Battery-less flashlight

Yea I have one in my truck.. you shake it and there's a magnet inside (I guess) and it generates electricity. It works great.. mines a solid blue so it doesn't blind me.. and the light is bright as all hell and 5 or 6 shakes lasts a good 20-30 minutes.

 

Those are cool. I wouldn't mind having one for emergencies. For general day-to-day use though I prefer something battery-powered that puts out more light, such as another LED light - the Streamlight ProPolymer 4AA Luxeon. Anything with a Luxeon LED is preferred. Lotsa light.

brad cook

 

yeah, my dad got one fore xmas too. They work really well and are blindingly bright! a good invention for sure!

 

I gave my husband, my son and his girlfriend each a wind up flashlight for Christmas. We in South Florida need every gadget we can find to get through the hurricane season. The flashlight is very bright and has tow levels of brightness to save the wind up effort.

 

I stood in this store that sells those things for like 5 mins. Trying to figure out why a normal flash light would be in a store called "As seen on TV" I'm looking at this thing asking my friends "Why is this in here?" they saying that they had no idea. So I turn it on and I say "Oh it because it has a blue tint light. thats the stupidest thing I have ever seen" So I put it back and finished my Christmas shopping.

2 weeks later I see it on tv. Now I realize it had no batteries. Goes to show you how realy blond I can be.........

 

My wife's parents got me two of them, then my wife's grandmother got us all one.
Amazing...it's the year of the light.

They're alright, but the beam seems a little weak to me. I'm a backpacker though, so I'm used to the multiple LED units.

 

Anyone wanting a brighter LED flashlight is better off going with one that has a 1 watt or better Luxeon LEDs. IMO, this is a better alternative than the lights with a cluster of normal LEDs. The amount of light the luxeons put out is way more. A regular LED seems bright until you get it outside or around ambient light and the beam disappears.

brad cook

 

Yeah, I got one of those a couple years back when I went camping...it worked well and helped alot when finding the facilities at the campsite. shake shake shake and I was off. Bargain for 3 bucks a pop.

 

Blast from the past eh.

 

There's an idea for an active bass.

 

they are next to the snuggies.

 

right? but I like the notion of having to put in the effort to make it work...a very "green" product. I imagine each piece is recyclable, and otherwise poses little impact environmentally, no?

Sorry, apparently late night posting makes me sound like a dirty tree huggin hippie.

 

I might just grab one some day. Or make one, while I'm at it.

I like to make stuff.

 

I have one of the wind-up ones and it's about the best thing to have around for emergencies because you never have to worry about whether the batteries leaked or whether it was plugged in recently enough, etc.

However I'd bet almost anything the poster that dug up this zombie thread was in fact a spammer, spamming his web store link on forums. Bad.

 

Hi.

^Spammers suck.

As for the wind-up, shaked, pressed etc. flashlights I'm sure that there's some quality products out there, but all the ones I've seen reminds me of this:

Q:How do You recognize a Zippo lighter user?























A:They smell like gasoline and are asking for a light.

POS says I.

Regards
Sam

 

I've got one of the rechargable ones that you wind up, holds a charge for ages after you wind it if you dont use it that much.

 

You know how you power those up, right? You shake it like Alec Baldwin shook the Wii controller in the SNL skit this year.......