Aye Up,
The escapades of those with CREE torches in a recent post by Bishop prompted me to post this.
A few years back I bought about half a dozen of the below ex military surplus torches for about 50p each as they 'had a fault' and weren't working correctly.
They are some kind of fairly mechanically tough poly carbonate in my favourite colour - olive green; have a three colour option - white red and green; are light weight and come easily to hand. They take x2 AA batteries.
There is a twist on/off switch at the base and a left/right for the filter(s)
The switch is slotted for lanyard attachment.
In addition to the fitted filament bulb there were two spares stowed in a little compartment inside the filter head.
The easily remedied fault turned out to be a slight mis-connection of spring copper contacts in the switch base.
I used them with the filament bulbs for quite a while before one day, as I had a few to experiment with, I decided to see if I could mod one to LED.
A bit of careful cutting down (of the original bulb slot) and then experimentation to find (buy) a bright white LED that would work with the AAs and not be too big to obstruct the rotating filter and Bingoland! a nice, cheap, durable, multicolour LED torch.
Its not a light sabre but its good as a local work light or showing motorists where you are if needed.
Did I mention it's in my favourite colour - olive green?
The escapades of those with CREE torches in a recent post by Bishop prompted me to post this.
A few years back I bought about half a dozen of the below ex military surplus torches for about 50p each as they 'had a fault' and weren't working correctly.
They are some kind of fairly mechanically tough poly carbonate in my favourite colour - olive green; have a three colour option - white red and green; are light weight and come easily to hand. They take x2 AA batteries.
There is a twist on/off switch at the base and a left/right for the filter(s)
The switch is slotted for lanyard attachment.
In addition to the fitted filament bulb there were two spares stowed in a little compartment inside the filter head.
The easily remedied fault turned out to be a slight mis-connection of spring copper contacts in the switch base.
I used them with the filament bulbs for quite a while before one day, as I had a few to experiment with, I decided to see if I could mod one to LED.
A bit of careful cutting down (of the original bulb slot) and then experimentation to find (buy) a bright white LED that would work with the AAs and not be too big to obstruct the rotating filter and Bingoland! a nice, cheap, durable, multicolour LED torch.
Its not a light sabre but its good as a local work light or showing motorists where you are if needed.
Did I mention it's in my favourite colour - olive green?
