I've decided to buy a "half decent" torch and have narrowed my choice down to either a fenix pd35 or a nitecore p12. Can anyone recommend the best place to buy either of these for the best price. I've looked at eBay but worried about cheap Chinese copies.
Spec me an LED Torch
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I wasn't impressed with mine (4D conversion)
Far less output that a bog standard chinese XML, and it stopped working after hardly any use.
Eventually I'll replace it with a DX driver and an underdriven XML
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Anyone looked at the luxor flashlight on kickstarter? https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/plxdevices/luxor-worlds-first-digital-focusing-flashlight
Thoughts?
Thoughts?
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£17 for a lousy Maglite!
Get one of these instead - see my photo above in the thread for a shot of one.
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You can get the Sunwayman D40A from banggood for £30.83 delivered using code BGD40A.
http://www.banggood.com/Sunwayman-D40A-CREE-XM-L2-980-Lumen-LED-Flahslight-4xAA-p-87386.html
http://www.banggood.com/Sunwayman-D40A-CREE-XM-L2-980-Lumen-LED-Flahslight-4xAA-p-87386.html
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Dropped my Led Lenser T7 off the top of a generator the other day. No visible damage on the outside, but it only lights up very dimly, briefly flickering to full brightness when you tap it. I'll try to get spares for it when I get back if I can, or if they don't pretty much come to the cost of a new one.
In the meantime, I bought a generic rechargeable LED torch for $10 in Dalian, China, which is surprisingly good. Still, given the build quality though, I don't see it lasting.
In the meantime, I bought a generic rechargeable LED torch for $10 in Dalian, China, which is surprisingly good. Still, given the build quality though, I don't see it lasting.
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I dropped a cheap one and it broke the welds on the circuit and similarly it makes it high resistance, low light I think
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I bought the Led lenser P14 a few years ago after seeing it was good on forums. Definitely an investment for life in my opinion, Though there must be better torches out now for £45
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It's a "we did it because we can" type of thing. Nothing that clever about it. Just a big series pack of 18650's, and a standard 100W halogen. Probably a 12V one just being fairly heftily over volted.
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Any flashlight that produces too much heat instead of light is a bad flashlight. It just shows it's inefficient.
For contrast i jacked my car down on a Fenix PD30 for about 45 minutes in lashing rain without realising once.
Went outside to find it and there it was in the centre of the tyre submersed.
Had a teeny surface scratch and still works fine a 4 years down the line
Can anyone recommend some good 18650s?
I got a nice little torch which I'm really happy with but went with a couple of cheap 18650s for the time being, although I have only charged them once so far I'm pretty sure they're very fake and very crap.
Preferably available with amazon prime
I got a nice little torch which I'm really happy with but went with a couple of cheap 18650s for the time being, although I have only charged them once so far I'm pretty sure they're very fake and very crap.
Preferably available with amazon prime
Can anyone recommend some good 18650s?
I got a nice little torch which I'm really happy with but went with a couple of cheap 18650s for the time being, although I have only charged them once so far I'm pretty sure they're very fake and very crap.
Preferably available with amazon prime
Nitecore and charger
Couldn't sleep, the thought of a new torch for the next Urbex trip crossed my mind then one thing lead to another and I've ordered a replacement for my trusty L2:
Maybe this new drop-in will act as middle ground for the times I don't want to lug around the TN31.... Will see
Maybe this new drop-in will act as middle ground for the times I don't want to lug around the TN31.... Will see
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