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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.
his was my first idea for fixing up the base of the thermos. Both halves are threaded, to allow later access for changing batteries and stuff. It would require quite a bit of sanding and shaping to blend that lumpy shape to match the rest of the thermos. And I'd want to level that convex dome a bit, so the thermos can be stood up-right on it's base.
Unfortunately, I took these just after I found out that I managed to damage the threads on those PVC caps and I can't get them back apart now (well, non-destructively, anyway). Back to the drawing board.
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.
Best Small Flashlight
-ADVANTAGE FX-1500 Flashlight is one of the Brightest Rechargeable Flashlights available in the market today. The perfect gift for the Holiday season!
lit with blue gelled strobe inside triggered manually, yellow gelled flashlight underneath, natural flashlight on open door and natural flashlight inside the bumper.
From night photo/ light painting workshop with Troy Paiva and Joe Refier, April 2010.
Found this little guy taking a stroll on the bathroom floor.
Grabbed my Sigma 105mm f2.8 Three Bicycle lights (green/red/purple)
and two flashlights, 6 blue LED as main light from top-left & a older flashlight from bottom-right
This little Wolf-Spider tried to leave the set many times and with a big rush, but I managed to keep it there just for 5-7 shots... few were blurry but oh well. Sadly he left without signing the model-release form.
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.
GENTOS PATORIO8 (ジェントス パトリオ8 GP-8)
この商品の難点。フックのスイベル部分がケース裏面に干渉して垂直に吊り下げられない。結局、私は縫製を解いてフックを取り外し使用している。その状態でもベルトループは使用できる。蓋はベルクロ（フックアンドループ）留め。
Playing with a flashlight and long exposures. Oh, and shoveled all the snow. Holy crap, so much snow.
Devlin has been going through a fire fighter stage. On occasion, he uses my frog mask as his oxygen mask. The frog mask is from Chuck's Exposure show back in August 2006, where masks were the apparel du jour. As you can see, it doesn't fit either of us very well.
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...
experimenting with lighting for a future photo shoot.
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