RESPECT THE L.E.D! Don't Be a Big Dummy Like Rhino!

[rhino465]

Okay . . . here's the thing. My experience with LED flashlights has been with crappy little things you get at Harbor Freight in multi-packs, each with a bunch of wimpy LEDs in the head. They're just not that impressive.

I've been following talk about more . . . potent . . . LED lights, but I've never actually owned one.

So ... I ordered an UltraFire WF-501B with a Cree XRE-7090 lamp assembly. It arrived today. I loaded it with crappy Chinese CR123A batteries that are wimpy and don't work well in my SureFire G2s or Pelican lights. I was not expecting much.

I pushed the switch. While I was looking into the lens. :faint:

When my vision returns, I'll let you guys know how well I like the light. :freak:

Some of you may know that I my avocation is Extreme Dumba**ery, and this is yet another example. I probably should have paid attention to the fact that this light is rated at 125+ Lumens. I probably should have pointed it in a safe direction before I hit the switch. But hey, I thought LED lights were wimpy.

Yeah, I know what you're thinking. :shakehead: Sometimes I just can't help myself.

[mitchshrader]

yeah, you can use them LED lights to start fires..

on the moon.. ;)

[Buckaroo]

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

Well, now ya done it!

Was this a "hold my beer" moment?

[rhino465]

Yeah, if I drank beer, I probably would have said, "Here, hold my beer. Watch this . . ."

I'm a Darwin Award candidate in the making.

[rhino465]

yeah, you can use them LED lights to start fires..

on the moon.. ;)


Now you tell me!

On the bright side, I do have a nice tan on part of my face ... just beyond the crispy parts.

[sjstill]

Rhino, you crack me up :rofl::rofl:


eta: where did you order the light?

[cougar_guy04]

I swear, I don't know what doing something like that is like.:whistling:

[rhino465]

Rhino, you crack me up :rofl::rofl:


eta: where did you order the light?

I got it from www.batteryjunction.com, but you can get it at www.dealextreme.com for less than half the price and no shipping charge. Of course, I didn't realize this until I had mine. The downside of www.dealextreme.com is that everything ships from somewhere in east Asia (i.e. their "fulfillment center"), so it takes quite a while to receive an order. Battery Junction is in the US and naturally faster.

I also realized that I can save people a lot of money on x-rays/radigraphs. All I have to do is stand behind you with my new Cree-powered light and shine it through your body while the doctor looks from the other side.

[rhino465]

I swear, I don't know what doing something like that is like.:whistling:


Great Googley Moogley, son! Maybe "they" dosed us with something at RHIT when we were freshmen (respectively)!

[boby]

:rofl:

Thanks for a great morning laugh!

[notasccrmom]

Great Googley Moogley, son! Maybe "they" dosed us with something at RHIT when we were freshmen (respectively)!
I can see it...:supergrin: wait, then that means... nah, I'd never do something like that.:whistling:

[epsylum]

The downside of www.dealextreme.com is that everything ships from somewhere in east Asia (i.e. their "fulfillment center"), so it takes quite a while to receive an order. Battery Junction is in the US and naturally faster.

Dealextreme usually takes about 2 weeks. Sometimes their deals are worth it though.

[dblagent]

I keep a 120+ lumen light by my bed now after my car was broken into not long ago. Who needs a gun when they will be so blind after the light they cant get away or even find me? :supergrin:

I love my LED lights. I carry a Lumapower AA light for work and I love it when people offer me a big ol' flashlight and I say I have my own and pull out that tiny light. The look when I turn it on and have to choose a lower setting because it's too bright for close work is priceless.




At least when I blinded myself I was looking in a mirror! Oh, that might not be better now that I think about it....

[biggl35]

Let me get this straight, Joseph, you had a ND with a flashlight.

Wow, what a luminus mistake.

[mitchshrader]

you have done flang a cravin on me for a 42$ sposed to be a Q5 Cree 240 Lumen ? (i ain't bleevin it, but OMG) .. light.

http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.8687

this is the one that you can use to fry a hamburger in 30 seconds.. ;)

[Buckaroo]

I just ordered several of these
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.4068

They work well in my G2s

[rhino465]

Let me get this straight, Joseph, you had a ND with a flashlight.

Wow, what a luminus mistake.

Heh! I think I need to be put back on the short bus.

I also remember that "in the old days" that LED lights didn't have much "throw" compared to a good incandescent lamp. I don't think their quite with the incandescents in that regard for the same level of power and lumens, but they've greatly improved. Tonight I was driving behind Blockbuster and decided to "test" my new UltraFire Cree. I shined it at the wall of the movie cineplex, maybe 125 yards away. This was in the area of a strip mall, so it wasn't all that dark, but the damn thing made the handicapped parking signs on the wall of the theater glow like they were making their own light. Cheese and Crackers! That's pretty good for a light that you can get for $15-25!!!

This Cree LED epiphany is kind of like my awakening to Israeli Battle Dressings. I thought they were just gimmicks until I learned how to use them properly and why the special features are so useful. I'm sold on IBDs and now I'm sold on Cree LED-powered flashlights. Not just gimmicks!

[rhino465]

you have done flang a cravin on me for a 42$ sposed to be a Q5 Cree 240 Lumen ? (i ain't bleevin it, but OMG) .. light.

http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.8687

this is the one that you can use to fry a hamburger in 30 seconds.. ;)


Great Caesar's Ghost! You could knock birds out of the sky with that thing! During the day!

"Hey, Beaudreaux, is dat dere a full moon tonight?"
"Non, Thibedeaux, dat jos dat damn yankee mitchshrader shinin' he new flashlight at de moon in Indiana! Dat fo shuah"

[epsylum]

http://pixpipeline.com/s/32788df440cf.jpg (http://pixpipeline.com/d/32788df440cf.jpg)

:rofl:

[boilergonzo]

You are a big dummy... and yes, I've done that!

I could almost hear my rods and cones creaking under the enormous pressure of the photons!

Synapses crackled, and I blinked rapidly three of four times with no apparant change in what I was seeing. Sort've like blinking in a dark cave and seeing nothing but darkness with eyes opened and shut... only I was in a lighted room!

Don't worry. Full color vision usually returns in two to three days...

It is amazing how good even "bad" flashlights have gotten. My Surefire of five years ago cost an order of magnitude more than similar CR123 lights available for $20 at Wal-Mart! Now the new retina-sizzling LED's are getting cheaper!

[rhino465]

My vision is recovering and I've managed to avoid any ... significant ... reenactments of the original "event." For some reason, I feel a compulsion to look into the light. It's like when you're acrophobic, you feel like you need to jump when you're forced to go someplace high.

[Scutter01]

You know, I was fiddling with my LED earlier today and it reminded me of this thread. I was thinking "hmmm, I wonder if this little maglite is bright enough to have the same effect?" You know what? It is. :upeyes:

/still have purple spots

[cougar_guy04]

My vision is recovering and I've managed to avoid any ... significant ... reenactments of the original "event." For some reason, I feel a compulsion to look into the light. It's like when you're acrophobic, you feel like you need to jump when you're forced to go someplace high.
I think it's just the brainwashing from RHIT. Normal people would think, "That's a bad idea, I shouldn't do that again." Whereas after a few engineering classes it's, "I wonder if it does that every time?"

[boilergonzo]

Statistically speaking, n is too low, so the p-value has not been demonstrated to be below .05 (I am choosing this threshold for you... you may choose to pursue .005, etc. if you wish).

We cannot, with certainty, ascertain that when you turn the light on and aim it into your eyes, it will indeed turn on and be bright.

I would suggest additional testing until statistical significance is achieved...

And as a Purdue guy... I can tell you that we DID do something to your water...

(but relax... I'm in molecular genetics. I am not an engineer!)

[rhino465]

Wait a minute ... if we look at this from a Quantum Mechanics point of view, if my eyes are not there to be blinded, does the light from the flashlight actually exist???

Oh, man! More experiments are needed to test the hypotheses!

[biggl35]

STOP THE GEEK TALK.


<--The tow truck driver can't understand you.

[Scutter01]

STOP THE GEEK TALK.


<--The tow truck driver can't understand you.

Don't look directly into the light. Especially don't do it twice just to make sure the first wasn't a fluke. :supergrin:

[boilergonzo]

Sort've like my stupid moment of fame. Raining hard outside. I roll down window on Chicago Toll road and pay toll, and then it won't roll back up. After I merge with traffic, I look down, push the button to make sure the window will go up, and it DOES! Yeah! Then I think... did I just push the wrong button since I did not look down? Or did that really happen? There are four buttons there, so I must have just gotten the wrong one, right?

Idiot driving car tests this theory. Window goes down and...

EUREKA! CONFIRMATION! Window will NOT go back up! It was INDEED failing, and now I have 120miles to drive in the rain with the window all the way down to remind me of my brilliant little test of an intermittant switch! :drowning:

(and for those who like equations and whimsical nonsense, yes, the Eureka / Archimedes / wet person connection was intended!)

[sjstill]

After reading this thread, I somehow feel really normal..... :rofl::wavey::tongueout:

[Dyerbill]

You're lisening to a guy who locked himself out of the house in sub-zero temps...
locked BOTH sets of keys in the car............
drove 26 miles to work in his pajamas......
mailed an entire month of bills without the checks..............



Rhino may be dumb...............
but we all take the cake!