tilefan

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I've generally steered away from them because of price, but I do have their Maximus headlamp. I don't remember spending almost $500 on it at the time, but it was pretty steep especially for not having a removable battery

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

how do you change the mode?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

all these super bright LED flashlights you buy on amazon, or at the checkout counter of the hardware store, I just now realized they don't have adjustable focus and I've never needed it with them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

does it have a brand name on it aside from O'Reilly? maybe a part number somewhere in it

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (3 children)

so the solution is installing Linux on the flashlight?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

I don't know how it is with four AAA, but I had an Anker that had the three AAA cassette, where it holds them all side by side. the cassette broke, and when I called asking for a replacement part, they told me they weren't making that anymore so no more parts, but these three cell AAA cassette could be replaced with a single 18650

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I do appreciate you taking the time to look though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

that's what I was looking at. c-cell is kind of annoying, it's the only one that I don't have rechargeables laying around for, 18650 would be more convenient. but, mainly, the lumen output looks awfully low for a flashlight that size

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

oh man, they're still offering incandescent models alongside their LEDs. none of them are really inspiring hope though, even the smaller LED lights seem to have pretty pitiful lumen output compared to what I'm seeing out there

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I haven't looked into maglite since proper LEDs priced them out of the market. I'll take another look

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

see, one of mine is supposed to be almost that easy. you press the button normally to turn the light on and off, and it always remembers the last setting. then, you lightly press the power button to cycle through modes. the problem is, there's no way to press the button hard without also pressing it soft first, so most of the time you're cycling at the same time that you're powering.

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