[AT] LED flashlights--Bill

John Wilkens jwilkens at eoni.com
Thu Dec 22 21:38:59 PST 2005


Gotta hand it to you Bill.  You've got guts to go down into those holes!



At 07:16 PM 12/22/2005, you wrote:
>In my other life I'm a cave explorer, and EVERYBODY in the caving community
>has had LED lights for a season or more now.  The big draw is the battery
>life; we go from 2-4 hours on incandescent lights to many 10's of hours with
>the LED's.  But I don't like the focus of the lights as well.  In the cave
>where we're trying to see limited distances they are fine but I also have an
>LED Mag light at home, multiple D cells kind of light, and you can't see any
>distance with it because it doesn't focus.  The panel of LED's is too broad
>to focus.
>
>Actually, I still use a carbide lamp for most of my caving, unless I'll be
>down in serious water.  But there aren't many of us carbide cavers left.  I
>think most cavers quit before they get to my age.  I'm just more careful
>about what kind of trip I get myself into any more.  Mainly I don't want to
>spoil a good trip for those in the crew who are more capable.
>
>Where battery life isn't an issue, I stick with incandescent.
>
>>
>Bill Brueck (brick)
>Chatfield, MN, USA
>
>Confusion is a higher state of knowledge than ignorance.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
>[mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of charlie hill
>Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 8:33 PM
>To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>Subject: [AT] LED flashlights
>
>I guess it was a year or more ago that we were all talking about the handy
>new LED flashlights.  I've been wanting one and haven't gotten around to
>getting one yet.  Well last night I was at a friends house.  He had just
>come home from work and still had his mini-mag lite in it's holster on his
>belt.  He pulled it out to look at something and it was different.   I said,
>
>is that an LED flashlight.
>He said well it's a regular mag lite but now they make an adapter for it
>that turns it into an LED.
>
>Hmmmm where do you get those?  He said Wal-Mart.
>I haven't seen them but I'll sure be looking.  Anybody seen one at Wally
>world or anywhere?
>
>Charlie
>
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