A thread that needs to be kept alive for ZL people to see...
I sorely miss the 120 degree floodies they used to make.
I have an H50W I bought a long time ago, and that simple yet perfectly floody light is the single reason why I, as a former mechanic and still a backyard mechanic on my own stuff, have literally thrown away every single one of my "trouble lights", also known as "drop lights".
I went back to order a spare or two recently and was very disappointed that there are no 120 degree floodies offered anymore. The perfect flood of the H50W with absolutely NO hotspot without using any kind of diffusion was the perfect "drop light" in every situation; under the hood, under the car, under the dash... you get the picture.
For those of you who have never done much work on cars, what you have had to do in the past was to lodge a drop light somewhere near where you want to work, but it was always having to be off to the side somehow.
With the single AA H50W adjusted where the bottom edge of the strap goes right across your eyebrows, it's as if the light is coming directly from your own eyes and you have light anywhere you look, plenty of it, and with virtually no shadows. A 90 degree beam just doesn't cut it when you could have a 120 degree flood of light that fills the entire area you're working on and then some (because good mechanics are always looking everywhere for problems, not just what's directly in front of their eyes).
In my mind, ZL needs to reintroduce the 120 degree, no diffuser, floody, and they should call it a "work light" so that it can take it's permanent place in the ZL headlamp lineup for generations to come. The high level of the H50w being "only" 60 lumens was even perfect for the purpose, a single AA battery for power kept it light and small, and getting more than two hours on a rechargeable battery kept it cheap to run.
In short, the H50W was the perfect drop light for mechanic work.
And then they discontinued it. What the hell were they thinking?
Anyway, enough ranting. I'm off to the Marketplace to try to find a couple of used H50's that people don't appreciate anymore.
