6-Pack 6-LED Aluminum Flashlights - Any good?

I just bought this 6 pack of Husky LED flashlights at HD. There's 6 LED's per flashlight, and each one uses 3 AAA batteries, which were included. 6 flashlights and 18 batteries for $9.97. How could I pass it up?

I've never used an LED flashlight before and I am amazed at how bright these things are.

My question: Am I going to remain happy or is there something I don't know - something like I'm going to get about 10 minutes of battery life so I'm gonna need to carry all 6 flashlights with me.

Are these things any good?

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DerbyDad03
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Kind of a silly question, dont you think? Judging from the description on the link you provided: Check out the name? "Husky"?? Probably made by kids in Tiawan. Check out the batteries? Alkaline? Nope. Try "Heavy Duty"......in other words, not alkaline so they wont last all that long. You may have to tap them on something hard once in a while to get them to work or stop them from flickering but all in all for $9.97 its not to bad. Use em and toss em. Bubba

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Bubba

Don't you be bad-mouthing Husky - they're The Toughest Name In Tools.

Just ask 'em -

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DerbyDad03

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Probably OK but I would not expect any heavy duty type illumination. I like LED's because the LED should not fail and you get a lot more out of your batteries. Number of LED's is not an indication of how much light you would get and you want to think in terms of lumen's or candlepower. I have a 12 LED lantern that does not give enough light to read by and a single LED flashlight that is bright as any flashlight I have.

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Frank

I have one of these:

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This site has a lot of very good LED lights.

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Jim Rusling

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Ah, but Northern Tool had 24 packs of AA or AAA alkaline batteries for $3.99! Hang on while I look up the brand.....

Ah, yes. Battery says "Northern Industrial (TM). Northern Tool & Equipment, Bunnsfield, MN"

Good ol' American-made!

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HeyBub

You did good. I've seen lights similar to this at Real Deals Dollar Store. Harbor Freight has lights like this, on sale for 3.99 for two lights. The heavy duty batteries are probably good for one to two hours or so of light. Alkalines last four times as long as carbons. I'd suggest to give the heavy duty batteries to some kids, and buy yourself some alkalines. Best price I've found for AAA or AA alkalines, at Advance Auto Parts and Battery. Or Harbor Freight when they are on sale.

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Stormin Mormon

I had some LED headlamps (for human heads) and after several months not all the little lights were working. Now I have a tiny Dorcy that uses a single AAA and I use it every night and never go off into the dark without it. It even works pretty well with a NiMh rechargable but it's quite bright with an alkaline battery and one will last me about a month of walking around here and there which would include a few trips down to the creek (600 foot walk one way). It only has one LED and I think it's brighter than the headlamps with 6 or 7 LEDS.

I also have one of those "crank" flashlights and it has a choice of one or three LEDS. It doesn't last all that long between cranks but heck, it always works when I want it to and unless my other hand is busy...

Personally I'd go with the Dorcy single LED and a hand crank light which you should be able to get both for around $12 or $13 or there abouts. Some of those crank lights are selling for around $5 or $6.

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Ulysses

I just paid 5 $ for one light and thought that was a great deal, its 6 led, 3 batteries, its my favorite light. Put in good batteries when those burn out.

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ransley

"Stormin Mormon" wrote in news:gh20un$rmn$ snipped-for-privacy@news.motzarella.org:

I had a box of HF "Thunderbolt" AAA alkalines,and they leaked before I used half of them.

Reply to
Jim Yanik

I remember someone else mentioning that. I got a load of AAA cells from Ebay, "infinity beyond", black and gold case. Many of them leaked. The Infinity AA cells were fine.

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Stormin Mormon

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IMPORTED and CUSTOM LABELED for Northern Industrial in China or India.

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salty

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I went after those but they sold out of them quick. I did buy the Husky 1AA

2 pack for $5. They are smaller and the heavy duty battery has not dimmed after 1 hour.
Reply to
JohnR66

Sniff.

Me golden idol is tarnished.

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HeyBub

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That reminds me of the free flashlights radio shack used to give away. They required batteries that gave RS profit far in excess of what the flashlights cost.

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AZ Nomad

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Gillete business model: Give away the razor and sell the blades.

In addition to the flashlights you mention, we see it today principally with cell phones.

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HeyBub

Where is your HD, I went to mine today and they were 19.95, maybe if I can tell them the store that has them for 9.97 I can get your deal. They look good and I bet knowing HD the warranty is great, maybe lifetime as other HD stuff is.

Reply to
ransley

The aluminum sounds good to me for that price, I use dollar-store batteries (I've gotten 24 for a dollar at times) that hold up only slightly worse than alkalines, so zinc/carbon batteries powering LED's should be fine.

Unrelated... As for LED's we had a snowstorm here Monday as I commuted to work. As I came to the LED-based stop-and-go lights all of them were invisible and caked with snow, wherease the older incandescent stop-and-go lights were clear of snow. Somebody needs to put heaters in those new LED-based stop-and-go lights, they are pretty dangerous in a driving ice or snowstorm, LED's cant melt snow very good I guess. You would think the traffic companies would know this shit.

Reply to
RickH

Remember the grey ones with the red lens holder? Those were awesome. The black ones with the yellow lens were good, too. Wish I still had several of those.

Reply to
Stormin Mormon

Computer printers, too. A couple generation ago, Standard Oil gave away kerosene lamps in China, same concept.

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Stormin Mormon

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