@shahnm gee giphy, thanks for the reminder.,.

@JvB wouldn’t have paid any more than $11.98 since there are two.

@huntd I got the pro version a few weeks ago. They work great, but you have to look at the answered questions on Amazon to find out how to fully use them. The pack-in instructions didn’t say anything about holding the button down to change brightness and that’s the only way to get max brightness.

@werehatrack Over at the Frankenstein Place…

@shahnm @werehatrack …burning in the fireplace

@werehatrack … In the darkness of everybody’s life.

@drmarble @werehatrack I’ve been given a gift. I now know which exact ear worm will be chewing at my brain until I fall asleep tonight (and ready to get right back at it when I wake up tomorrow)…

@werehatrack et al.
To be more obvioius, JIC.

Besides, I wanted to see it again.
[Also, in tribute to this month’s goat.]

@shahnm (@werehatrack @drmarble)
If you’d prefer a different ear worm, this one is hard for me to banish:

“If I were a rich man,
…”
OK, you take it.

@drmarble @phendrick @shahnm @werehatrack great….now BOTH of these songs will be stuck in my head for the next week!

@drmarble @shahnm @werehatrack

@phendrick NOOOOO!!! LalaLAllllaaaaaa…!

@drmarble @k4evryng @shahnm @werehatrack
Stereo Binaural, simultaneously! Left-brain / right-brain kind of thing. Should be a good mental workout to get good at listening to both sides of an argument, especially during this political season.

@drmarble @phendrick @shahnm @werehatrack If wealth is a curse, let god smite me that I never recover.

@accumulator It worked! Your order number is: terrifying-decayed-trick

/image terrifying decayed trick

@mediocrebot …and thanks for the lovely image,

@accumulator @mediocrebot Looks like there was a headlight malfunction.

@accumulator ORDER CANCELLATION - We regret to inform you that your available funds are only $11.99.

…but i think i forgot to charge it.

@craigthom It worked! Your order number is: nasty-shady-hocus

/image nasty shady hocus

@blaineg It worked! Your order number is: corrupted-decomposing-mystery

/image corrupted decomposing mystery

@mediocrebot
/giphy corrupted-decomposing-mystery

@blaineg I like that giphy. He’s actually got a head light!
I wonder if the order number refers to the elastic?

@Kyeh Makes sense about the elastic.

Looks like the gif is from the game Little Nightmares.

@lichen It worked! Your order number is: mystifying-fun-crown

/image mystifying fun crown

@ckcarlton They use alkalines. They’re okay, but these have internal lithiums. “Which is better?” is a complicated issue, and largely dependent upon circumstances.

@ckcarlton @werehatrack Yes, complicated indeed. The light quality can vary a lot, especially in the cheaper ones. The internal Li-Ion battery is probably better, unless it doesn’t hold a charge. Then you have e-Waste since you can’t replace it (and even if you can, the parts and time to do it wouldn’t justify fixing a $6 light). I like to always have a headlight in the door compartment of my truck, and in a drawer in my camper. Use them quite a bit. And one in my bedroom drawer. So yeah I have lots of them. The truth is the AAA battery ones tend to be pretty reliable, and almost always will work when you need them. A rechargeable sounds better if you do work crawling in basements or something and use them for hours a day, but I don’t. And you can always put good-quality rechargeable AAAs in the battery ones. That’s the main reason I’m probably avoiding this deal – fear of battery not charging at all after a while, or being self-drained when I actually need it. BTW if you really have an “emergency kit” with a headlight, always good to have spare new batteries also packed with it.

@ckcarlton @pmarin @werehatrack Have you found any with reliable headbands? Everyone one I’ve got has lost their elasticity way too soon.

@blaineg @ckcarlton @werehatrack Most of mine still work from various brands. (maybe a bit of tightening). but a few did just give up all hope of being elastic, as you say.

I think it’s hit or miss though I’d think the bargain ones would be worse; that has been my experience. I just looked for headlamp replacement headband and you can buy some, for example the very premium Petzl brand sells headbands — for a higher price than this pair of lights. Of couse those headlamps go for a lot more. One offered true 900lm performance in a lightweight 100gm unit. You’e not going to find that for $6.

@blaineg @ckcarlton @pmarin I have made new headbands from black 3/4" or 1" elastic bought at JoAnn’s. I just recycle the original design and plastic buckle bits. Some use odd widths, and the generic elastic with the nice, soft backing can be next to impossible to find, so the replacements are often not as good, but they work.

@gt0163c Yep. Many considerations.

@sunderbug Actually 300 for a headlamp is pretty good. The cheezy ones that usually sell for a couple of bucks are usually 30-100 max, and often have a creepy bluish light.

Yes, there are high-power ones like 500-1000lm used for adventurers, emergency workers, things like that. Actually delivering that much light (not some made-up inflated spec) still needs a lot of wattage from batteries, and sophisticated cooling for the LEDs. I’m sure HF will sell you a “5000 lumen” one but it’s probably really 150 or something.

@pmarin @sunderbug Worse than HF – sellers on Amazon (and other sites):

@pmarin @sunderbug Actually, HF has contracted a serious case of honesty about their lumens of late, and they pretty much hit the levels that they claim, though even I have to be really skeptical about their claim of 6000 lumens from their currently brightest unit. At some point, somebody will test it. I think I’ll wait for those numbers. I will note that the form factor and battery pack depicted is nominally within the realm of 6000-lumens-capable, but loads of other output claims in that area have tested at anything from 10% down to 4%. I’m prepared for there to be some optimism in the number, and I’d be entirely unsurprised if it measured more like 4500 to 5000, which would be short, but still closer by an order of magnitude than most of the no-recognizable-brand lights on Amazon and the even more ludicrous ones on eBay.

@sunderbug I am a trail runner and 300 lumens is plenty for trail running, where being able to see rocks at high speed is pretty important (running down mountains at full speed…).

@kc5rbq It worked! Your order number is: festered-malignant-mummy

/image festered malignant mummy

@narfcake It worked! Your order number is: austere-shaken-clown

/image austere shaken clown

/giphy austere shaken clown

/giphy austere-shaken-clown

@bezezlo Costco sells recharge batteries as well

@Euniceandrich It worked! Your order number is: masked-agonized-soldier

/image masked agonized soldier

/giphy masked agonized soldier

@mdjst5 I was overthinking it. I figured it out.