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    new $250 HID spotlight (*BRIGHT*)

    Yes - havis shields - that's it (for some dumb reason I wanted to say hunter douglass) - who's selling them for 179 (PM me please) - I have a friend who wants one. I can't believe they can make something this well built for such a low price - i seriously would have expected much more - it...
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    new $250 HID spotlight (*BRIGHT*)

    I just bought on ebay a while back a spotlight (it was miscategorized i think in the vehicle safety lights section) - it's actualy made by a vehicle safety light company (HD or something like that) - not much to it - cigarette lighter plug and a push on/off switch) - bulb life 2500 hours, power...
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    Legal flashlight length

    Last night a friend and I were inspecting the dimmer/flasher accessory tailcap for the SL-35X streamlight - he asked if that flashlight was "legal" - concerned over the overall length of the light approaching that of a club, nightstick, or bat. I did a quick search on google tonight for the...
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    White Sodium?

    "white" sodium is really a misnomer - its simply a sodium (HPS) bulb with a reformulated mixture that's part-way to the salts used in metal-halide, but still predominately sodium and interchangable with existing sodium lights when re-lamping a group of fixtures without ballast modifications...
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    Rechargeable Alkalines

    someone correct me if i'm wrong here but I seem to recall that all standard alkaline chemistry batteries worked with the rechargers for "rechargable alkalines" (I never bought into that plan and stuck with the hi-cap nimh) The special "rechargable" alkalines were perhaps better sealed or lacked...
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    Waiting for Carley Lamps

    I've ordered lights and reflectors from carley lamps several times for custom lights (mostly video) - some things you need to remember -- they're selling custom bulbs at a mass production price by grouping your order with larger production orders for guys like SF, etc - so you're getting a low...
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    Streamlight LiteBox - not charging - Help?

    I use 2 lightboxes (both 20W wide spread beams as worklights - one has the power fail auto-on option) - I agree with FC's note - replace the cell 1x/yr due to SLA behavior. Even though after a year the light still seems bright when you take it off the charger - you'll note that it quickly drops...
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    12....count em, 12 5 Watters on the Chrysler Tomahawk!!!

    Around here (Bay Area, CA) - the Fed-Ex trucks are running with LED clusters for the brake and tail lights, as well as turnsignal functioning - the instant on/off is a good giveaway when looking at the flashing, and up close you can see the individual LEDs in the cluster. I'm not sure if these...
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    Want An X990, but where?

    I don't trust ebay auctions one bit. There are way too many scams out there. I just hit on the original auciton listed above and found the user is "no longer registered" - i.e. something went wrong and they got blacklisted. Never had a problem with brightguy.
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    Beast Pics?

    what happened? i haven't been around for a while - decided to check in on the flashlight area before doing my xmas shopping - and figured by now the 'beast' would be on retail shelves [or as close as SF can get to there] -- but the beast is gone - all records of it destroyed - and even...
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    Why I like the DIM flashlights (Sometimes!)!

    More bright isn't always the most useful - true it is nice to have a light that will shine a 1/2 mile to see what's up ahead - there are ample lights out there that will handle this need. My personal favorite for quite a while has been the streamlight lightbox with the 20W bulb (bright) but...
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    Depth tester made from PVC Toliet pipe (WDV pipe)

    I take it all the streetlights will be yellow LEDs - zoning ordinance, right? I think craig's original idea of a tube designed just for checking the "dunkability" of normal (i.e. non-dive) lights was fine - 4" ABS will hold a collumn of water taller than the room it's in - since we're not...
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    What is the brightest non-rechargeable flashlight?

    Oh - and here's another possible entry I forgot - buy a streamlight sl-35 (5 D rechargable) - open it up and dump the recharge pack and insert your choice of lithium D's (caution 3V) or 1.5V alkaline Ds. Now you have a 20W non-rechargable light (the SL-35 holds its own against the M6 - I have...
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    What is the brightest non-rechargeable flashlight?

    For the last time - the maxabeam IS NOT HID - it is a xenon short arc - and flashes just fine, without the warmup issues of HID or bulb life shortening from flashing.
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    What is the brightest non-rechargeable flashlight?

    Since the original question mentioned arctic / polar use - divide the runtimes by 2 even for lithium - at least lithium works at subzero temps, but you pay the penalty in reduced capacity. An M6 and a box of 123's sounds like the best combo given the constraints.
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