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LED Flashlight Review
Several months ago I reviewed a LED flashlight that used a magnet
sliding through a coil to generat electricity. There were posts that stated that some Chinese LED flashlights on the market were fakes using button cells that could not be recharged. The moving slug was just put in to look good. The one I bought from PRO Hardware was legitimate and has worked perfectly for three months with very little charging required. One way to identify a good moving-magnet flashlight is to put it near some paper clips or such. The magnet is so powerful that the clips will jump at the flashlight and stick to the side. The flashlight in question is 7 inches long is made of clear plastic and has a black ring at the front. It is PRO Hardware number 736N5950. I imagine that there are lots of them around and they would make good stocking-stuffers for those of the Kris Kringle persuasion (not that there's anything wrong with that). |
LED Flashlight Review
About four months ago,I saw some of those shake em up magnet flashlights
in the sporting goods department at the Wal Mart store.I shook a few of them up,but none of them showed any light. cuhulin |
LED Flashlight Review
ve3... wrote: Several months ago I reviewed a LED flashlight that used a magnet sliding through a coil to generat electricity. There were posts that stated that some Chinese LED flashlights on the market were fakes using button cells that could not be recharged. The moving slug was just put in to look good. The one I bought from PRO Hardware was legitimate and has worked perfectly for three months with very little charging required. One way to identify a good moving-magnet flashlight is to put it near some paper clips or such. The magnet is so powerful that the clips will jump at the flashlight and stick to the side. The flashlight in question is 7 inches long is made of clear plastic and has a black ring at the front. It is PRO Hardware number 736N5950. I imagine that there are lots of them around and they would make good stocking-stuffers for those of the Kris Kringle persuasion (not that there's anything wrong with that). The two that I tried provided a weak light with limited electrical storage given the size of the flashlight. In an emergancy you want light shining on the object an hand without having to periodically shake the light. It's really little more than a gadget for xmas. |
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ve3... wrote: Several months ago I reviewed a LED flashlight that used a magnet sliding through a coil to generat electricity. There were posts that stated that some Chinese LED flashlights on the market were fakes using button cells that could not be recharged. The moving slug was just put in to look good. The one I bought from PRO Hardware was legitimate and has worked perfectly for three months with very little charging required. One way to identify a good moving-magnet flashlight is to put it near some paper clips or such. The magnet is so powerful that the clips will jump at the flashlight and stick to the side. The flashlight in question is 7 inches long is made of clear plastic and has a black ring at the front. It is PRO Hardware number 736N5950. I imagine that there are lots of them around and they would make good stocking-stuffers for those of the Kris Kringle persuasion (not that there's anything wrong with that). The two that I tried provided a weak light with limited electrical storage given the size of the flashlight. In an emergancy you want light shining on the object an hand without having to periodically shake the light. It's really little more than a gadget for xmas. Well it depends. An ongoing emergency, obviously you want a constant light since there'll be no other. But "emergency" can mean a blown fuse, and a need for a light to check which one. Or checking something in a dark corner merely because the light isn't good there. The advantage of having a flashlight that doesn't use batteries is that one can just crank it up when needed to get that bit of light. Time will tell whether the current crank or shake lights serve that purpose in the long run. I can remember with incandescent flashlights, how often when I actually needed the light the batteries were dead. Maybe bad shelf life, but I'm beginning to think the switches had too little resistance in the off position, allowing for a constant current drain without enough for the bulb to light. So you'd not notice that the batteries were draining, but the batteries were gone when you needed them. This is amplified by the bulbs themselves not putting out much light with the lower battery voltages. When I got an LED adaptor for my Maglite last year (it just fits in where the bulb used to go), I started off with batteries that had seen use with the incandescent bulb, so they were worn out at least partially. The light kept going, until I realized that "oh, the light has become weak, time to change the batteries". The incandescent bulb would have changed color and put out less light long before that. And of course, the bulbs would break or burn out, and then you'd be stuck with no light. At least LED flashlights aren't going to have the breaking problem, and it will be some time before they burn out. So on some level, the cranks and the shakers may be less necessary with LED flashlights, since they work better with lower voltage. But then, that's why the cranks and the shakers have come along at this time, because the LEDs work better than the incandescent with lower voltage and current. Michael |
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There is always candles for emergency light.And they can be stored
forever too. cuhulin |
LED Flashlight Review
Stumbling around on the internet,I saw this website,
www.flashlightreviews.com I guess some of those magnetic shake and bake flashlights are better than some other magnetic shake and bake flashlights. cuhulin |
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Cuhulin,
Hence that that old time reminder Pre-Flash-Light} aka : hand-torch Shake It -but- Don't Break It ! :o) by the light of the silvery led ~ RHF |
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Brenda Ann wrote:
I find those sizes very hard to believe. Even a one farad capacitor is pretty large and in some cases, larger than an average flashlight. Depends upon the working voltage. I had seen 1 farad caps 20 years ago that were not much larger than a couple of small mercury cells. I'm sure they've gotten them even smaller by now. True. I forgot about the voltage aspect, as I was thinking about the sizes used by the auto sound nuts in their vehicles. A one Farad size in those applications is about the size of a one litre (about a US Quart) container. I can't imagine a hand shaken flashlight would make enough of a voltage to allow a size reduction of any great magnitude.. I'm probably wrong, so please post any more information you may have access to. As for those car stereo lunatics, I think they will all be deaf after a few years. I can hear their bloody bass five cars away. How can the use of headphones by a car driver be illegal when that megawatt idiocy is allowed to continue? mike |
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On Nov 26, 12:06 am, "Brenda Ann" wrote: -- Say no to institutionalized interference. Just say NO to HD/IBOC! "m II" wrote in messagenews:bIbah.9746$Hp3.7156@clgrps13... ve3... wrote: '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' '''''''''''''''''''''''''*'''''''''''''''''''''''' '''''''''''''''''''''' On Sept 10, 2006 wrote, "The button cells are actually "supercaps". They are in the range of 1 to 10 farads." Apparently the "supercaps" hold their charge over a long period of time. I find those sizes very hard to believe. Even a one farad capacitor is pretty large and in some cases, larger than an average flashlight.Depends upon the working voltage. I had seen 1 farad caps 20 years ago that were not much larger than a couple of small mercury cells. I'm sure they've gotten them even smaller by now. BAD, "The existence of a One-Farad Capacitor {Super-Cap} is due to modern materials development and is now useful for general experiments." Size : This Capacitor is only 2.9cm in diameter and 2.5cm high. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farad http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/capacitor2.htm http://www.sargentwelch.com/product....,+One-Farad_E_ Supercapacitors "Super Caps" {It's In There} http://www.findarticles.com/p/articl...09/ai_n9278003 http://www.uoguelph.ca/~antoon/gadgets/caps/caps.html |
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m II wrote:
As for those car stereo lunatics, I think they will all be deaf after a few years. I can hear their bloody bass five cars away. How can the use of headphones by a car driver be illegal when that megawatt idiocy is allowed to continue? mike Well, since you've asked... Many communities have passed ordinances, mostly for noise control, making the use of such car stereo's illegal. The criteria are centered on the distance from the vehicle that the sound is still audible. In Aurora, if a car stereo is audible 50 feet from the vehicle (which would be a little less than 5 cars away), the driver can be cited, and the vehicle impounded. Similar ordinances have been passed in a number of communities in and around Chicago. But that's only the tip of the Fletcher-Munson curve. There has been legislative debate downstate, as well as in communities around the state, about the long term safety concerns, not unlike concerns surrounding headphones, of such high pressure sound levels in cars while driving. Competition grade stereos have resulted in permanent hearing loss from the extreme overpressure produced by huge subwoofers firing into the cab. With the windows closed, the overpressure produced by tight bass notes or kick drums can (and frequently have) rupture ear drums. Where such debate stalls, is that the safety aspects of driving with music playing are centered on the ability to hear emergency vehicles, horns, tire screeches, and oncoming traffic...all sounds with huge midrange components. Such sounds are still audible though high bass content. One "expert" explaining to legislators actually made the argument that a factory radio at high levels is more isolating to ambient sounds than a customized vehicle's twin aftermarket subwoofers. Not unlike (mandatory radio content, here....) trying to hear the Liberty Net through the noise on Saturday nights. If the stereo is on in the other room, and the bass is thumping, you have less trouble hearing your RX-320's output, than you do if the atmospheric noise is high. Why? Because the atmospherics and the LibNet voices are competing for the same spectra, where the ear is most sensitive...the bass is not. Take out the upper end on the atmospheric noise, and intelligibility of voices is increased. Subwoofers in cars are not competing for intelligibility with sirens, horns and the guy in the car behind you accompanying his gesticulations with spontaneously assembled language. And there is another phenomenon at play. The truth is, that inside the car, those subwoofers simply don't seem as loud to the driver, as they do to YOU, sitting outside the car. Bear in mind that the guy in the car 5 vehicles away with his windows open has actually created a kind of two stage bandpass box for his subs...the enclosure in which they're mounted is one, but the vehicle cab space into which they fire, is actually another. And with a window open, when that over pressure spews out, it does so through a crude bass port and becomes a wave front. By the time it reaches you 5 cars away, that wave front is defined, and has subtle directional components. Inside the cab, however, it's merely overpressure that's uniformly impinging on the ears of the driver without directional components. These directional components, though very subtle, and often consciously indistinct are at the very heart of how the mind processes audio for the auditory sense. Humans here in stereo. The mind processes in stereo. Without stereo field information, even highly defined audio becomes indistinct, and can be lost in ambience. This is how you can carry on a conversation in a crowded room. The mind allows focus on a single voice among hundreds through recognition parameters...timbre, tone, resonance as well as patterns of rhythm, and anomaly...and spatial orientation. Using the stereo soundfield, the mind processes the subtle phase differences from a single source, and locates it in space. So, in a crowded room of hundreds of voices, one can identify and follow a single voice by it's sound AND location. Put your finger in one ear, take away that stereo spatiality reference, and see how difficult it can become. This phenomenon, btw, is what's behind the use of stereo detectors in communication receivers. Military and commercial receivers have been doing this for some time, because it makes it much easier for code receivers to copy on crowded bands. Similar success has been realized in SSB and AM modes. Back to the issue, though...in the car, without the spatial references, the mind finds the overpressures of bass to be less objectionable, even less audible, than you do outside the car, with a defined, and spatially locatable wavefront. Literally, it's more irritating for you, because it's more difficult for the mind to ignore. And armed with expert testimony in this, the industry has stalled legislation that would ban high powered stereos in cars, as was done with headphones. If you ever have the opportunity to drive a vehicle equipped with a high watt stereo and big subs, you'll be surprised, at the end of the drive, at how comfortable you are with the level, and how loud it is for the rest of us outside the car. |
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