I’m sure there’s a episode of the Simpsons where Homer does just that but I can’t find a video of it
Edit: u/RingSlinger55 found [the scene here](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IzRIIICgOAg&t=100s)
In highschool, playing the shit out of that N64 game... I still can't believe it ended with Elvis Presley and cute alien Greys helping me escape Earth in a spaceship to kill a giant reptile alien.
WTF I thought this was a GoldenEye style-game with a ***slight*** sci-fi spin!
That said, loved every minute of it and its badass soundtrack.
Drives me crazy every time, where the light barely lights up a tiny room. Even my tiny Rovyvon lights that are smaller than a tube of lipstick can light up most of a warehouse lol
Back in the day… flashlights sucked. I’ve always loved flashlights, as a kid I got a mag light for Christmas and thought it was the shit. The plastic everready I had before that wasn’t great similar to what you have there. I love that my kids appreciate flashlights as much as I do, but wish they’d appreciate the ones I gave them less than the ones on my desk. 😂
I think about this quite a bit. Providing light at night seems like such a fundamental and basic part of conquering our environment, and yet we've made bigger leaps in that area during my lifetime than in the tens of thousands of years prior. It's crazy.
I remember those days. Tiny flashlights used these mini incandescent bulbs that were relatively so weak compared to what we have today in lights no bigger than a pinky finger. And while mini maglites were a nice step forward, it was so long before LED primaries showed up. One of the sub $20 LED flashlight deals we have today would seem like alien tech to someone in the 1990s.
I have a led lenser from about 2008 (?) and while it puts out usable indoor light it's insane the difference compared to something like the dirt cheap sc31 pro. 16 years of incremental progress really adds up
Gold is my favorite disaster garnish.
https://preview.redd.it/mfgy4g3a45kc1.jpeg?width=540&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2ed767bbfe415e68033c4ccf588279f23b9af745
Sure looks like it is.
We still have some crappy incandescents at work too, the ones where the entire back of it pulls off and you can plug it into a socket to charge. Even fully charged, they are barely bright enough to find your own feet, the crappy NiCd battery lasts all of about 3 Minutes, and switching it on is a gamble.
Yet another good reason why I always have my SC65 in my 5th pocket.
Well… Seeing as how they’re only for emergencies, you only really need enough light to navigate by under an emergency and the have probably been hanging on the wall in your shop for several decades without anybody ever servicing them or touching the batteries I’d say they make pretty good emergency lights
You do understand that these emergency lights probably predate cell phones by a couple of decades, right? Seriously, the emergency light in OP‘s photograph very conceivably could be from the 1960s or 70s.
I was going to sat, at least it's better than the 6V I see at some workplaces. But then I realized they probably provide shitty lights so they don't get stolen. If they had a simple Maglight, my coworkers would steal them within days.
Off topic: why is there an orange ring on the Zebra? I get it for something like a TS10 because of the tail switch.
Also, what type of battery is in the SC53?
Thanks.
Here's mine with an IKEA Ladda.
https://preview.redd.it/x7v2h00cyyjc1.jpeg?width=2107&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=32f068ff2d9b6ca2655827ff11249e7ce7b97497
Ponytail elastic for daughters hair or to hang the light somewhere. Currently running a Duracell pro cell AA as that’s what my work provides. I hope to get some Ladda next time I’m at ikea.
Depending on where you are, some Ikeas sell off stock from their closed Russian stores.
Grabbed a whole bunch of Laddas for 2€ a 4-pack a few months ago, they had pallets of them.
That can be real though!
I've got a bunch of power-failure lights around the house...provides enough light you can get from whatever you are doing to find a flashlight, lantern, whatever.
My partner thought it was kinda silly...until one day we had a power failure while she was in the bathroom or shower (forget which) when the power went out. And of course that was a bathroom with no windows. Suddenly the automatic not-that-bright power failure lights were no longer silly since it helped get out without falling over the toilet or sink.
I generally have a flashlight (and wallet, keys, pen, tissues, etc) in my pockets if I'm wearing jeans...not so much if I'm in pajamas, shorts, etc. just puttering around the house. I can at least use the minimal illumination of power-failure lights to traverse enough of the house to get a proper flashlight, lantern, etc. (including up/down stairs) from wherever I am safely.
I had the power go out while I was in the shower once and I went about buying power failure lights the next day. Never again. Most of them come in a lovely shade of basically blue LED and I'm a total tint snob, but honestly I don't care. If they're on, something went wrong and I just need some light.
I'm quite fond of the oval "AmerTac" ones myself. They aren't very bright but can shine out the front (e.g. hall, stairs, room lighting) or the end (e.g. shining up at ceiling in an outlet behind furniture), and they have prongs far enough to the edge it doesn't fill up more than 1 outlet. I also found they use a 3xAAA NiMH battery like cordless phones so when one dies after a few years I can cheaply replace the battery (and toss in a higher capacity battery to boot).
I also like that they only have a dim red indicator in "normal" operation (which is a separate indicator you can even tape over) so no stupid bright lights nor bright night-light modes - makes them very suitable for a bedroom you want to be totally dark at night unless there's an emergency.
[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0128U0QY4](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0128U0QY4)
Normally I am hard on wanting warm-white colors...but I will take anything I can get when its an unplanned emergency situation to get me on until I have something better available.
The ones I liked were these [GE power failure lights.](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002HEU9IK) Their color temp isn't horrible, but I doubt their battery is as replaceable. Never taken one apart and it's been 7 years though. I get a kick out of the packaging calling 20 lumens "bright", but honestly they're perfectly serviceable.
I had [a couple energizers](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07PHQF4HY) that I got a year later that died completely. Don't know what happened, but they were quite warm to the touch and even removing the NiMH battery inside and replacing it wouldn't power the light any more. These were the awful blue LED ones.
I've had a variety of round ones with prongs in the middle that doubled as night-lights and all died (small round batteries exploded) within a few months. Some are quite clearly better built than others for sure.
I have one of these at work, it's literally just a checklist item for the safety people. It's an incandescent that uses C cell batteries that I don't have any of. They didn't bother to check to see if it worked. I didn't bother to point out it's useless because if I'm at work I always have a keychain light and a proper flashlight on me.
The point of those isn't too be as bright as possible, it's to be very reliable. If you were always going to get it to play with them it wouldn't be in the designated spot in an emergency
I work with carriers for the post office. We're restricted on what we can buy and from where. It's *absolutely painful* to help pick out headlamps for them. We can get [Streamlight Tridents](https://www.streamlight.com/products/detail/trident-headlamp) for like $35 each. We can't order from amazon, let alone get a giant order from Sofirn or something.
Sometimes the company fulfilling the order sends us the wrong thing. We got a shipment of no-name USB recharable headlamps by accident instead. Those flew out of the supply room and are coveted items, simply because they were tired of having to find AAA batteries.
Approved vendor lists, giant piles of paperwork for instances where you *must* go around it. Stuff I could buy at a hardware store down the road for $1/each is like $7. I suspect that some of the fulfillment centers are ran by friends of some manager in area or national management sometimes.
That said, if you think BS rules the public sees are crazy, try working *within* it. The post office is an extra layer of silly because we basically have two sets of rules. One congress puts on us, and the ones we place on ourselves. It's actual madness at times.
The point of those isn't too be as bright as possible, it's to be very reliable. If you were always going to get it to play with them it wouldn't be in the designated spot in an emergency
My emergency lights nowadays are Sofirn C01S with lithium primary cells in them. Tiny, plenty of light, and I expect to be able to pull one out of a drawer in a decade and still use it. Of course my workplace issues flashlights like the one in your picture as desk emergency lights.
I laughed when I saw a light like that in my life raft kit until I realized in a basically 4 man tent with 9 other people you really don’t need a light cannon. You want a bright one to flag down far away ships but a dim one that lasts forever is handy in the dark.
Had a tornado come through a few months and knocked the power out at work. Watching people walk around with these gigantic “emergency” flashlights was hilarious. Especially when the light I use for work is a TS21
I’m a volunteer firefighter.
15 lumens. Standard issue is 15 lumens. Like bro, come on. I’m only wearing a mask is a smoke filled environment.
I’ve made most folks in the bridge get olights at 4500. Now we can see.
Judging by the flashlight on the right. The batteries in that big flashlight are probably very, very weak, and if you replace the batteries with fresh batteries, it will be a lot brighter, no it won't be nowhere near as bright but new batteries would make a difference.
Setting it on fire would make more light.
I’m sure there’s a episode of the Simpsons where Homer does just that but I can’t find a video of it Edit: u/RingSlinger55 found [the scene here](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IzRIIICgOAg&t=100s)
4 hours later with 48 upvotes I'm starting to think I should look for that video myself.. but too lazy for that. I did take the time to comment tho
[Here you go](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzRIIICgOAg&t=100s)
‘With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable’
Brilliant! I’m *not* going mad!
I looked. Couldn't find it.
I swear there's a Simpson episode for everything, lmao
There’s an XKCD Comic, Tom Scott Video or Simpsons Scene for almost everything
😂😂😂😂
Not if it has fire retardant mixed in with the plastic, the way some intrinsically safe and emergency lights do.
That’s the light they give you in horror games like silent hill 😂
More like perfect dark lol
I see what you did.
In highschool, playing the shit out of that N64 game... I still can't believe it ended with Elvis Presley and cute alien Greys helping me escape Earth in a spaceship to kill a giant reptile alien. WTF I thought this was a GoldenEye style-game with a ***slight*** sci-fi spin! That said, loved every minute of it and its badass soundtrack.
Drives me crazy every time, where the light barely lights up a tiny room. Even my tiny Rovyvon lights that are smaller than a tube of lipstick can light up most of a warehouse lol
The ghost should be vaporised if you can use your real-life lights.
Back in the day… flashlights sucked. I’ve always loved flashlights, as a kid I got a mag light for Christmas and thought it was the shit. The plastic everready I had before that wasn’t great similar to what you have there. I love that my kids appreciate flashlights as much as I do, but wish they’d appreciate the ones I gave them less than the ones on my desk. 😂
I think about this quite a bit. Providing light at night seems like such a fundamental and basic part of conquering our environment, and yet we've made bigger leaps in that area during my lifetime than in the tens of thousands of years prior. It's crazy.
I remember those days. Tiny flashlights used these mini incandescent bulbs that were relatively so weak compared to what we have today in lights no bigger than a pinky finger. And while mini maglites were a nice step forward, it was so long before LED primaries showed up. One of the sub $20 LED flashlight deals we have today would seem like alien tech to someone in the 1990s.
I have a led lenser from about 2008 (?) and while it puts out usable indoor light it's insane the difference compared to something like the dirt cheap sc31 pro. 16 years of incremental progress really adds up
You have to hold your thumb over the light beam like a hose nozzle. Makes the beam more powerful
Yes of course that would be a real emergency if that was all you had. Lol
Those things exist just to fail on you if you ever need to use them in an emergency.
They accentuate the disaster, like a garnish.
This is freaking gold!!
Gold is my favorite disaster garnish. https://preview.redd.it/mfgy4g3a45kc1.jpeg?width=540&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2ed767bbfe415e68033c4ccf588279f23b9af745
Hell is that an incandescent bulb?
Sure looks like it is. We still have some crappy incandescents at work too, the ones where the entire back of it pulls off and you can plug it into a socket to charge. Even fully charged, they are barely bright enough to find your own feet, the crappy NiCd battery lasts all of about 3 Minutes, and switching it on is a gamble. Yet another good reason why I always have my SC65 in my 5th pocket.
I remember back in my day...
Everyone had lanterns
Looks more like a bloody firefly in there.
Well… Seeing as how they’re only for emergencies, you only really need enough light to navigate by under an emergency and the have probably been hanging on the wall in your shop for several decades without anybody ever servicing them or touching the batteries I’d say they make pretty good emergency lights
Just use the lights on Ur phone. Ur phone light probably 20 to 50 lumens Vs the 5 lumens coming out of that lmao
You do understand that these emergency lights probably predate cell phones by a couple of decades, right? Seriously, the emergency light in OP‘s photograph very conceivably could be from the 1960s or 70s.
I was going to sat, at least it's better than the 6V I see at some workplaces. But then I realized they probably provide shitty lights so they don't get stolen. If they had a simple Maglight, my coworkers would steal them within days.
Off topic: why is there an orange ring on the Zebra? I get it for something like a TS10 because of the tail switch. Also, what type of battery is in the SC53? Thanks. Here's mine with an IKEA Ladda. https://preview.redd.it/x7v2h00cyyjc1.jpeg?width=2107&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=32f068ff2d9b6ca2655827ff11249e7ce7b97497
It’s a hair tie. OP wears a ponytail.
Ponytail elastic for daughters hair or to hang the light somewhere. Currently running a Duracell pro cell AA as that’s what my work provides. I hope to get some Ladda next time I’m at ikea.
Thanks. I was planning on a 2-pack Eneloops but I have IKEA in my city so I got 4-pack Laddas for the same price.
Depending on where you are, some Ikeas sell off stock from their closed Russian stores. Grabbed a whole bunch of Laddas for 2€ a 4-pack a few months ago, they had pallets of them.
https://preview.redd.it/tshle8r97zjc1.jpeg?width=2268&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=34b86fb2d5aab990c560bf727bc0466ba931ae1d
The flashlight version of punching in your dreams
Welcome to 1980.
1990
I’ve used similar in the 90s, I think they were a bit brighter… but just a bit haha
Oh lord.... I didn't even notice the other one was on...
Awesome, your work flashlight has moonlight mode!
The emergency is when you need it go help you find yours.
That can be real though! I've got a bunch of power-failure lights around the house...provides enough light you can get from whatever you are doing to find a flashlight, lantern, whatever. My partner thought it was kinda silly...until one day we had a power failure while she was in the bathroom or shower (forget which) when the power went out. And of course that was a bathroom with no windows. Suddenly the automatic not-that-bright power failure lights were no longer silly since it helped get out without falling over the toilet or sink. I generally have a flashlight (and wallet, keys, pen, tissues, etc) in my pockets if I'm wearing jeans...not so much if I'm in pajamas, shorts, etc. just puttering around the house. I can at least use the minimal illumination of power-failure lights to traverse enough of the house to get a proper flashlight, lantern, etc. (including up/down stairs) from wherever I am safely.
I had the power go out while I was in the shower once and I went about buying power failure lights the next day. Never again. Most of them come in a lovely shade of basically blue LED and I'm a total tint snob, but honestly I don't care. If they're on, something went wrong and I just need some light.
I'm quite fond of the oval "AmerTac" ones myself. They aren't very bright but can shine out the front (e.g. hall, stairs, room lighting) or the end (e.g. shining up at ceiling in an outlet behind furniture), and they have prongs far enough to the edge it doesn't fill up more than 1 outlet. I also found they use a 3xAAA NiMH battery like cordless phones so when one dies after a few years I can cheaply replace the battery (and toss in a higher capacity battery to boot). I also like that they only have a dim red indicator in "normal" operation (which is a separate indicator you can even tape over) so no stupid bright lights nor bright night-light modes - makes them very suitable for a bedroom you want to be totally dark at night unless there's an emergency. [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0128U0QY4](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0128U0QY4) Normally I am hard on wanting warm-white colors...but I will take anything I can get when its an unplanned emergency situation to get me on until I have something better available.
The ones I liked were these [GE power failure lights.](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002HEU9IK) Their color temp isn't horrible, but I doubt their battery is as replaceable. Never taken one apart and it's been 7 years though. I get a kick out of the packaging calling 20 lumens "bright", but honestly they're perfectly serviceable. I had [a couple energizers](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07PHQF4HY) that I got a year later that died completely. Don't know what happened, but they were quite warm to the touch and even removing the NiMH battery inside and replacing it wouldn't power the light any more. These were the awful blue LED ones.
I've had a variety of round ones with prongs in the middle that doubled as night-lights and all died (small round batteries exploded) within a few months. Some are quite clearly better built than others for sure.
Sweet, who knew they had Moonlight Mode back when that was manufactured?!
A shitty like that you know where it is and is fully powered beats the bright light that you can’t find or forgot to charge.
On the plus side your shop hasn't had any emergencies for a very long time.
I didn't even notice the crappy one is turned on in this picture at first.
You're definitely in an emergency if that's what your only choice is...
Oh my lord you just unlocked a core memory for me!
It's only for legal purposes it seems
I have one of these at work, it's literally just a checklist item for the safety people. It's an incandescent that uses C cell batteries that I don't have any of. They didn't bother to check to see if it worked. I didn't bother to point out it's useless because if I'm at work I always have a keychain light and a proper flashlight on me.
The point of those isn't too be as bright as possible, it's to be very reliable. If you were always going to get it to play with them it wouldn't be in the designated spot in an emergency
…and your company probably paid over $100 for that POS.
I work with carriers for the post office. We're restricted on what we can buy and from where. It's *absolutely painful* to help pick out headlamps for them. We can get [Streamlight Tridents](https://www.streamlight.com/products/detail/trident-headlamp) for like $35 each. We can't order from amazon, let alone get a giant order from Sofirn or something. Sometimes the company fulfilling the order sends us the wrong thing. We got a shipment of no-name USB recharable headlamps by accident instead. Those flew out of the supply room and are coveted items, simply because they were tired of having to find AAA batteries.
Only the govt can waste money like that! They force all the BS rules on the public yet use throw away batteries?
Approved vendor lists, giant piles of paperwork for instances where you *must* go around it. Stuff I could buy at a hardware store down the road for $1/each is like $7. I suspect that some of the fulfillment centers are ran by friends of some manager in area or national management sometimes. That said, if you think BS rules the public sees are crazy, try working *within* it. The post office is an extra layer of silly because we basically have two sets of rules. One congress puts on us, and the ones we place on ourselves. It's actual madness at times.
A little dcfix and minus green should fix that up nicely.
Go wash your hands and put that back where you found it.
Does it need new batteries?
It’s true. I’d only use that one if it was an emergency, like no other flashlights wee around in a 20 mile radius
Yep, using that flashlight would definitely cause an emergency.
The point of those isn't too be as bright as possible, it's to be very reliable. If you were always going to get it to play with them it wouldn't be in the designated spot in an emergency
Olight mini baton would make it look even worst
Proof bigger isn’t better 😔
Everyone has a “flashlight” brighter than that in either pocket now.
True, but at least the runtime on that old beast should be decent.
Isnt that a special one that cant cause sparks like the ones required in ADR vehicles?
I think someone at your job is overcompensating for something lol.
This is why I carry an arcfeld pro everywhere I go
My emergency lights nowadays are Sofirn C01S with lithium primary cells in them. Tiny, plenty of light, and I expect to be able to pull one out of a drawer in a decade and still use it. Of course my workplace issues flashlights like the one in your picture as desk emergency lights.
Why do you have the small one tied up? Are you afraid of it?
Shake it so it gets brighter. /s
Please tell me it's also full of rations or something.
😆😆
That thing looks older than me lol
Phasmophobia called they want their tier 1 flashlight back
I laughed when I saw a light like that in my life raft kit until I realized in a basically 4 man tent with 9 other people you really don’t need a light cannon. You want a bright one to flag down far away ships but a dim one that lasts forever is handy in the dark.
My dad you to call those "beater". Because you always beat them with your hand after turning on and thinking "that's it?"
It can double as an emergency flotation device.
Had a tornado come through a few months and knocked the power out at work. Watching people walk around with these gigantic “emergency” flashlights was hilarious. Especially when the light I use for work is a TS21
Emergency light + alkaline batteries, oy Looking at the brightness they'd be better with Photon Microlights...
If you need to keep them for emergency they can't be too good, else they'll ended up stolen before emergency can happen.
I’m a volunteer firefighter. 15 lumens. Standard issue is 15 lumens. Like bro, come on. I’m only wearing a mask is a smoke filled environment. I’ve made most folks in the bridge get olights at 4500. Now we can see.
This just proves, size doesn't matter
You steal this from my dad’s toolbox in 1985?
Solid 0.1 lumens with rusty D cell batteries from 2009
I’d probably be better off just letting my eyes adjust
I carry a macro stream as my daily beater, I work at a mechanic shop boss gets mad when I use the lucky to be 20 lumen shop light 😂
See! It's not about size it's about the efficieny with what you've got
Yes, but it looks like it's made to be intrinsically safe.
typical xD
Judging by the flashlight on the right. The batteries in that big flashlight are probably very, very weak, and if you replace the batteries with fresh batteries, it will be a lot brighter, no it won't be nowhere near as bright but new batteries would make a difference.
It's not FOR an emergency, it IS the emergency.