Check Your Gear

[BigNC]

I change the lithium primaries that are in various devices and backup emergency flashlights and communications gear on my birthday. Cr123, cr2(smoke detectors) and Aa/aaa lithiums. Other stuff uses Eneloops or lithium-ion that gets regularly tested and topped off ( my dog walking and chicken coop checking lights as well as Edc gear that use 16340, 16650 or 18650.)

Rotate non ethanol gas in my Jerry cans. Check the gene and chainsaw on the first of the month. Check my firearm that gets Edc every time.

Maybe obsessive but I hope to never know.

 

[Mike SC Hunter]

You can test it all you want, but that don't mean it will work the next time. I just try to do the best I can with what I have . . .

That's why I have more than one. Several in each vehicle. My hunting truck always has 4-5. Several in the house. You can have too many flashlights/knives or guns.

 

[Kanewpadle]

Why don't you mentioned the brand so we'll at least have it as a data point?

Streamlight. Just remembered that I two Scorpions years ago. The switches quit in less than year. Bad luck? Or?

Who knows. Just bought another Surefire.

 

[rwt1405]

Streamlight. Just remembered that I two Scorpions years ago. The switches quit in less than year. Bad luck? Or?

Who knows. Just bought another Surefire.

Send them back to Streamlight, their Customer Service is excellent, they'll take care of you!

 

[Muss Muggins]

And my original statement still stands. You have no assurance . . .

That's why I have more than one. Several in each vehicle. My hunting truck always has 4-5. Several in the house. You can have too many flashlights/knives or guns.

 

[Kronos]

I've always got a half dozen lights laying around so I'm never short a source of illumination...I even have a couple LED lanterns

I've stopped buying expensive name brands and use off brand or unknowns now my pocket light right now is an Olight raider with a rechargeable 123A,next is a Jetbeam single AA light again stuffed with a Rayovac rechargeable AA cell I got at Wal-Mart.

My most used light that I carry with my pocket light (yea I carry two lights the majority of the time) is a LEDLenser headlamp,that kind of light is the best utility light of any kind.

 

[Lightfoot4]

We had a power outage too. My kerosene lantern fired right up.

 

[mooosie]

You can test it all you want, but that don't mean it will work the next time. I just try to do the best I can with what I have . . .

The problem with that theory is that if you have nothing, that's what you have for emergencies. Nothing