureFire E2L-AA. I must be nuts! As if I really needed it, or as if I really had the funds to pay for it. Well, it was offered “used, with no signs of wear, in original packaging” on ebay, for slightly less of two thirds of what a new one costs. Couldn’t resist the form factor, 2xAA setup, and OD-coloured type-III ano, so I just had to have it. Especially to see how well my XM-L-U2 750mA converted solarforce T5 competes against it (just on high, I don’t need five days of constant running in moonshine mode anyways chuckles pun intended, btw). Me loveth me T5, O yes!
Sipik-SK98 - yet another one. You just can’t have enought of those, once you think of them as hosts in need of a new driver and proper heatsinking, and a new electric switch.
numerous rechargeable lithium batteries. A few months ago, I ordered four protected 14500s from manafont - one was DOA, and two more weren’t protected at all. Just to think about it, no circuit board at all! Oh well, we all have a bad day now and then, surely they did not intend to mess up my order; so I just thought I’d give them another chance and ordered a dozen more 14500 protected trustfires, and a couple of protected 18650s for good measure, as well. With that many cells on their way, I bet there will be at least a decent set arriving after all, even if one third of them can be tossed right away.
oh, and (not really related to torches) - a two-DVD set of the “Triffids”-remake, after the novel by John Wyndham. I had missed the BBC broadcasting years ago (it is easy to miss any BBC broadcastings whilst being in Germany), and for a long time I thought that every other attempt at making a film out of that novel would be pure blasphemy. Still, my best friend from Boughton/ Notts convinced me to give it a try.
Deep joy!
Hopefully it’ll be brighter than my king with over double the throw of my STL-V2….