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    The New Coast HP450 1400 Lumenns on 6xAA! It's a Coast Thread!

    I just picked up one of these from the Domicile Despot, it’s not a bad pickup at $24.95. It seems like an XH-P 50.2 to me, from comparing it to the XH-P 70 in my Convoy L6. On first-gen Eneloops at full power, it does start heating up fairly quick (so the sinking is there), and my eyeballing of...
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    $8 even bad ones aint bad flashlight

    I have the 1300 lumen Energizer. I did not know about the hold-and-rebalance trick, so I tried it, and it works on this light too. Even better: it works in high and low mode, and it can go the whole way if you hold it long enough - it starts dimming the two smooth emitters in favor of the...
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    Has Your "Taste" In Lights Changed With Time

    Interesting to think about. I've been here since 2002 off and on, lurking since before that even. I remember when nearly everybody was dissing the "sickly yellow" of incandescent lighting, and playing the tint lottery in search of that pure white light. Then along came neutral and then warm...
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    X65vn100 100,000 Lumen Light

    Re: X65vn2870 100,000 Lumen Light No "FWOOOOOSH" though. :)
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    X65vn100 100,000 Lumen Light

    Re: X65vn2870 100,000 Lumen Light "open up". I've never seen "melted" spelled with that many "p"'s before. 100k lumens? that's got to be around 800 watts. If there were optics you'd be dissipating about 40 watts in optical losses ALONE. I'm waiting for the day when you just say *&ck it and...
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    Los Angeles CPF get-together?

    I was in an LA area CPF gathering in March 2007, it was organized by LowBat. We got together at the park just east of Griffith Park, where the old zoo is. BVH brought out one of his AN-VSS tank lights on a trailer, someone had the new HID lights from Amondotech, and I *think* PK showed up...
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    leds that imitate clear incandescent

    A few questions: Does "warm yellow" mean the standard look of incandescents, a.k.a. 2700k? IF so, there are plenty of options readily available. However, your application being more decorative, perhaps even warmer might be up your alley. As well as 2700k, there are candelabra-based 2200k...
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    RC40vn40 - 40,000 Lumen ;-)

    That thing is as bright as TEN CARS -- the ones that run ALL FOUR lamps when high beams are on. How close are you to that highway? If it doesn't go "FWOOSH" when you turn it on I'll be disappointed.
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    Noctigon Meteor M43

    As I understand it, the M43 is 4 parallel cells into 4 groups of 3 LED's in series. That means a boost driver from ~4V to around ~9-10V Vf, and boost circuits get less efficient the bigger the boost is, vs. buck circuits. The TM06 looks like 4 parallel cells into 3 parallel XM-L2 emitters...
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    Night driving without any lights?

    It's because of all the idiots in Los Angeles driving around with their high beams on. The law of conservation of headlights means that for every car here with too many lights on, a car elsewhere in the country must go without.
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    Dramatic e-cig explosion in New York

    This one has video from multiple angles, and really makes clear how much kaboom there can be in lithium ion cells. http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Man-burns-hand-leg-ecigarette-explodes-pants-NYC-grand-central-station--402686205.html You can see that the unit blew into pieces right off -...
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    LED Burn-In

    I'd swear the 6000K GE LED streetlights they installed in Vegas around 2011 in Sun City have shifted from blue-white to a greener tone. Now that I'm in LA and visit occasionally, I notice the difference. The 4000k units in the same area seem unchanged. Of course, Vegas is an extreme for...
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    Alternative to Costco brand?

    Feit just buys from Chinese OEM's and rebrands. Every supplier switch rolls the dice anew. If they get a good one, they are a good buy up until some little changes in the design means it's time to reevaluate. Since they aim at the low end of the market, they are more likely to get a bad one...
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    Brightest Pocketable Flashlight! - Review

    What's the 0-to-scalded time on max?
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    Gearbest

    42 years? Must have been some crime.:devil: I wish I could escape Kali, but circumstances will have me here for the foreseeable future. I just picked up an L6 from Gearbest. Came quickly enough, but was a bit confusing. First I get a message from DHL saying it would arrive on Wednesday, but...
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