Or LED in spectrum warm.2 AAA Mini Mag incandescent.
Sometime between that and the 2xAA Mag lights, there was some dreadful light which became the defacto standard. Incandescent, strangely shaped, non-user-replaceable battery. I believe it was a Duracell or Energizer brand. Does anyone remember them? I remember they had a picture of a firefighter on the packaging.View attachment 60823
These 2D Eveready Comanders were once the flashlight ushers used. At $1.99 they were standard equipment with the usher vest from the days of yore.
What you're describing sounds exactly like the right-angle, old inca. Garrity Life Lite. It actually was popular with fire-fighters back in the day because it was inexpensive, and if inverted, could be taped two on a fire-fighter's helment. It was also popular in cheesy survival kits from back in the day. Garrity changed the design to an LED, and apparently that version is no longer useful for cutting through smoke.Sometime between that and the 2xAA Mag lights, there was some dreadful light which became the defacto standard. Incandescent, strangely shaped, non-user-replaceable battery. I believe it was a Duracell or Energizer brand. Does anyone remember them? I remember they had a picture of a firefighter on the packaging.
Iirc mine was a Radio Shack one. Battery quits, toss it in the trash.Those lights were pretty decent, the switch was more or less reliable, they were brighter than the typical 2D light and the cost about what you would pay for a pair of D cells. Everyready made them back then and I think someone is still making them under other brand names.
Sometime between that and the 2xAA Mag lights, there was some dreadful light which became the defacto standard. Incandescent, strangely shaped, non-user-replaceable battery. I believe it was a Duracell or Energizer brand. Does anyone remember them? I remember they had a picture of a firefighter on the packaging.
Yeah, the bluer the light, the more Rayleigh scattering you get. I suppose you could drop a yellow filter in front of it to punch through smoke a little better.Garrity changed the design to an LED, and apparently that version is no longer useful for cutting through smoke.
What you're describing sounds exactly like the right-angle, old inca. Garrity Life Lite. It actually was popular with fire-fighters back in the day because it was inexpensive, and if inverted, could be taped two on a fire-fighter's helment.
Surefire E2OMy wife works as a volunteer in a local theater and needs a light that won't bother other patrons or the actors on stage.
The specific requirements:
Small and light, say 2.5 inches long and 2 oz.
Tight beam with minimum of spill - just needs to illuminate one step or a seat at a time.
Simple UI so no accidental strobe or thousand lumen blasts. Thinking a memory - last setting - is the ticket.
Primary output should be around 25 lumens, + or -. Objects to illuminate will be about 8-12 feet away.
Switch should be easy to operate - not worried about accidental turn-on.
Primary cell or rechargeable. If primary then CR123a, single AA, maybe two AAAs. If rechargeable then USB-C would be nice.
Right angle head?? I have a Spark headlight that almost fits the bill but they are no longer made and I would hate to give it up.
I have researched with out success - impossible?
Good luck easily finding one nowadays.Surefire E2O