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Image of LED flashlight taken with a PackshotCreator photo studio by Creative Tools AB.
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Produktbild av LED-ficklampa tagen med en PackshotCreator fotostudio av Creative Tools AB.
Underneath the streets of Manchester, where Gore brook becomes Platt brook is Gripper. The brook flows through beautifully constructed arched tunnels and into the nearby park.
Occasionally water drips out of small side tunnels and pipes. It's not a long culvert, but is a good one for lighting up and taking some photos. At least I think so.
N.B It is unlikely that the drain was named by Gripper Stebson off Grange Hill.
Surefire E2E Executive Elite palm-sized anodized aluminum flashlight. This thing is a beauty for throwing intense light from a very compact, light, and durable package.
I had an LED flashlight in my computer bag because my power went out. I just stuck it in there when I was bringing my laptop with me to the mall. After the store closed, I had the flashlight and my bunny so I put it on the green setting, set the bunny up in front, and took a picture to make it look like he was glowing like an alien. But Chris kinda got in my shot, oh well.
My spiffy 3V photo batteries and 6V replacement bulbs.
I wasted some time convincing myself there was no way in hell I was getting standard sized AAA in the cramped space available; they're just too long, between the reflector, the threads on the male half, and extra length of the battery holders, past the ends of the batteries (which would have fit by themselves, which is why I was trying that in the first place). So I needed another solution.
I had originally thought to get a small 6V rechargable battery pack and charger, the kind you see in some of the smaller RC toys. Such things do exist, but I was not able to find anything locally. I could have found something online, but a) I hate to wait, and b) I didn't want to buy something unless I could pick up and give it a test fit.
Failing that, I was able to find these batteries intended for use in digital cameras. Nice, but not rechargeable. They had rechargeable battery packs which appeared to consist of a couple of these cells bundled, but those all charged through the camera so I couldn't use them. Eh, oh well.
The charger was the hard part - If you get some odd sized batteries, you really need the matching charger. Or at least I would. Technically, you can get or build a custom charger, but that's way over my head.
But that did leave one problem...
It's a little hard to tell from these pics, but those batteries are about 2/3 the length of a standard AA, and maybe 10% fatter. Since they're an unusual size, I wasn't actually able to get any battery holders to mount them with.
Technically, it would have been possible to solder the wires directly to the batteries, but that's even more permanent hand harder to change out, and the heat's damaging to the batteries. It can shorten their life, and potentially cause it to leak, or build up hydrogen gas, and I've heard some stuff in the news about lithium batteries (which these are) catching fire if overheated.
So not being able to find or buy what I needed, I decided I could modify an existing product to do what I needed. Which foolish notion led to rather a lot of time wasted on various ugly kludges that didn't work, and more down-time after I set it all aside until I came up with a new idea.
The ElectroLumens Blaster: Next Generation is a heavy three D-cell direct-drive flashlight, weighing just over 3 pounds (with NiMH batteries).
32/365 11.28.07
After posting his 365 picture yesterday Pulpito and I checked out a few older posts we'd missed. Gallagher's fun flashlight party really intrigued him and he's been looking for a flashlight ever since! This morning he climbed up on the lamp and called, "Take my picture!! I want to be like Gallagher!
And here you have it, Pulpito has a little fun with light too.
Inova X5 flashlight... I've been carrying this for several years but was bored the other night so it went under the knife. For anyone in the market for a light, I would highly recommend the Inova line, they make excellent products and are damn near indestructible.
Playing with a flashlight and long exposures. Oh, and shoveled all the snow. Holy crap, so much snow.
Here's the whole thing, all assembled, with all the caps in place. YOu can just make out the extra allowances drilled out above and below the switch to make space for the lumps the wires and terminals made.
So that's the project, that's my Thermos (mkI). All that's left is maybe some cosmetic touches, like that logo, maybe some Bondo around the switch and the lip where the butt extension hits the main body just to seal things and smooth things out. Oh, and I never did fix the leaks around the plastic lens. That one I'll want to get to for sure.
...I just need an idea of how...