Experienced Hiker Tells You How to Choose Outdoor flashlights

For those who love nature, camping may be best to get close to nature. But it's not easy to spend long nights in wildness, as lease not as easy as in the city. Therefore you have to make full preparations to cope with the possible situations. Torch lights are necessary if you are going camping. Considering the function of the lamp, please make sure your lighting requirements, and then choose products that meet the requirements. The purpose of this article is to make an ordinary consumer to grasp some basic knowledge of flashlights.

            

Purpose of purchase

Before you plan to buy a lighting tool, you must first ask yourself: "I want to get it to do?" I certainly do not expect you to just answer "to illuminate the darkness". I mean that you will take it him as working tools, camping, diving, rescue work, cave exploring, or general household, and so on. Only make sure it's clear purpose, you know flashlight function is suitable for you, if your torch light is just general household, then select the D-type alkaline batteries, incandescent flashlight is a more sensible, because of its weight is not the main factors that you need to consider, when not simply set aside.

 

Materials and workmanship

The Flashlight sometimes the use of materials must take into account. The materials generally produced torch in two ways: aluminum and plastic / polymer. Aluminum do Flashlight good flashlight, the most common example is Mag series torches. Although the aluminum in the face of hard objects relatively easy to scratch, but overall is still very durable. Plastic or polymer materials flashlight usually have a variety of shapes, because the plastic can be easily processed into the desired shape. You may find that the flat, round, and so on. In general, your torch with plastic will be better able to withstand more blow. Select polymer do material flashlight or some of the benefits. Such as the color of the entire torch will be the same; scratches and will not like the aluminum material so easily apparent; the flexibility of the plastic is also very good.

 

Bulbs

There are several on the market as a flashlight bulb. Generally speaking, they are classified into the following three categories: the incandescent type, LED (light emitting diode) and the fluorescent type. The incandescent light bulb is glowing heating filament to near the melting point. Filament foot power to issue a strong light, but when less and less battery power, the filament will be cold, it sends the yellow light will be more, until finally exterminate. LED is directly most of the battery chemistry is converted to light. The LED on the use of low-power energy conversion efficiency is very high, when the battery running out of power, its light will not turn yellow slowly, but has maintained its own color.

 

LEDs has been used as lighting source for torch and they develop very fast. They are usually more energy efficient than incandescent bulbs, so now, many families have chosen the LED tube lights for lighting. In terms of running time they are longer than incandescent bulbs by about 5-10 times, and they won't get damaged easily. Their lifespan is very long. So even thousands of hours of continuous use will be alright.Therefore LED is ideal light source option.