Bright flasklight?

[Stormin Mormon]

Lowes, Walmart, Home Depot, Ebay, Amazon.

[Stormin Mormon]

The kell skould I kave a clue?

Must be a new barrel of laughs?

[Meanie]

C'mon....a light that holds your liquor.

Here >>>>>>

[rbowman]

Not any more. High output LEDs require fairly sophisticated electronics. That's one place to screw up. I have some 3 AAA flashlights that were 3 for $20 at CostCo. The switch in the tail glows red to indicate a low battery. Unfortunately, that little option also drains the batteries in short order. The next generation skipped that option.

Another thing to avoid are flashlights that have a lot of little dome shaped LEDs. They may look cool but they're 15 year old technology.

[Paintedcow]

Thats what I thought :)

[gregz]

Gee that's really bright. That's over six times brighter than my really bright flashlight. Doing some research, 1000 lumens is about all a T6 can deliver around 3 amps. How is the flashlight being advertised ? It uses AAA with optional holder. AAA suck, and I've had those plastic holders fail, break apart, over time.

I stick with AA mini flashlights, and bigger cells for bigger physical sized ones. I know The Home Depot has sold some decent larger sized single LED lamps. Don't know what's current. Flashlight shopping can be TRICKY as in above link.

500 lumens is really bright. You CAN'T look into the beam. 100-200 lumens is a good lumens vs battery life rating.

Greg

[gregz]

I case you drop it.

Greg

[Eagle]

lol Seek and you will find!

[Eagle]

lol I like this group. :')

[KenK]

Stormin Mormon wrote in news:8rN1y.170863$ [e-mail]:

Less than $20

In the house

Close

Hopefully not

Once a week?

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[hah]

Useful when you want to see how full the flask is, without waking anyone up.

[Mark Lloyd]

[snip]

A have a couple of those. They're very dim. The brighter ones usually have a single LED.

[BenignBodger]

I was going to recommend a 'Wel-Bilt' light from Northern Industrial. Nice and sturdy and does double duty as a weapon -- I have two of them. Sadly they've discontinued that double-C-cell 3-W model. The do have a bigger badder type that also uses C cells and which puts out 10W. Downside is that it costs three times as much as the old one. Item# 38473

[Eagle]

lol Who's the one with the boogered nose?

[Stormin Mormon]

Sounds like a Durabeam or some thing like that will do fine. Two D cells, and get alkaline batteries. Not heavy duty batteries. Should be able to get some thing well under twenty bucks.

[Eagle]

Uh huh....and who are you comparing yourself to? I bet you have one eye, one horn, fly around and your skin is purple, am I wright pretty muster?

The winged one

[BenignBodger]

Just got an email from Lowe's about a 'special' on a rugged bright flashlight for $20, normaly $40. Their description is "Coast 360-Lumen LED Handheld Battery Flashlight Item #: 425982 | Model #: 20396". At 360 lumens it should be bright enough for almost any purpose.

[Eagle]

Good point. lol