{"id":2472,"date":"2010-11-29T01:18:27","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T07:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davintosh.com\/?p=2472"},"modified":"2010-11-29T01:18:27","modified_gmt":"2010-11-29T07:18:27","slug":"a-nocturnal-work-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/2010\/11\/29\/a-nocturnal-work-aid\/geek\/","title":{"rendered":"A Nocturnal Work Aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.energizer.com\/products\/flashlights\/outdoor-lights\/Pages\/batteries-lantern-headlamp.aspx\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.davintosh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/1_watt_headlamp-400x400.jpg?resize=400%2C400\" alt=\"\" title=\"1_watt_headlamp\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2473\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I picked one of these headlamps up on sale at Lowe&#8217;s yesterday for $12 &mdash; it was the last of a Black Friday special on the shelf &mdash; and it&#8217;s already earned its keep, although my neighbors must think I&#8217;ve lost some marbles&#8230; Tonight Bryce &amp; I spent the last hour of the day (11 to midnight!) hanging Christmas lights on the outside of the house (before the weather turns sour tomorrow) and yesterday I used it to finish up the front end rebuild under the 735i; finished that one up about 10 pm. <\/p>\n<p>These headlamps are just a huge help in working on a car, and so much better than the old-fashioned trouble light. Wearing it on my forehead, it puts the light right where it needs to be without a light fixture getting in the way, as is the case with a trouble light. I turn my head, the light goes with it so I can see what I&#8217;m looking at. I haven&#8217;t used it during the day, but it would even being a huge help then; if I&#8217;m under a car it seems the light is never good, and this thing will do the same trick then. <\/p>\n<p>My new headlamp has three lighting modes, <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bright 1-watt LED spot; ~ 45 lumens, 11 hour run time<\/li>\n<li>2 bright Nichia LED\u2019s flood; ~ 28 lumens, 50 hour run time<\/li>\n<li>2 bright red night vision LED and 75 hour run time<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>About the only thing I don&#8217;t like about it is the switch; it&#8217;s a push-button switch on the top of the lamp. One click turns on the 1-watt LED, second click turns on the red LEDs, third click turns on the flood light, and the fourth turns it off. The switch is also a bit difficult to click, which may be a defect of some sort with my particular unit. But the don&#8217;t-likes are pretty minor issues; all in all it&#8217;s a great little tool. <\/p>\n<p>I do think I&#8217;ll put some day-glow orange or pink paint on it though so it doesn&#8217;t get lost like my last headlamp did.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I picked one of these headlamps up on sale at Lowe&#8217;s yesterday for $12 &mdash; it was the last of a Black Friday special on the shelf &mdash; and it&#8217;s already earned its keep, although my neighbors must think I&#8217;ve lost some marbles&#8230; Tonight Bryce &amp; I spent the last hour of the day (11 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,25,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-technology","category-gadgets","category-geek"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}