The All Purpose Flashlight CHAT Thread

[slipkid42]

 
Because cracking open that beer is the one thing that'll ensure your survival in an emergency situation.

That just may save some lives, me cracking open that beer

[EBuff75]

I got a gift from Olight.  I guess it was a prize from their recent contest for the 250th, but I don't remember entering.  Anyway, it's a nice pen with a light at the tip, red and white lights on the clip (with adjustable brightness), and a green laser (with two brightness/power levels) on the top.

https://www.olight.com/store/open-3-multifunctional-pen-light

$80 pen for free, without even asking?  Yeah, I'll take that!

Beats the free pen that I received last week in a Doctors Without Borders charity appeal.  It's a combo pen, screwdriver, and light and essentially fails at all of them...    This is at least the 2nd of these that I've gotten from them.

I got one of those tactical/survival multitool pens as a gift. I rank them only slightly higher than those steel survival cards. You know the ones - one edge is a saw that doesn't actually saw, another edge is supposed to be a knife that doesn't cut anything except maybe yourself, a "screwdriver" in one corner, a hexagonal cutout that hopefully fits some random nut or bolt that for some reason your very life depends on. And my personal favorite: another cutout vaguely in the shape of a compass rose that indicates direction except nobody-knows-how-it's-supposed-to-work-because-lets-be-honest-it-doesn't-actually-do-anything.

The bottle opener probably works, I'll give it that. Because cracking open that beer is the one thing that'll ensure your survival in an emergency situation.

I actually got one of those survival cards as a gift last year.  You forgot the 3-inch ruler on one side of the card!

[majorhavoc]

I got a gift from Olight.  I guess it was a prize from their recent contest for the 250th, but I don't remember entering.  Anyway, it's a nice pen with a light at the tip, red and white lights on the clip (with adjustable brightness), and a green laser (with two brightness/power levels) on the top.

https://www.olight.com/store/open-3-multifunctional-pen-light

$80 pen for free, without even asking?  Yeah, I'll take that!

Beats the free pen that I received last week in a Doctors Without Borders charity appeal.  It's a combo pen, screwdriver, and light and essentially fails at all of them...    This is at least the 2nd of these that I've gotten from them.

I got one of those tactical/survival multitool pens as a gift. I rank them only slightly higher than those steel survival cards. You know the ones - one edge is a saw that doesn't actually saw, another edge is supposed to be a knife that doesn't cut anything except maybe yourself, a "screwdriver" in one corner, a hexagonal cutout that hopefully fits some random nut or bolt that for some reason your very life depends on. And my personal favorite: another cutout vaguely in the shape of a compass rose that indicates direction except nobody-knows-how-it's-supposed-to-work-because-lets-be-honest-it-doesn't-actually-do-anything.

The bottle opener probably works, I'll give it that. Because cracking open that beer is the one thing that'll ensure your survival in an emergency situation.

I actually got one of those survival cards as a gift last year.  You forgot the 3-inch ruler on one side of the card!

For all your life-or-death sub-3 inch measuring needs! Why, that not enough to measure even the short edge of my survival towel! 

[MacWa77ace]

For all your life-or-death sub-3 inch measuring needs! Why, that not enough to measure even the short edge of my survival towel! 

For some, its imperative to disprove those 2" rumors on the spot. 

[NT2C]

I got a gift from Olight.  I guess it was a prize from their recent contest for the 250th, but I don't remember entering.  Anyway, it's a nice pen with a light at the tip, red and white lights on the clip (with adjustable brightness), and a green laser (with two brightness/power levels) on the top.

https://www.olight.com/store/open-3-multifunctional-pen-light

$80 pen for free, without even asking?  Yeah, I'll take that!

Beats the free pen that I received last week in a Doctors Without Borders charity appeal.  It's a combo pen, screwdriver, and light and essentially fails at all of them...    This is at least the 2nd of these that I've gotten from them.

I got one of those tactical/survival multitool pens as a gift. I rank them only slightly higher than those steel survival cards. You know the ones - one edge is a saw that doesn't actually saw, another edge is supposed to be a knife that doesn't cut anything except maybe yourself, a "screwdriver" in one corner, a hexagonal cutout that hopefully fits some random nut or bolt that for some reason your very life depends on. And my personal favorite: another cutout vaguely in the shape of a compass rose that indicates direction except nobody-knows-how-it's-supposed-to-work-because-lets-be-honest-it-doesn't-actually-do-anything.

The bottle opener probably works, I'll give it that. Because cracking open that beer is the one thing that'll ensure your survival in an emergency situation.

I actually got one of those survival cards as a gift last year.  You forgot the 3-inch ruler on one side of the card!

Marked in tenths of an inch!

[12_Gauge_Chimp]

Did a battery check yesterday and I found I'm seriously low on CR123 batteries.

Low as in I've got maybe two extra ones, but that's it. So it looks like a battery order is in my future.

[majorhavoc]

Did a battery check yesterday and I found I'm seriously low on CR123 batteries.

Low as in I've got maybe two extra ones, but that's it. So it looks like a battery order is in my future.

EBL CR123A Battery 6 Pack $6.99

[12_Gauge_Chimp]

Did a battery check yesterday and I found I'm seriously low on CR123 batteries.

Low as in I've got maybe two extra ones, but that's it. So it looks like a battery order is in my future.

EBL CR123A Battery 6 Pack $6.99

Neat. That's a hell of a lot cheaper than the pack of SureFire batteries I was looking at on MidwayUSA.

A 12 pack of those is 30 bucks.

[EBuff75]

You made me curious, so I checked to see how many I've got.  I only have one light that really calls for them, as most of what I have use li-ion rechargeables, but some of my lights come with CR123A batteries when new.  Turns out that I've got over a dozen of them sitting around, new in their wrappers - a mix of Streamlight, Olight, Tenergy, and Energizer.

[12_Gauge_Chimp]

I've got two still in the package and four that are either out of date or getting close to it.

So I'm close to out of spares, but thanks to MajorHavoc, I'll be ordering some from Amazon soon.

I was going to order some from MidwayUSA, but their prices went way up in the last couple months on the SureFire brand I usually use.

[EBuff75]

This week's Project Farm video was on flashlights!  I only own one of the lights reviewed (the Acebeam P17, which came in 3rd), but it's my bump-in-the-night light that lives on my bedside table.  Somewhat predictably, the pricier lights (Fenix, Olight, Acebeam) came out on-top (brightest, best batteries, etc.).  Not exactly an apples-to-apples comparison, given the huge variation in size and battery types, but still some good stuff in there.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh0Cwunn8J8