Flashlight recommendations?

[Industrial Toys]

Remember when the sheep were buying those huge million candle power quartz lights? lol

I use my Ridgid LED (Tool Group) light as much as anything. Nice to not have to care about dead batteries, just grab a charged pack. It has a spot and flood arrangement. A bit awkward to carry, but nice for setting down and aiming at your work.

 

[Peter 315]

Can anyone comment on replacement LED bulbs for D cell maglite flashlights? Remember when the Krypton bulb was KING?

I have the led replacement bulbs for the Maglite they work good..

 

[Industrial Toys]

For D cell? I have 4 and 2 cell models. True though, They do like to roll around.

 

[Peter 315]

For D cell? I have 4 and 2 cell models. True though, They do like to roll around.

Yes d cell

 

[Peter 315]

For D cell? I have 4 and 2 cell models. True though, They do like to roll around.

I bought them from this guy..........Nite Ize LRB2-7-PR LED Upgrade Bulb For D & C Cell Maglites Bright White LED Ex 9466477 | eBay

 

[Industrial Toys]

Seems the LED thing is a retrofit kit of sorts. Terrible thing about living in Canada. Might as well life in CUBA. Getting stuff accross the iron curtain and all!

 

[RjCorazza]

Seems the LED thing is a retrofit kit of sorts. Terrible thing about living in Canada. Might as well life in CUBA. Getting stuff accross the iron curtain and all!

That goes both ways... I had a very difficult time getting snow blower parts for my Canadian LuckNow blower. Also Kubota front fenders... That are apparently only available to Canadian citizens.

 

[Industrial Toys]

Curious. With the recent changes, does that mean I can just zoom across without stopping or identifiying myself? Maybe sign up for some freebies?

 

[California]

re LED bulbs for four D cell flashlights etc - I got a couple of bulbs on Ebay that explicitly declared they could be used for either polarity and for voltage higher than 6 volts. I assumed in a 6 volt spring-terminal-battery lantern, the low current draw would preserve the battery for many many hours. No. Disaster. I smoked both bulbs instantly.

I then found that this type of battery and the corresponding lantern have the center terminal of the battery, and the bulb socket, negative.

Those LED bulbs weren't multi polarity after all. The Ebay seller wouldn't refund and didn't like my negative feedback, and asked me to take it down. I told him no, his ad still said multi polarity so my feedback would remain, to warn the next customer.

 

[Industrial Toys]

Any LED is polarity sensitive. You could put a bridge rectifier in front of it to make it polarity insensitive but suffer a slight voltage drop which is NOT good news for powering an LED.