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November 7, 2017 108 mins

Do you carry a light for personal defense?  If you do, what light have you selected?  How do you carry it?  Where does it rank in importance in your EDC?

In today’s episode Richard and I talk about things like:

  • How Richard and I met in real life and social media safety
  • The flashlight revolution
  • The Beginnings of Flashlights
  • Maglite 
  • Streamlight SL20 Rechargeable
  • Surefire 6P 
  • Lumens is all the focus but there are more aspects to a quality light
  • Candela - Candlepower “peak beam intensity” measures the largest reflected intensity.
  • Lumens - Total amount of light - measures one moment in time and all of the light that is output.
  • How lumens and candela work together
  • Standards - ANSI/Neema/Plato FL1 Standards and how they are helping you to make good choices when it comes to lights
  • Problems with FL1 standards - The runtime issue
  • Tlr 6 Review and Graph 
  • GHG  -  
  • What makes for a good light
  • My EDC Flashlight 
  • Batteries and how they can improve the performance of your light
  • Lithium is the way to go.
  • Cr123 
  • AAA 
  • AA 
  • How do you select a good self-defense/personal protection light?
  • Specific recommendations:
  • Elzetta
  • Streamlight
  • Protac HL 
  • http://amzn.to/2zhVSEM
  • SHOT Show - coverage

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