Last weekend at set build, one of the other volunteers was admiring my homemade tool battery. Today you came up to me and told me that someone had his condos was getting rid of a bunch of tools because they didn't have a battery. He asked if I wanted to have them to see if I could build a battery for them like I did for my drill.
I said yes, not really expecting anything good, but he walked me out to his car and handed me a big bag of tools, all of which use the exact same type of battery used by my drill and my impact driver that I dug out of the trash a few weeks ago.
He gave me a cordless sawzall, a drill, a flashlight / lantern, and another battery charger. A whole suite of these tools now!
First thing I'm going to do is convert the incandescent flashlight/lantern to LED
I might open it up and crank the LED driver up to 1.25 watts. It's at 1 watt right now and I think it can handle a little more. The difference in brightness between the two is very noticeable
Hey, Emily , I have an old 2 D-cell Maglite flashlight. It had a super bright (krypton?) incandescent bulb, but burned through batteries at an astonishing pace. So I decided to buy an LED bulb for it. I found one on amazon and the result was a great big super heavy flashlight, suitable as a weapon, with less light output than a free penlight sent to me by Doctors Without Borders.
@MLE_online There are a few really sharp makers on youtube. Have you thought about doing a channel? They are good at finishing their projects.
Xyla Foxlin, Simone Giertz for example..
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