night.hoodie
Enlightened
I was gonna start a whole new thread, but this one is great. I mean, this thread will serve my purposes, I can sort of pirate the thread, and yet, it's not so far off-topic. Happy New Year, also. This is my first post of the new year. It's all very exciting. Wish me luck.
As far as I can tell, there really is only a finite number of ways to illuminate. Let me cut to the chase, it starts with a stock Executive Elite E2e. That's what you start with, ideally, and then from there you never really stop using that light, though it may no longer be recognizable, nor even any of it's parts still in use (citation: Lincoln's Ax).
I wish it were a myth that Surefire has "discontinued" this model. I really think "discontinued," for one of the newer made-up words, is kind of awkward, but it is hardened for war. Its too bad, LED came, and Surefire finally dismantled everything needed to manufacture the E2e, and scrapped the whole E2e project, and the building where the E2e schematics and plans were burned down April of 2010. Seriously, I think if we as a collective consumer force went to Surefire and ordered 500K E2E-HA with the money, they'd tell us it couldn't be done. But if some slick US military outfit needs 200 of them, they hit a switch and pop out what they need, then mothball it all again. I just made that up, but I believe it to be true. Drives me up a wall that Surefire just one day STOPPED SELLING Elite heads. I think they were selling too well. They were making too much money, so they stopped.
I'm going to get right to the point. If you happen to find for sale, or see laying on someone's passenger seat with the window down, or see standing handsomely alone at some work site, or dig up, inherit, or marry into Surefire and then somehow acquire your first E2E... or the E1E accessory to the E2E.
So if you were already lucky somehow, and for the most part ignoring cell setups and batteries (which cannot be done), if you get really extra lucky, you may find a one of the best, if not the best, but certainly one of the rarest and hardest to find lamps, the MN03. It's a decent lamp. The white is a little angry, which is irrelevant, it does what it does, namely, shooting a beam of light straight out where you point it, and does it well. Since MN03 are so hard to find, we are blessed with Mark at Lumens Factory that actually makes and sells these lamps that fit right into E2E, and they are profoundly different from MN03. Focused LF lamps are nuts, idk what to say about them. There are times the spill is completely overcome by how tight and shockingly bright and how far the spot stretches. They should not call it a spot, they should call it a lightsaber. But I guess that would get confusing, and people could get injured. If you want a pocket spotlight, go for LF lamps. Also, it is told sometimes flashlighting can be less tense, more relaxed and easy going, and Tad Customs lamps spill and flood perfectly rationally like only they can, and find the hedged optimum between runtime and output.
As I post this, this morning, this year, my E2e looks like a ... fivemega 18350 with a Keeppower UH1835P running a A6010 lamp in a Tad Custom's socket. But it's only because of the time of the post. Hours from now, my E2e will look and illuminate differently. The body change for cell necessity, lens may change to convex, the lamp may switch to FM1794, or Tad's A7212, or HO-E2A, or EO-E2R.
The possibilities are not endless. But there is enough of them that the lighting can be just right. You really must discover all the different light levels yourself, but you really don't want the brightest incandescent light possible, you want an E2E. Mostly I find most of my required and most comfortable light is "3V" and that is a surprise. Because E2E is "6V"
As far as I can tell, there really is only a finite number of ways to illuminate. Let me cut to the chase, it starts with a stock Executive Elite E2e. That's what you start with, ideally, and then from there you never really stop using that light, though it may no longer be recognizable, nor even any of it's parts still in use (citation: Lincoln's Ax).
I wish it were a myth that Surefire has "discontinued" this model. I really think "discontinued," for one of the newer made-up words, is kind of awkward, but it is hardened for war. Its too bad, LED came, and Surefire finally dismantled everything needed to manufacture the E2e, and scrapped the whole E2e project, and the building where the E2e schematics and plans were burned down April of 2010. Seriously, I think if we as a collective consumer force went to Surefire and ordered 500K E2E-HA with the money, they'd tell us it couldn't be done. But if some slick US military outfit needs 200 of them, they hit a switch and pop out what they need, then mothball it all again. I just made that up, but I believe it to be true. Drives me up a wall that Surefire just one day STOPPED SELLING Elite heads. I think they were selling too well. They were making too much money, so they stopped.
I'm going to get right to the point. If you happen to find for sale, or see laying on someone's passenger seat with the window down, or see standing handsomely alone at some work site, or dig up, inherit, or marry into Surefire and then somehow acquire your first E2E... or the E1E accessory to the E2E.
So if you were already lucky somehow, and for the most part ignoring cell setups and batteries (which cannot be done), if you get really extra lucky, you may find a one of the best, if not the best, but certainly one of the rarest and hardest to find lamps, the MN03. It's a decent lamp. The white is a little angry, which is irrelevant, it does what it does, namely, shooting a beam of light straight out where you point it, and does it well. Since MN03 are so hard to find, we are blessed with Mark at Lumens Factory that actually makes and sells these lamps that fit right into E2E, and they are profoundly different from MN03. Focused LF lamps are nuts, idk what to say about them. There are times the spill is completely overcome by how tight and shockingly bright and how far the spot stretches. They should not call it a spot, they should call it a lightsaber. But I guess that would get confusing, and people could get injured. If you want a pocket spotlight, go for LF lamps. Also, it is told sometimes flashlighting can be less tense, more relaxed and easy going, and Tad Customs lamps spill and flood perfectly rationally like only they can, and find the hedged optimum between runtime and output.
As I post this, this morning, this year, my E2e looks like a ... fivemega 18350 with a Keeppower UH1835P running a A6010 lamp in a Tad Custom's socket. But it's only because of the time of the post. Hours from now, my E2e will look and illuminate differently. The body change for cell necessity, lens may change to convex, the lamp may switch to FM1794, or Tad's A7212, or HO-E2A, or EO-E2R.
The possibilities are not endless. But there is enough of them that the lighting can be just right. You really must discover all the different light levels yourself, but you really don't want the brightest incandescent light possible, you want an E2E. Mostly I find most of my required and most comfortable light is "3V" and that is a surprise. Because E2E is "6V"
