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To: ansel12
“Just moments ago I converted my Schlitz Long Neck bottle flashlight into an LED flashlight.
I used an LED drop-in and D battery adapters for AA Tenergy rechargeables. I am now “prepped” as they say with a truly camouflaged flashlight with a much longer battery life.”

You are innovative - drink 10 more bottles of Schlitz and you can light up your house. You could drink more and make flashlights to give to family for Christmas but you'd better let someone else do the cutting of the Christmas wrap paper.

51 posted on 11/30/2012 9:28:19 PM PST by Marcella (Prepping can save your life today.)
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To: Marcella

Schiltz as a brand is long gone, it went from top of the market to an obscure regional rarity, the flashlight is about 42 years old, my oldest flashlight is about 85 years old.

For people who own old, favorite flashlights, the led drop ins are a great idea.

I converted a Tekna II (a popular 1980s 2-AA dive light)to led, and with rechargeables, it self regulates, with a pretty consistent brightness for at least 30 hours, with who knows how many more hours of usable light, I didn’t want to damage the batteries so I counted 30 hours as sufficent for my personal test.

Since yesterday I have been running a Lightwave 3000 which is a 4 led flashlight from about 2000/2001, old but high quality technology and build for it’s time, with rechargeables, and 22 hours in on the test, it looks good so far, they say that it will produce usable light for 2 weeks with never being turned off.


54 posted on 11/30/2012 9:50:25 PM PST by ansel12 (The only Senate seat GOP pick up was the Palin endorsed Deb Fischer's successful run in Nebraska)
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