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Just stopped by local Home Depot and they have a sale on the 2-C maglight, reg. $14.97, on sale for $9.99 this weekend! Picked up 3 just to have around. Good for spare in the car and stuff. Even make a good stocking stuffer for the kids.
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That's a good deal. Last year they had a 3 D cell Maglight/mini mag set on sale for $9.99. My wife bought 3 sets of them. Two for gifts and she kept a red set for herself. I asked her what she was going to do with the 3 cell. "Use it on you if you keep asking questions." Yes Ma'am!
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Sears has (or had) the bitty Solataire 1 3AAA cell flashlight for $4.99 during Christmas. There put out enough light to walk around, but don't have the power to illuminate 'way out there'.
I think that the LED light bulb flashlights are really hurting the mini flashlight Krypton bulb model sales.
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I agree with the LED lights starting to hurt companies like Maglight. I'm surprised they haven't come out with one yet. I'm also a little disappointed stores like the Home Depot by me don't sell any LED lights. I've got one of the Brinkman LEDs and I like it and I also bought one of the more expensive Surefires for the Bugout-Bag.
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i recently purchased a new light (imagine that ) at a "london drugs" it is a xenon fired lamp and uses lithium cells , at six volts it puts out a lot of light i have to say and am very impressed. it seemed kind of cheap from the name brand , its a "Dorcy" but once i used it i do not care, but it was 40 bucks canadian. cheaper than a streamlight and just as powerful it seems, just not the name brand.
people look at me funny when i say i have no problem paying 20-30 bucks,or more for a decent light. they think a five dollar flashlight is the answer to all. to me a cheap light is a throw-away, if it breaks just dump it and forget it. after all there is no lack of illuminating objects in my house.
imagine how bright a xenon/lithium maglight would be with four cells....ooohhhhhh. i do like the maglight because it makes a nice hammer or defensive weapon or a nice chew toy or some fido that comes sniffing around to close.
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I don't think I'd get anything that uses C cells. D and AA cells always seem to be more economical. I'm trying to standardize on D and AA. Unfortunately most of the LED headlamps seem to use AAA.
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) at a "london drugs" it is a xenon fired lamp and uses lithium cells , at six volts it puts out a lot of light i have to say and am very impressed. it seemed kind of cheap from the name brand , its a "Dorcy" but once i used it i do not care, but it was 40 bucks canadian. cheaper than a streamlight and just as powerful it seems, just not the name brand.
