I've always like flashlights ever since my dad got me on for Christmas when I was a small boy. As I recall it was a cheap affair but the best thing was that it had different colored shades that flipped in front of the lens to change color of the projected beam. I took it to bed that first night and read under the covers with it. The thing was that I must have fallen asleep and left it on for in the morning the batteries were dead.
Things have moved on a bit since those days some 45 years ago and although I still have a fascination for flashlights I tend not to fall asleep reading under the covers with them any more , but if i did I could do far worse than to do it using one of the new Maglite flashlights with an LED 'bulb'. The light output is fantastic and best of all the new models have a 25% setting meaning that the light is reduced to one quarter of full power and in this mode will work for literally days on one set of batteries; probably enough to polish off War and Peace under the bed clothes!
I use mine for surveys and other assorted tasks aboard and although I have used it almost every day for the past year or so it has worked faultlessly apart from the time I thought it was broken and took it apart and rebuilt it only to find that I had put the batteries in back to front ... oops.
Maglites come in a variety of sizes but all are made form aircraft grade aluminum apparently and come with a lifetime warranty but don't drop them over the side of the boat, the warranty won't cover that!
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