This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment -----Original Message----- A pet peeve of mine is lighting. I buy LED flashlights with 100,000 bulbs and they don't stand up. The bulb may be fine but they stop working...I extend the spring...no avail. I need a technical guide to lighting in our work. I have a headlight I use for camping that I can use for work but they also seem to not like banging around in the kit....SUGGESTIONS? -- David, lighting is also one of my pet peeves, especially portable lighting. This began during my first job with a miserly dealer who would come into the shop and turn the lights out (to save energy). Over time (age and eyes), matters of proper lighting have unfortunately become either a fetish or an obsession. I'm thinking about building a display case for the out-takes! I'm gradually homing in on some favorites, but at the moment can best advise what -not- to buy, whether tradiional, LED or headlamp. Will spare everyone the details, since the goalpost moves almost weekly. Bottom line is that I still have yet to find any ONE that fits all needs, and routinely carry a minimum of three sources of illumination ON me, more in the kit, and even more in backup. I've even kludged some components together to make portable lights from something that was not originally designed to be portable. (Funny, a couple of them became commercially available years down the road, but not due to my efforts). The best advice I can offer in exchange for the detail you provided is: (1) Don't carry 'em in the kit. Or, don't let 'em bang around in the kit. Some of the LED's are not just a matter of the bulbs -- some of them have discrete modules that don't take kindly to the shuffling. Many of them are made offshore, and with some of the components/leads being quite small, there's the chance of either cold solder joints or just plain fragility; (2) With headlamps, the switch is often the culprit -- especially slider-type switches. (3) If you want to really dig in to the subject, check out the discussions at http://www.candlepowerforums.com/. Oh, my newest experiment is two days old, so I don't have a firm opinion. It's an LED 'upgrade' kit from NiteIze that retros the ubiquitous AA Maglite into an clustered LED. Details found at < http://tinyurl.com/73zuk >. These AA Mags were the only game in town for a long time, and since I have about six of them, I thought I'd try the retro on one of them. Regards, Jim Harvey ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/ed/d4/54/1a/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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