Good morning!!!!

[Alien]

Yes, probably pinched nerve in my neck maybe. It's getting tiresome.

 

[toppop52]

PJ,

Larry has a lot of my money, too...and I always round up for the "charitable" contribution.

This Cyclops is pretty pricey, but I got it at a better price than current. The floodlight function is pretty cool, with an extra LED on the bottom. I didn't try it with the red lens cover on, but will do that tonight.

Cyclops Revo 6000 Spotlight Rechargeable 18650 Batteries Polymer Black

Randy, I used to have a spotlight like you described that I used in our duck hunting boat. Although I don't think 6K lumen is supposed to be as strong, I think this one is brighter. May be the lens configuration, or my memory.

I had several that were rated at 250000-400000 candle power before I got this one, it’s about thirty years old, they say to convert candela to lumens multiply by 12.57. I have a hard time believing my spotlight has over 12 million lumens.

 

[toppop52]

It’s been 53 so far, quite a turnaround from the 25 this morning. Bright blue skies that look like spring. A bit of breeze. It’s much brighter out than it was six weeks ago, sun is getting more direct. I have to be careful not to get sunburn This time of year.

I started watching a documentary series this morning called Indian Wars, very interesting. It starts pre Colombian and moves through the different periods, a lot of history on how and where they lived.
I haven’t finished the first episode yet, too much to do, but I’ll catch up.

 

[lostcreekranch]

I thought the 550 lumen Streamlight I bought several years ago was bright! That cyclops is more than 10 times brighter, and a quick Amazon search shows a whole bunch that are even brighter.

How did you settle on the Cyclops, Bill?

I bought this one about a month ago and it was pretty disappointing. I don't see anything close to 6000 lumens.

Back it went.

https://smile.amazon.com/GEPROSMA-Spotlight-Rechargeable-Flashlight-Searchlight/dp/B089LK2VLC

 

[Popgadget]

Paul, my brother and his wife in New Hope were called two days ago, getting first shot tomorrow. They are older than you, ?

I’m pushing 70, so I’m group 1a.

For a flashlight here’s what I carry. 2000 lumens about the size of a pack of lifesavers.

Amazon.com

 

[RedNeckGeek]

I had several that were rated at 250000-400000 candle power before I got this one, it’s about thirty years old, they say to convert candela to lumens multiply by 12.57. I have a hard time believing my spotlight has over 12 million lumens.

According to this article, you really can't convert candlepower to lumens because candlepower is a measure of intensity of a spot of light, and lumens is a measure of light in all directions. So that helps explain what you're seeing, Randy.

But now matter how you measure it, there's a LOT of game playing and exaggeration going on by the folks that sell light sources, and it's even more common today with the advent of LEDs. I've had good luck with Surefire, Streamlight, and the economy brand Coast, but near as I can tell, only Streamlight makes a hand held spotlight.

Near as I can figure, a lot of it boils down to the specific LED they're using. There are generations of them, and within a given generation, the LEDs of a given type all have pretty much the same output. Find a trusted manufacturer so you get good construction that will deliver rated output, then wait a year for the output to double and do it all over again...

 

[wngsprd]

I thought the 550 lumen Streamlight I bought several years ago was bright! That cyclops is more than 10 times brighter, and a quick Amazon search shows a whole bunch that are even brighter.

How did you settle on the Cyclops, Bill?

I didn't do a lot of research or shopping. I wanted a very bright light, rain resistant, with rechargeable batteries, AND had a gift certificate and discount code for Midway, plus like doing business with them. I started out looking for a Streamlight, but they apparently don't make one that bright.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Maybe this is why I am feeding so much bird seed.

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Nice kangaroo

 

[buckeyefarmer]

My cannon hadn’t been full length for a while now.

TMI

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Good morning. It's 46° with an 11 mph north breeze. Our forecast says 63° this afternoon. Yesterday was cold, damp, windy, with rain off and on so .. a dryer day today is welcome.

We've got VFD apparatus checks this evening so .. we'll have to work around all the heavy earth moving machinery presently working on site prep for our new building. There's mud everywhere from our recent rains, snow, ice.

Today is Texas Independence Day and the 185th Anniversary of Texas declaring independence from Mexico on March 2nd .. 1836.

Texas declares independence | March 2, 1836 | HISTORY

During the Texas Revolution, a convention of American Texans meets at Washington-on-the-Brazos and declares the indep...

www.history.com

I spent yesterday morning in the big shop trouble shooting one of my air compressors .. a roughly 10 year old Craftsman "oil less".

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It runs but will not build any pressure in the tank. I removed all the covers and the top of the head .. expecting to see damaged reeds on the valve plate.

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The reeds look to be okay but .. I went online to partselect.com and ordered a new valve plate, the o-ring for bottom of the VP, the "D" o-ring for the top of the VP, and a piston o-ring JIC. They conformed my order but .. have not yet confirmed a ship date.

Perhaps the "Giddings Compressor Whisperer" will whisper some advise to me.

I've got a Porter-Cable pancake compressor to get me by but .. it's obviously pretty limited. This is probably a "good excuse" to go buy a "real air compressor" somewhere around 5 HP, 240 volts, 60-80 gallons and 14 CFM .. or better at 90 psi.

I trimmed several trees after our bad weather and took down a good sized oak the was leaning onto an even bigger oak. All are in areas, to wet to use tractors w/o lots of damage to fix later.

Hope everyone has a great day.

Prayers to all.

Compressor Central here, You need to look at the cylinder wall, and the piston ring or whatever it has for sealing. Some compressors you can buy a new drop in, thin wall cylinder/piston/lip seal. Your reeds look decent. Need more info.