{"id":9423,"date":"2011-05-19T09:51:16","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T13:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=9423"},"modified":"2011-05-19T09:51:16","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T13:51:16","slug":"making-light-are-led-flashlights-now-tacticool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/05\/19\/making-light-are-led-flashlights-now-tacticool\/","title":{"rendered":"Making light: are LED flashlights now &#8220;tacticool&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thetruthaboutguns.com\/2011\/05\/chris-dumm\/gear-review-cree-tactical-led-flashlight\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Dumm<\/a> has a bit of fun reviewing an LED flashlight:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Remember back when Mag-lite was the last word in aircraft-grade aluminum illumination? Those old incandescent Mag-Lites weren\u2019t any brighter than ordinary flashlights, but their indestructible machined-aluminum bodies made them the choice of police, private security, Elvis and burglars. They were \u201ctacticool\u201d before people had a chance to learn to hate that word. The longer D-cell Mag-lites resembled aluminum billy clubs; they delivered a more devastating blow than any Monadnock PR-24 police baton ever could. Despite their size and weight, however, they still weren\u2019t all that <em>bright<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Then new technology arrived in the form of noble gas (Xenon bulbs) and heavy metal (Lithium batteries). SureFire and Streamlight built flashlights bright enough to temporarily blind and disorient a target <em>without<\/em> having to bash his brains in with five D-cell batteries wrapped in an aluminum Little League bat. <em>And<\/em> they were tough enough to drown, drop and attach to the hardest-kicking riot shotguns in the SWAT unit\u2019s arsenal without fizzling out at the worst possible moment.<\/p>\n<p>The new flashlights were rugged, dazzlingly bright and incredibly compact. Their only drawbacks: astronomical prices (for lights, bulbs, and batteries) and battery run-times of one hour or less. They quickly became the law enforcement standard, until LED technology took the lead and never looked back.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Dumm has a bit of fun reviewing an LED flashlight: Remember back when Mag-lite was the last word in aircraft-grade aluminum illumination? Those old incandescent Mag-Lites weren\u2019t any brighter than ordinary flashlights, but their indestructible machined-aluminum bodies made them the choice of police, private security, Elvis and burglars. They were \u201ctacticool\u201d before people had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,15],"tags":[86,471,98],"class_list":["post-9423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-randomness","category-technology","tag-criticism","tag-nonlethalweapons","tag-police"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2rZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9424,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9423\/revisions\/9424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}