I have a solar powered flashlight, and it's pretty delicious. We leave it in the window of the laundry room, and just get it when the power goes out. It's even got a little police siren noise button on it!
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| Author: | AwPi [ Sun Jun 18, 2006 6:37 pm ] |
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I have a solar powered flashlight, and it's pretty delicious. We leave it in the window of the laundry room, and just get it when the power goes out. It's even got a little police siren noise button on it!
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| Author: | Simon Zeno [ Sun Jun 18, 2006 6:41 pm ] |
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Shopiom wrote: I agree. Solar flashlight are stupid. I mean, just use the battery-powered ones. They're not that different.
Except that you have to buy batteries, eh? |
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| Author: | Shopiom [ Sun Jun 18, 2006 6:45 pm ] |
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Eh. Batteries aren't that expensive. Besides, my house has a buttload of batteries in it. |
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| Author: | StrongRad [ Sun Jun 18, 2006 7:09 pm ] |
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Shopiom wrote: Eh. Batteries aren't that expensive. Besides, my house has a buttload of batteries in it.
True, but what are the odds you'll be able to find enough batteries of the correct type in the darK?? A solar one would be great if you were in some sort of prologned power outage and you didn't have any way to go get more batteries (blizzard, flooding, etc come to mind). I still don't go with the solar ones, though. The crank powered ones are better. Use one of those to find the batteries for you normal one. 
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| Author: | IantheGecko [ Sun Jun 18, 2006 7:29 pm ] |
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What about the shake-em-up ones? Are they really that great? |
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| Author: | Code J [ Sun Jun 18, 2006 7:31 pm ] |
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Or so I have read. :tgs: |
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| Author: | StrongRad [ Sun Jun 18, 2006 7:41 pm ] |
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IantheGecko wrote: What about the shake-em-up ones? Are they really that great?
I've heard people say they love them, but I've never used one. I know the wind-up ones work ok. I keep one of those in the toolbox in my car as a backup for my Mag-Lite. |
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| Author: | AwPi [ Sun Jun 18, 2006 8:04 pm ] |
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StrongRad wrote: I still don't go with the solar ones, though. The crank powered ones are better. Use one of those to find the batteries for you normal one.
Mine has a crank on it, too, just in case the solar power burns out. Those Shake 'em up flashlights look cool, too, but I'd probably end up taking it apart anyway to see how it works. |
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| Author: | Simon Zeno [ Sun Jun 18, 2006 10:05 pm ] |
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AwPi wrote: just in case the solar power burns out.
I think if the Sun burned out we'd have bigger concerns than flashlights. Rofl |
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| Author: | ramrod [ Mon Jun 19, 2006 1:52 am ] |
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IantheGecko wrote: What about the shake-em-up ones? Are they really that great? I've heard some things about them. I kinda want to buy them, just to see if they really work all that well.
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| Author: | Capt. Ido Nos [ Mon Jun 19, 2006 1:54 am ] |
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I've got one of those around somewhere in my basement. It works alrightish, I guess. It's got a funky blue tint to the light for some reason. It's a little bit dimmer than a regular flashlight, but you can still see stuff with it. |
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| Author: | ramrod [ Mon Jun 19, 2006 1:56 am ] |
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Capt. Ido Nos wrote: I've got one of those around somewhere in my basement. It works alrightish, I guess. It's got a funky blue tint to the light for some reason. It's a little bit dimmer than a regular flashlight, but you can still see stuff with it. Pretty much as long as it gets the jorb done, right?
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| Author: | Capt. Ido Nos [ Mon Jun 19, 2006 1:59 am ] |
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ramrod wrote: Capt. Ido Nos wrote: I've got one of those around somewhere in my basement. It works alrightish, I guess. It's got a funky blue tint to the light for some reason. It's a little bit dimmer than a regular flashlight, but you can still see stuff with it. Pretty much as long as it gets the jorb done, right?Yeah, preety much. Actually, it's about the only flashlight where at any given moment we know just where it is. As for the other couple hundred battery-run flashlights, well, who knows. 
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| Author: | ramrod [ Mon Jun 19, 2006 2:04 am ] |
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Capt. Ido Nos wrote: Yeah, preety much. Actually, it's about the only flashlight where at any given moment we know just where it is. As for the other couple hundred battery-run flashlights, well, who knows. :p My family is like that with battery powered flashlights. I swear, they are programmed to just vanish after three months, or the first black-out, which ever comes first.
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| Author: | Jenny [ Mon Jun 19, 2006 8:16 am ] |
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huh. haven't you guys heard of the flashlight gremlins? Step one: gather flashlights! Step three: profit! (just don't ask about step two) |
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| Author: | Jello B. [ Mon Jun 19, 2006 2:31 pm ] |
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Jenny wrote: Step one: gather flashlights!
Step three: profit! (just don't ask about step two) The way it's done on Slashdot is 1. Gather flashlights! 2. ??? 3. Profit! I, for one, welcome our new flashlight overlords. BUT DOES THE FLASHLIGHT RUN LINUX? Imagine a Beowulf cluster! *gets modded +5, informative* |
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| Author: | damik [ Mon Jun 19, 2006 2:33 pm ] |
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Stop saying words. |
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| Author: | ramrod [ Tue Jun 20, 2006 12:56 am ] |
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Don't you love it how one brand of batteries will have dozens of varieties. Just look at some Duracell AA batteries. There's the regular, the ultra, the super strength, the industrial strength, ect. I just want some dang batteries that will make my CD player run. |
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| Author: | Kevin DuBrow [ Tue Jun 20, 2006 6:29 pm ] |
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Someone may or may not have already done this, but I will do it anyway. Splenda Anybody else think that Splenda is an oxy-moron? Just think about it. It's sugar free sugar. That's all I'll say. |
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| Author: | Simon Zeno [ Tue Jun 20, 2006 6:31 pm ] |
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Batteries are the biggest scam ever. |
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| Author: | Ninti [ Tue Jun 20, 2006 7:18 pm ] |
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I hate those art pads that you lift up a layer of plastic to erase the drawing. Kevin Eyebrow is going to hit '1337' posts soon... |
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| Author: | ramrod [ Tue Jun 20, 2006 11:11 pm ] |
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Kevin DuBrow wrote: Splenda Anybody else think that Splenda is an oxy-moron? Just think about it. It's sugar free sugar. That's all I'll say. I'm a thinking about it.....and I'm bleeding out the eyes now.... Now I'm forever going to think of you Kev whenever my Mom uses that stuff.
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| Author: | Chekt [ Tue Jun 20, 2006 11:33 pm ] |
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The obvious and forever evil car commercials |
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| Author: | Didymus [ Tue Jun 20, 2006 11:36 pm ] |
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Come on, you guys! You're not putting your hearts into it! Try one like this: Uncle Didy wrote: And what about Kool-Aid? All that dude ever does is wander around causing massive property damage from all the holes he's constantly knocking in walls, just so he can give sugary drinks to some whiney brats that are too uppity to drink tap water and too lazy to get it themselves. I wonder what he does about all those bricks falling inside that pitcher head of his? Well, they better not end up in MY drink.
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| Author: | ramrod [ Tue Jun 20, 2006 11:41 pm ] |
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the_chekt wrote: The obvious and forever evil car commercials Who doesn't hate them? I swear, I think their goal is to annoy me into submission.
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| Author: | Simon Zeno [ Tue Jun 20, 2006 11:43 pm ] |
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Didymus wrote: Come on, you guys! You're not putting your hearts into it! Try one like this:
Uncle Didy wrote: And what about Kool-Aid? All that dude ever does is wander around causing massive property damage from all the holes he's constantly knocking in walls, just so he can give sugary drinks to some whiney brats that are too uppity to drink tap water and too lazy to get it themselves. I wonder what he does about all those bricks falling inside that pitcher head of his? Well, they better not end up in MY drink. Listen to Dane Cook much? Rofl. |
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| Author: | netzen [ Wed Jun 21, 2006 12:44 am ] |
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Now let me tell you all about SHAKE-EM-UP FLASHLIGHTS The guys that sell these things are crooked man, I mean, you see the one guy like shake it twice and BOOM!! an hours worth of light! Come on, they've probably got a bunch of guys they pulled of the street in a back room shakeing the things for like two hours. I bet they pay em' with food stamps too. Alright thats the best I could do. |
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| Author: | ready for prime time [ Wed Jun 21, 2006 1:45 am ] |
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Shopiom wrote: I agree. Solar flashlight are stupid. I mean, just use the battery-powered ones. They're not that different.
ugh. mine had capacitators, but you had to leave it in perfect sun for 5-6 hours for 30 minutes of light. it did have a dynamo handle, but three turns would be about 2 seconds of light. plus, it was stiff, and made a loud "GHRAUGHTHARAUGHARGH!" when you use it. |
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| Author: | ramrod [ Wed Jun 21, 2006 4:58 am ] |
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ready for prime time wrote: it did have a dynamo handle, but three turns would be about 2 seconds of light. plus, it was stiff, and made a loud "GHRAUGHTHARAUGHARGH!" when you use it. Wow, that definately sounds like a selling point to me. I'll order 5!
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| Author: | ready for prime time [ Wed Jun 21, 2006 5:09 am ] |
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pfft. you can have them for free. in fact, we will give you money with them. |
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