[AT] LED flashlights--Bill

[Bill Brueck]

I think it's just all what one is comfortable with.  Put me in a tight
squeeze underground and I'll work through it, not worried.  Will jump over a
crevasse deep enough my light doesn’t shine to the bottom.  Put me on the
roof of my house and I stay way back from the edge on the 2-story side and
am real careful stepping on and off the ladder on the 1-story side.  Doesn't
make much sense, does it, LOL.

B²
 
Bill Brueck (brick)
Chatfield, MN, USA
 
Confusion is a higher state of knowledge than ignorance.


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[mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of John Wilkens
Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 11:39 PM
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Subject: RE: [AT] LED flashlights--Bill

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.
>
>B²
>
>Bill Brueck (brick)
>Chatfield, MN, USA
>
>Confusion is a higher state of knowledge than ignorance.
>
>
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>[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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