California
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- Jan 22, 2004
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- An hour north of San Francisco
- Tractor
- Yanmar YM240 Yanmar YM186D
re flashlights, HF's $10 Quantum 588 lumen Tactical Flashlight is excellent. It has 4 AAA's. I like mine.
I bought two similar off Ebay with 3 AAA's, for gifts to my kids. Nearly as good as the HF, both for $10 (but took weeks to arrive from China). Either type is fine for household use - identifying a critter in the back yard, looking into a car's engine bay, driving the tractor home if its lights failed, etc, plenty of light. And they fit in your pocket.
I think anything more powerful is getting into the specialty area - boating, night watchman who needs hours of battery, anything where you need full light 100 ft and beyond.
And HF's $5 LED camp lantern is handy too. Working under the car etc. I used one last week troubleshooting why the free-standing heater at the ranch wouldn't stay lit. (Discovered it has a flue-temp sensor with flaky slide-on terminals). The camp lantern was just right for setting behind the heater and illuminating everything. I have two, didn't need the second one, but it would be like working in a lighted room with both nearby. If you want to illuminate an entire campsite HF has larger versions too.
Looks like its time to put my Coleman 200A (red, single mantle) on Ebay. Hundreds of them sold over $300!!
I bought two similar off Ebay with 3 AAA's, for gifts to my kids. Nearly as good as the HF, both for $10 (but took weeks to arrive from China). Either type is fine for household use - identifying a critter in the back yard, looking into a car's engine bay, driving the tractor home if its lights failed, etc, plenty of light. And they fit in your pocket.
I think anything more powerful is getting into the specialty area - boating, night watchman who needs hours of battery, anything where you need full light 100 ft and beyond.
And HF's $5 LED camp lantern is handy too. Working under the car etc. I used one last week troubleshooting why the free-standing heater at the ranch wouldn't stay lit. (Discovered it has a flue-temp sensor with flaky slide-on terminals). The camp lantern was just right for setting behind the heater and illuminating everything. I have two, didn't need the second one, but it would be like working in a lighted room with both nearby. If you want to illuminate an entire campsite HF has larger versions too.
Looks like its time to put my Coleman 200A (red, single mantle) on Ebay. Hundreds of them sold over $300!!
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