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    Almost had quite the scare this afternoon

    I have lost my Arc AAA and Gerber Ultra Infinity too... hopefully they are somewhere. They are too damn small, I need to attach a cinder block if/when I find them. I also lost my Columbia Winter Jacket liner... :( Depressing. On another sad note I gave my uncle a Fenix P2D (I think, 2AA...
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    Removing head of Inova T5

    I have an Inova T5 that has died on me yet again and instead of sending it back in for warranty I'd like to take off the head and see if I can't throw in a Cree and new driver. Problem is that the damn thing won't come apart! I have tried strap wrenches, leather scrapes, leather belts, vices...
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    Battery Gassing?

    Noticed that someone replied a wee bit after it all kind of ended. I guess for an update I just decided to do nothing at all about it. Had too much time into it already and wanted to get onto other things. He already had some harness that would let him clip the glotube on top of the dog so it...
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    Need to scare off some vandals

    I have one of these http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.6965 Get that and a few batteries and a charger, it uses 123's or 18650's. I haven't played too much with it, but it is a damn focused beam! Kind of like a light saber. ;) I also have the Power On Board HID which is nice as well...
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    Joule Thief just will not work!

    Eureka! Flashlife was right, without thinking about it I wound the darn thing in opposite directions!!!!!! I stripped another salvaged bead and wound them on in one direction pulling out a center and it worked! A bit dim though, so I pulled in one I was trying to use last night that already had...
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    Joule Thief just will not work!

    Still no scope but I'm going to get it tonight so we'll see then. I have wired it mostly as a center tap going to + battery and then the other two going to the resistor / led IIRC. I tried that funny one last night where they are labeled A1, A2, B1, B2 as he had the inductor AFTER the 1k...
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    Joule Thief just will not work!

    Well I have wound a few coils by folding the wire in half and then looping it 20 or so times like quite a few website suggested. Hmmm... perhaps that's where I'm going wrong? I have wound a few too were I wind a single layer on, pull out the center tap and keep winding but I think I may be...
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    Joule Thief just will not work!

    Hello everyone, it's been a while since I got distracted by life but back into flashlights again. I've been trying to build a little joule thief but it just won't work. Is there some secret I'm missing? I'm just using the basic resistor, inductor, transistor, led circuit, such as...
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    Real World Hard Core 3 week light test with Fenix, Novatac, Surefire, UF - who won?

    :thumbsup: I take it you are retired then, or in some phase of life that you have that kind of luxury. Congrats, I always wanted to be some kind of a hermit. You read stories about people that just up and move and live off the land or don't work and just LIVE... maybe someday I can do that...
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    Real World Hard Core 3 week light test with Fenix, Novatac, Surefire, UF - who won?

    Perhaps I haven't been keeping up on the Review forum but what happened that you were without power for 3 weeks digging through "stuff?":thinking:
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    Streamlight 3C LED Runtime Graph

    Hey, I think in an emergency it would still be useful light. I have a Lightwave 3c that claims something like 700 hours. I really don't buy that, but everyone wants brighter and brighter, not many cater to the low low/long runtime crowd. I like to have a few for emergency use, so I bought a...
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    My Infinity Ultra just died a moment of silence please, now what do I replace it with

    Hey Saiga, I think it was me that suggested that over in the other thread. I personally haven't given it a midnight run since there are too many night lights around here with all the computers and such, but glad that you do like it. I know our eyes are sensitive mostly to green and then blue...
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    PWM Soft-starter design discussion

    You know right from the start of this, and other threads I kind of always was wondering why not use a PIC or AVR (I only have experiance with PIC's, though nothing besides tinkering) instead. You would most likely need a small regulator (or high voltage PIC, I know they make them but no...
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    new infinity ultra M is REAL dim...

    I have both the white and red led version, and the white is plenty bright. I assume the same circuit topology is for the red version, but agree it doesn't seem that bright. I actually took a shower with mine and by the end of the shower it seemed brighter. I can only assume that perhaps if your...
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    Unprotected RCR123s explode in flashlight

    Re: Shooting deer with a flashlight Sorry, I wasn't meant to pick on them, just the only ones so far that I have experiance with. And I do believe you on the fact that everyone makes it up a little bit, just haven't bought that many cells. I have READ that the Eneloops and such are pretty...
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