The only correct answer.
It won’t be Annie Andrews, Roy Cooper, and Hakeem Jefferies, I can tell you that much.
20 million dead soviets might beg to differ.
Still waiting! Yep thanks. Those guidelines will apply to all duel fuel lights.
Right, forgot about that! Yes, turns out he hates this light.
I think you need a green LED for that! But it does help spot him at night.
Owls can’t see 660nm red.* This light is specifically for wildlife observation in a respectful way. “Blasting” them is just a joke because they make fun of my flashlight habbit.
First time out with it in my back yard and I saw bats at dusk. If they noticed being in a red beam, I couldn’t tell.
Treetops are maybe 200 feet away?
It’s not as big as I thought it’d feel. This is it next to a Wurkkos FC11C, since many have that light. However, the holster does make it feel ginormous…in a nerdy good way.
Generally I prefer to buy direct if possible, but I recognize I have more options in the US. Sorry about that!
AliExpress is having its annual Singles Day sale. Anyone snagged a good deal? If you've never used AliExpress before and have always wanted an Acebeam X75, this is the time to do it. Best deals are for new users/email addresses. Also, get the mobile app and figure out the silly Coins stuff for a few extra cents off.
I got this Titanium FWAA for $40 USD because I used a new user discount in addition to 11.11 coupons. That's easy enough to do by creating a new email address. The Alonefire SV43 is recommended by 1lumen in their 2026 UV roundup. I want to cook some UV resin and glow dust instead of using tritium tubes. Plus find weird UV-reflective things in the wild? I dunno, never had a UV light!
Wurkkos FC11C flashlight with Nichia 519A emitter in 4000k color temperature. An exciting color like orange or green! Should be about $20 direct from their site. (Always on "sale").
This will introduce them to the world of high power/beautiful/fun flashlights. If they are inclined, it can be a rabbit hole that leads to modding your own "hosts" with fancy LEDs and custom firmware etc.
No, the lantern modes run cool to the touch. I just put the light in the candy bag to make a strange picture; we didn’t have it inside the bag when we were trick-or-treating.
The potatoes definitely were weird. I figured I was out of the loop on some pop culture reference, but maybe just a neighbor with a weird sense of humor.
Radio is a Tidradio H3 with Signal Stick antenna. Used it on GMRS with my kid on his walkie talkie out and about in the hood.
[Beamshot! That’s it in the middle of the bag. Edit: This is candy collected on Halloween holiday in the US.]
RGB mode for most of the walking around and neighbor chatting. Spotlight for when a car comes or when we need to light up a dark candy bowl. Warm CCT lantern for water breaks, eating from and examing the stash.
RGB mode needs memory lol…maybe that’s a feature, haven’t studied the manual.
Little awkward to cary all night, especially in a costume, but not too bad. The grooves actually made it ‘fidgety.’
Will definitely be taking this one out again next year.
In case someone’s wondering wtf, this is because dairy industry oligarchs are trying to make it illegal to call anything milk that doesn’t come from a cow. That said, I’m not sure why an alternate spelling was chosen here.
The only good use case I’ve come across is looking at house numbers at night without lighting up the whole house. Generally I’m not a “it’s just fun to see far” kind of person.
And yes, I know there are better performing lights that cost less. I was already making a Wurkkos order and it just fell into my cart.
