Energizer Weather Ready Carabiner LED flashligh... don't laugh.

Lynn LeFey · **on:** June 01, 2012, 11:15:28 PM

I purchased an Energizer Weather Ready Carabiner Crank LED flashlight several months ago for about $12 to play around with.

Looks like this...
http://www.amazon.com/Energizer-Weatheready-Carabineer-Crank-Light/dp/B002MFK7BS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1338584965&sr=8-1

I've been running it for about 15 minutes every night. I have dropped it about 4 times, from distances of about 1 to 3 feet.

I know folks are more into high-tech awesome lights here, but I gave this thing a shot, and I have to say, I'm kind of impressed. I wouldn't go into the wilderness staking my life on it alone, but it's proven to be a pretty solid gizmo. It puts off pretty reasonable light. My only concern is the life expectancy of the little plastic crank handle. But, so far, so good, with about 2 minutes per night, for about a total of 2 hours crank time in it so far.

I have a friend whose son has a birthday coming up (will be 10 years old), and is crazy for flashlights. I'm thinking about getting him one of these. It's not so expensive that losing it would be a heartbreak, and seems to take a reasonable amount of being knocked around.

EDIT: Moderators... not sure what happened here. Should have been in the flashlight forum. If I could get some assistance...

powerring · **Reply #1 on:** June 01, 2012, 11:44:17 PM

I picked up one of these lights at
target on clearance and I thinks it's a fine little light for power outages and such.

powerring · **Reply #2 on:** June 02, 2012, 12:12:12 AM

On second look, mine has a solar cell and a crank but it is otherwise very similar. I keep it in the window and it stays charged.

Heinz Doofenshmirtz · **Reply #3 on:** June 27, 2012, 03:04:16 AM

[rummages through drawer or torches... hm, Jet III Pro ST? PA40? SF L2X? Zebralight SC 600w?]

LOL!!! Haw haw!!!

Sorry Lynn... just kidding! (Honest!)

Lynn LeFey · **Reply #4 on:** June 28, 2012, 04:30:27 AM

Hey, feel free to ship any of those this way, if you JUST ...CAN'T... STAND... the idea of me having such low-tech stuff.

I've continued testing this. It seems that light time is about 12 minutes now on 2 minutes of cranking. I'll continue watching for performance degradation.

However, I still intend to pick one up for the 10-year-old I mentioned earlier.

Heinz Doofenshmirtz · **Reply #5 on:** June 28, 2012, 05:26:27 AM

Quote from: Lynn LeFey on June 28, 2012, 04:30:27 AM

Hey, feel free to ship any of those this way, if you JUST ...CAN'T... STAND... the idea of me having such low-tech stuff.

I've continued testing this. It seems that light time is about 12 minutes now on 2 minutes of cranking. I'll continue watching for performance degradation.

However, I still intend to pick one up for the 10-year-old I mentioned earlier.

Just as an FYI, my experience with those kinds of crank lights is that you have to regularly charge them up, especially the cheap ones. They generally have cheap and fairly low capacity batteries, and if they sit for too long without a charge, no amount of cranking them will ever bring them back to life. Try to store it with as full of a charge as you can give it, which will help prevent the tendency of the battery to die while holding a low charge and not being used.

I think there's a crank light out there that has a bigass capacitor in it, instead of a battery, but I don't remember what it's called, or who made it. It would be a better choice for emergency prep and the like since it doesn't have a battery that can go belly up on you while it's in storage.

And I like my torches just fine, thank you! In fact, my ST Pro is still one of the brightest EDC-able lights I have, and it's almost 3 freakin' years old! That's one I'll be hanging on to for a *long* time!

Lynn LeFey · **Reply #6 on:** September 23, 2015, 03:51:18 AM

Necro!

I pulled this flashlight out of my car bag yesterday, and replaced it with a little Ultrafire $3 AA flashlight.

For the same weight, I can store the flashlight and a number of extra AAs, and don't have to spend 2 minutes to get the thing working.

After spending a long time in the car, it now only runs for about twice the duration that it's cranked for, before dropping to half lumen output.

Lesson learned.

Also, I have been ruined by the modern LED lights. Super bright for long long time for cheap in a dinky package.

gregozedobe · **Reply #7 on:** September 23, 2015, 04:12:43 AM

I had several el-cheapo "crank" lights, but all of them eventually developed mechanical problems in the cranking parts, even though I hadn't used them much. I'm not too concerned, it was yet another a demonstration of the old adage: "You get what you pays for" and they were very cheap.

lowtech · **Reply #8 on:** September 23, 2015, 02:45:35 PM

Quote from: Lynn LeFey on September 23, 2015, 03:51:18 AM

Necro!

I pulled this flashlight out of my car bag yesterday, and replaced it with a little Ultrafire $3 AA flashlight.

For the same weight, I can store the flashlight and a number of extra AAs, and don't have to spend 2 minutes to get the thing working.

After spending a long time in the car, it now only runs for about twice the duration that it's cranked for, before dropping to half lumen output.

Lesson learned.

Also, I have been ruined by the modern LED lights. Super bright for long long time for cheap in a dinky package.

Apart from this update on the thread it´s nice seeing you here!
How have you been?

Lynn LeFey · **Reply #9 on:** September 23, 2015, 07:05:35 PM

Pretty good. Sorry for not being around more. It's just my nature to wander away from things, and back, more or less randomly.

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