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Offline tango3065

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shake lights
« on: September 25, 2006, 03:29:43 PM »
I have been doing a lot of research on shake and crank lights and have come to the conclusion that my cheap Dynamo crank light is not the best and that the NightStar and the Freeplay are the best, I just ordered a Nightstar CS. I think the Nightstar lights are better than the Freeplay because the Freeplay actually have a internal battery and can't take the heat and cold of being stored in a vehicle daily without running into problems with reliability with a internal batttery. The Reason I went with the CS over the original Nightstar is the use of a rotating switch for longivety. If anyone here has a Nightstar with new Starcore technology(2.5 times the brightness of the original) let me know what you think of it.

Also here is the one I ordered with a in depth review of it.

http://www.flashlightreviews.com/re...ightstar_cs.htm

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Re: shake lights
« Reply #1 on: September 28, 2006, 02:31:49 PM »
Anyone have one of the nightstar lights with the new starcore LED?

Is it as tough as nightstar claims?

Is it pretty bright with the new starcore LED?

Also for anyone who hasn't heard of these here is a link, and I ordered the CS model which is the compact version but has the same brightness, I am wanting some owners opinions.

http://www.appliedinnotech.com/
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Re: shake lights
« Reply #2 on: October 18, 2006, 04:10:04 AM »
I've looked at a few of the shake lights and wasn't impressed with them at all.

I did buy an LED kit from Wally-World for my mini-Mag light for a little over 5 bucks and am very pleased with the results, it's very bright and puts out a light kind of like a florescent light does. It has 3 LED bulbs and with the two AA batteries installed, I could turn it on and leave it burning for a month before the batteries ran down.
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Re: shake lights
« Reply #3 on: May 09, 2007, 09:15:15 AM »
I 've had a few shake lights and think they are a good idea but are not quite perfected yet. They just aren't quite bright enough.
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Re: shake lights
« Reply #4 on: May 27, 2007, 04:33:18 AM »
You asked about shake lights. The shake up flashlights aren't brite enough for me but, I can see to get to my deer stand and the batteries are never dead or the bulb burned out? They're good if you don't have anything else. And they are cheap.
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