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Super Bright LED Torch €4.77 Delivered

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,923 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Got it this morning.Certainly bright and is made of metal,so worth the purchase price I suppose.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,082 ✭✭✭cfeeneyinterior


    Got it, not bad at all. I seems to have some kind of sos capability. When you turn it on it comes on regular, then of you half press the button it turns to strobe, then again and if my Morse code translation is correct is flashes "SOS"

    Thanks OP


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,575 ✭✭✭AlanS181824


    I got the two I bought yesterday morning.

    They're very very bright.

    I think it'd be useful even for children at Halloween.

    I have it just in case my electricity goes which it usually does at this time of year!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71 ✭✭U2Flyboy


    I bought one of these from T Mart recently can't remember the price e6 approx.Great light can be heavy on battery use.Better to get the optional 18650 Li ion battery and charger for it.I'd say 3 AAA A Batteries would only last 20 to 30 mins on full power.Correct me if I'm wrong! It gets warm in use as it's quite powerful. Great light though!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 557 ✭✭✭Joe Doe


    U2Flyboy wrote: »
    I'd say 3 AAA A Batteries would only last 20 to 30 mins on full power.Correct me if I'm wrong! It gets warm in use as it's quite powerful. Great light though!

    My single {2700 rechargeable} AA 5w led torch (better than messing around with x3 aaa's in a barrel) will run a full month on almost daily short occasional use.

    One advantage of LED is the low power, so 3/5w cree chips about the same as a kitchen radio on low/standby settings, and no complicated transformers, nor circuit boards to power.

    The 7/10w versions can be a bit more power hungry though and can be some heat related issues with them. Had a 20w pure led floodlight but it burnt itself out after using for just couple of months, so they don't like getting hot.

    Imagine once led's replace the street lights of the planet, it will shave maybe 10% circa of the earth's electric bill. The chap that discovered them picked up a Nobel prize recently.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,260 ✭✭✭Rucking_Fetard


    Joe Doe wrote: »
    The chap that discovered them picked up a Nobel prize recently.
    No he didn't, they passed him over, he's not impressed about it either.

    Nobel Prizes are gone to f*ck now, getting worse every year.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 557 ✭✭✭Joe Doe


    Ah so it went to other group who focused on the 'bluer' led spectrum. Low-energy blue LEDs are used to create a more efficient white-light lightbulb. Prefer regular blue to the warmer glow but read blue can interfere with melatonin signals if used at night.

    4/5 of the earth's electric consumption is for lighting usage apparently, struth.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,323 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    Joe Doe wrote: »
    4/5 of the earth's electric consumption is for lighting usage apparently, struth.
    Nah, its only about 20% in the US and it will be less elsewhere, nowhere near 4/5.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,895 ✭✭✭Cape Clear


    Ordered on the 23rd September no sign yet


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 241 ✭✭the_pod


    That's nothing with these guys - wait a month, forget about it and then one day you'll get a surprise in the post


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,575 ✭✭✭AlanS181824


    the_pod wrote: »
    That's nothing with these guys - wait a month, forget about it and then one day you'll get a surprise in the post

    Yeah!

    "Sign here please", what did I order?

    .....

    Oh yeeeeeeah!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,934 ✭✭✭Dotcomdolly


    Got mine today, as with prev purcahse had forgotten about it :)
    What batteries does it take?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,923 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Got mine today, as with prev purcahse had forgotten about it :)
    What batteries does it take?

    AAA's.
    I have another order from them that was dispatched three weeks ago apparently.Must be using Rickshaws or something.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 237 ✭✭AstraOwner


    Got mine today, as with prev purcahse had forgotten about it :)
    What batteries does it take?

    AAA's as mentioned by kneemos but it will be a good bit brighter with an 18650 battery.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 241 ✭✭the_pod


    Got mine today (it arrived in the post yesterday but collected this morning).
    Incredible value for a fiver, thanks again OP


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 41,603 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gumbo


    the_pod wrote: »
    Got mine today (it arrived in the post yesterday but collected this morning).
    Incredible value for a fiver, thanks again OP

    Do you mind posting what date it was shipped on. Might give others a rough time frame on delivery.

    Mine shipped 26th September but nothing yet.

    Thanks


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 589 ✭✭✭BofaDeezNuhtz


    Nobel Prizes are gone to f*ck now, getting worse every year.

    Zero respect for it since they gave Obombya it ffs :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,895 ✭✭✭Cape Clear


    Package arrived today no paperwork and only 1 torch despite ordering 2. Any one have the same problem


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 937 ✭✭✭jousting with chairs


    Still haven't got mine.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,325 ✭✭✭✭Dozen Wicked Words


    Still haven't got mine.

    Nor me.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,675 ✭✭✭jay0109


    Nor me.

    same as that...and paid for it a month ago


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 41,603 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gumbo


    Still haven't got mine.
    Nor me.
    jay0109 wrote: »
    same as that...and paid for it a month ago

    Me neither. Paid and shipped on 26th September.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,228 ✭✭✭JabbaTheHut


    kceire wrote: »
    Me neither. Paid and shipped on 26th September.

    Best to forget about it, and one day it'll come along as a lovely surprise. The last couple of things I ordered from Tmart took 6 weeks to arrive. In fact, I've just checked now, and stuff I ordered on September 16th still haven't arrived.

    Don't worry, it'll arrive, but don't go checking the mail for it every day hoping to see it


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 410 ✭✭rogieop


    Anybody know how to zoom in and out on the bloody thing?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,923 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    rogieop wrote: »
    Anybody know how to zoom in and out on the bloody thing?

    The top moves up and down.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,323 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    Great torch tbh, twice as big as I expected and ultra bright, looks exactly like those €50-80 ones you see in display cases in fishing and hunting shops, thanks OP.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,786 ✭✭✭pissed


    Still have not received mine.:(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 937 ✭✭✭jousting with chairs


    Me either but the postage is very slow from China atm.
    This week I received a battery charger that I had ordered in early September and refunded by the seller a few weeks ago so chances are that it will come ............eventually.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,675 ✭✭✭jay0109


    Mine arrived Friday.
    Good torch


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  • Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 6,531 Mod ✭✭✭✭sharkman


    pissed wrote: »
    Still have not received mine.:(


    Same here :(:(:(


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