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I love flashlights, or torches for some of our non-USA members.
Although my shop is well lit and all my machine tools and workbenches have lots of work lights I still find I need some additional light for many operations.
Over the last few years I have bought many flashlights and have them scattered throughout the shop and house. There is no room in the house that does not have at least one. Many of them have been dissapointing. LED lights have completely replaced incedesent bulbs and they are far superior. But many of them have been poorly constructed. Switches have failed, battery contacts become intermittent and poor quality or over rated LEDs either fail or start having reduced output.
I bought a couple of Ray-O-Vac 9 LED pocket lights that use 3 AAA cells a couple of years ago and they have performed flawlessly. So when I wanted to upgrade some of my older lights that had deteriorate I wanted to buy more. Unfortunately that model had been discontinued. But I tried one of the Ray-O-Vac lights that use a single high power LED. It gives an extremely bright central spot that is quite well focused with a fairly uniform surrounding halo of light. I liked it so well that I bought two more. There were purchased at Walgreen's drug store for about $10 each. They give about 45 hours of operation on 3 AAA cells.
Highly recommended.
http://rayovac.com/flashlight/sphw3aaa-bx.shtml
Gail in NM,USA
Although my shop is well lit and all my machine tools and workbenches have lots of work lights I still find I need some additional light for many operations.
Over the last few years I have bought many flashlights and have them scattered throughout the shop and house. There is no room in the house that does not have at least one. Many of them have been dissapointing. LED lights have completely replaced incedesent bulbs and they are far superior. But many of them have been poorly constructed. Switches have failed, battery contacts become intermittent and poor quality or over rated LEDs either fail or start having reduced output.
I bought a couple of Ray-O-Vac 9 LED pocket lights that use 3 AAA cells a couple of years ago and they have performed flawlessly. So when I wanted to upgrade some of my older lights that had deteriorate I wanted to buy more. Unfortunately that model had been discontinued. But I tried one of the Ray-O-Vac lights that use a single high power LED. It gives an extremely bright central spot that is quite well focused with a fairly uniform surrounding halo of light. I liked it so well that I bought two more. There were purchased at Walgreen's drug store for about $10 each. They give about 45 hours of operation on 3 AAA cells.
Highly recommended.
http://rayovac.com/flashlight/sphw3aaa-bx.shtml
Gail in NM,USA