This morning I got to thinking about flashlights, my favorite thing you know and just how powerful the most powerful one is being made today.  So went my search.  The web is such an incredible source of stuff…some useful…some not.

Well, in my quest I just might have found THE most powerful flashlight made to date.  This little baby won’t run long on a full charge, but it does do some incredible things while it is running and it just might save your life one day.

I found out that a typical automobile headlight runs at about 1400 lumens of light.  That seems like quite a bit to me.  I also found out that the most powerful “headlamp” made in the world is kicking out 3,000 lumens….that baby would give you whiplash just turning it on.  Over twice the light of a normal car.  Why on earth would you want something that bright?  Talk about turn the night into day.

Of course as time goes on research is finding smaller, better ways of doing things and flashlight making will be no different.  Thanks to  space age technology we have many, many, many things that would not have been possible even just a short 10 years ago.

So, what did Bears Butt find this time?  A flashlight that kicks out 4100 lumens!  Can you imagine that?  On full blast the batteries in this flashlight only last about 15 minutes AND it creates a lot of heat while on full like that.  So the makers of it had to put in a special heat resistant glass lens and of course the body of the flashlight has to dissipate the heat while still being safe for the user to operate it.

They tout in their advertisement that you can cook eggs with it!  Imagine that.  So you go hiking with a pan and a flashlight that’s all you need.  Heck who needs a pan, just break the egg on a rock and shine your light on it…if the light will cook an egg it surely would kill any bacteria that might also be harbored on the rock right?

The flashlight comes with a whole lot of warnings about not doing things with the light that might hurt someone and from what I just saw, you would not want this thing in the wrong persons hand.

So, even though I would like to have a bigger and better flashlight I think for safety I am going to have to limit myself to a smaller “gun” than is currently the biggest and badest out there.  Sort of on the same line as buying a self protection pistol in say 45 acp, rather than a 50 cal fmj.

So, check out this video of the flashlight they call “The Torch”…it will light up your world…in more ways than one.

http://www.thegreenhead.com/2009/12/wicked-lasers-torch-flashlight.php

Bears Butt

Dec. 16, 2012