lumen aeternum
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This probably applies to other brands of light as well.
For the past couple weeks I've been trying to dry out my garage after the first torrential rain got in.
Hampered by raining every couple days since.
So tonight when I saw my gutter overflowing, I had to go up on the roof to clear it.
I had the light (Fenix E25UE, with a single 14xxx size battery, so about 8" long) secured around my wrist with the lanyard, so I could let it dangle when I needed that hand.
And at some point when I was holding the light, it went out.
My gloved hand had grasped it in such a way that I was pressing on the switch, and it turned off.
Since 1 is none, I had a QuiqLite lapel light turned on as well, so I could still see in front of me.
I've noted before that the switch on this light cannot easilty be felt by the thumb, especially when wearing gloves. So it was imperative to use a second light at the same time.
It has a dual switch; it occurs to me that some such switches could accidentally activate strobe -- which could have startled and disoriented me and resulted in falling off the roof. So "work lights" should not have strobe, SOS, etc functions.
For the past couple weeks I've been trying to dry out my garage after the first torrential rain got in.
Hampered by raining every couple days since.
So tonight when I saw my gutter overflowing, I had to go up on the roof to clear it.
I had the light (Fenix E25UE, with a single 14xxx size battery, so about 8" long) secured around my wrist with the lanyard, so I could let it dangle when I needed that hand.
And at some point when I was holding the light, it went out.
My gloved hand had grasped it in such a way that I was pressing on the switch, and it turned off.
Since 1 is none, I had a QuiqLite lapel light turned on as well, so I could still see in front of me.
I've noted before that the switch on this light cannot easilty be felt by the thumb, especially when wearing gloves. So it was imperative to use a second light at the same time.
It has a dual switch; it occurs to me that some such switches could accidentally activate strobe -- which could have startled and disoriented me and resulted in falling off the roof. So "work lights" should not have strobe, SOS, etc functions.