[Texascavers] New LED flashlight
Lowe's Hardware just got a new flashlight in. Kobalt #0079129 I will not be able to test it for a while, but it looks like the best flashlight I have seen in my life. $ 70 500 lumens on high. Has a low setting which is what you would normally use. Has fancy lens arrangement with 3 LED's. Light-weight enough to take on a caving trip to a big cave. Hopefully there will be one at next caver's auction. David Locklear Sent on the Sprint® Now Network from my BlackBerry®
[Texascavers] New LED flashlight
Lowe's Hardware just got a new flashlight in. Kobalt #0079129 I will not be able to test it for a while, but it looks like the best flashlight I have seen in my life. $ 70 500 lumens on high. Has a low setting which is what you would normally use. Has fancy lens arrangement with 3 LED's. Light-weight enough to take on a caving trip to a big cave. Hopefully there will be one at next caver's auction. David Locklear Sent on the Sprint® Now Network from my BlackBerry®
[Texascavers] New LED flashlight
Lowe's Hardware just got a new flashlight in. Kobalt #0079129 I will not be able to test it for a while, but it looks like the best flashlight I have seen in my life. $ 70 500 lumens on high. Has a low setting which is what you would normally use. Has fancy lens arrangement with 3 LED's. Light-weight enough to take on a caving trip to a big cave. Hopefully there will be one at next caver's auction. David Locklear Sent on the Sprint® Now Network from my BlackBerry®
[Texascavers] new LED flashlight at REI
REI has the newest Inova flashlight. It uses a 4.6 watt K2 LED.Other than that its design is identical to the previous Luxeon 3 watt. It does have a rubber handle, and the other Inova's don't. It cost $ 46 plus tax. It lacks a dimmer setting. You could probably mount it to the side of your helmet, but it may be too big and heavy for that. For some reason, none of the latest bright LED flashlights are using collators or diffusers.Apparently, this is because they use up some of the light and bounce it backwards where it is not recovered. For caving, wouldn't you rather have a smooth spread out beam, than a little bit brighter light?Or why not both?Why not a dual-LED flashlight, with a head kind of like the Stenlight, but with 1 LED light diffused and collated and the other wide open? David Locklear - Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com
[Texascavers] New LED Flashlight
Inova has a new 4 watt LED flashlight that is sold at the Gander Mountain store.The light is called the T4 http://www.flashlightsunlimited.com/images/Inova/T4.jpg What is really cool about this light is it has a lithium-ion battery pack. The price was around $ 110, which includes the re-charger. It appears to be a well constructed flashlight. It puts out 100 lumens for 2 hours, so with 3 of these in your pack and a spare battery pack, you could stay under ground in a huge cave for at least 8 hours. Is that enough light to do video? The light is slightly too big to mount on the side of the helmet, and too heavy to be mounted that way. This light requires a special battery pack, so you would have to carry some extras, which would be expensive. David Locklear ___ Texascavers mailing list Texascavers@texascavers.com http://mail.texascavers.com/mailman/listinfo/texascavers_texascavers.com
