Timothybil
Flashlight Enthusiast
I live across the street from my grocery store, where the street is like the line between city center and residential housing. I usually wind up doing my shopping in the evening. During the summer there was no real concern because even later in the evening it was still light out enough to let me be visible. Now that the days are getting shorter, I am more concerned about being visible as I walk home. My normal attire is blue or black jeans, and most of my shirts are dark in color, so I have some concern about being seen as I walk through the parking lot and cross the street. What I have been doing is taking my EDC, a Nitecore EA11, activating the beacon mode, and clipping the light to my shirt pocket. The interval is short enough that there is no way a car can get close without seeing at least one flash, and the flash is bright enough to catch anyone's attention. I first tried using the beacon mode of the red auxiliary LED, but decided it wasn't bright enough, so switched to the main one. So far it has worked, since I am here writing this, so we will see how things carry one. Just a different way of looking at one of the little used modes in most lights.