Recent content by Cataract
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500 Lumen - AAA Flashlight (photos) - Work In Progress - Part 2
Great point, except the houses I personally watched being built live in my neighborhoods both when I was about 8 years old and, much more recently, when I was 38 had definitely nothing to support them to be able to last over 20-30 years of age. The housing complex I watched being built when I...- Cataract
- Post #3,777
- Forum: Homemade and Modified Flashlights Discussion
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Things I've learned the hard way . . .(Part 2)
I have learned the hard way that falling doesn't have to hurt one bit when you just let yourself fall (and a little help from JUDO classes). The best part is when you get up like a superstar right after people go "I think he's dead!!!" I can't even start telling that story, but what fun it was... -
Words to Live By.
:D Wrote this one in my little sayings book the same night: You are as old as you think, feel and act. (True story): When I was 20, on a beautiful sunny and very comfortable summer day I walked out of the house to got to work and stopped a minute to look up, enjoy the fresh air, the sun and... -
PWM - What is it, How does it work and how to detect it.
A QR code is a 2D barcode (don't mind the fussiness, I used to work in the barcode business). Doesn't matter the type of barcode or what you are aiming at; if the brightest source of light in the focus area of the camera is PWM driven, I suspect it will manifest all over the picture. The one...- Cataract
- Post #260
- Forum: LED Flashlights
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500 Lumen - AAA Flashlight (photos) - Work In Progress - Part 2
I recently watched a documentary on Japanese craftsmanship, more precisely "building without nails". The end point is that going WITH nature rather than going against nature makes for much better builds that last a whole lot longer. Everything is made in a way that takes a lot of time, but the...- Cataract
- Post #3,775
- Forum: Homemade and Modified Flashlights Discussion
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Words to Live By.
Okay, this had me realize one very deep truth: Only ONE person on Earth really has you best interest as a 100% priority. If it ain't you, then no one does. -
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Words to Live By.
I often use the "Quality, speed, cost" pick 2 version of this. I believe this is a form of law used in finance. I remember an article in Discover magazine where the author criticized NASA's new vision of "better, faster, cheaper" as circumventing this basic law and pointed how miserably they... -
PWM - What is it, How does it work and how to detect it.
Glad I can help :) Current Controlled usually means no PWM, but there are exceptions. Nice Cu lights BTW... the Maratac has a slightly beefier look in this pic along with the ringed reflector.- Cataract
- Post #258
- Forum: LED Flashlights
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PWM - What is it, How does it work and how to detect it.
Barcode + PWM... good one! You should have taken a picture with the barcode both horizontal and vertical just for fun :D- Cataract
- Post #257
- Forum: LED Flashlights
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PWM - What is it, How does it work and how to detect it.
Nice Pics and observations jon_slider, exccept one small detail (1) I believe what manufacturers mean by "constant brightness" is that the output of each mode will be the exact same as intended for as long as the battery has enough power to sustain it rather than letting output sag with a...- Cataract
- Post #254
- Forum: LED Flashlights
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PWM - What is it, How does it work and how to detect it.
Thank you sir!- Cataract
- Post #253
- Forum: LED Flashlights
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Has anyone washed there EDC light in the Washing Machine?
The one that keeps surprising me is the Photon Freedom... not nearly waterproof (IPX4 at best), yet it comes out of the dryer in functioning order. Even came out ON, still inside my pant pocket once, else I might have lost it in the clothes basket again the same day. Actually, it happened to...- Cataract
- Post #51
- Forum: General Flashlight Discussion
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Words to Live By.
Here's how I put it several years ago: if you have problems with everyone around you, stop blaming everyone... -
AND THE OFFICIAL THREAD KILLER IS .....
All this talk about killing a thread, replying, closing and re-opening reminds me of all the Start Trek timelines created through time travel... Is that where Sean Connery got his education? I bet it looked a lot less like a prison back then...
