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I am looking for high quality penlight kits. My wife is a nurse and she would like a pen light for work. I have been looking around the web and have found a few but I want to make sure I get a quality kit since She can be rough on things.

Anyone have any suggestions.

Thanks
 
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Hey Jack I put together one of the PSI pen lights for my wife who is also an RN. It looks great but for some reason it eats batteries.
 
Jack9580 said:
Thanks. I was looking for a bit more info but its good to know they eat batteries.
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Sorry Jack
Both my wife and I are notoriously hard on gear of any kind, her pen light has held up well and the kit is of good quality. The only minor complaint she had was it eats batteries. I thought the kit could have allowed for a bit thicker wood but it has held up well.

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No idea we rarely see temps above 65 outside and the hospital is a steady 70. I cant imagine the battery it's self heats up that much.
 
Could you share your procedure for the change to LED as well as your parts source. I just purchased two of these kits and the LED upgrade might be a good idea.

Thanks. Don.
 
Canadian_Kid said:
Could you share your procedure for the change to LED as well as your parts source.
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Back when I used a standard penlight kit, I simply replaced the supplied bulb with an L222 bulb. It's a drop-in LED replacement for a standard penlight bulb. I don't remember where I got them, but they were pretty expensive.

That said, I wasn't impressed with the kit quality. I think turning a new skin for a mini-maglight produces a much nicer result.

I hope that helps,
Eric
 
Fred said:
Here is a link to the replacement LED lightbulbs.

Be sure to hold onto something firm as these thingies are quite expensive considering just what they are.

http://www.led-replacement.com/l222.html
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At the bottom of the page.....Secure Online Shopping........

They have the 'List Price' as $19.95 and the 'Sale' price as $23.95

I don't care much for their "SALE" price!!!


Barney
 
I have made dozens of the 1st gen PSI pen light. The one with the black top have had no problems.

FYI Im a RN and see many make the lights with Wood in natural finish ie friction polish or the like. Light finnished like that will cause cross contanination of Wounds so You should use CA or make the light out of Acrlic or inlace or any blanks that will not be porous or us a blank that can take much alcohol wiping due to freq cleaning

They do sell well for me
as for the battery life. The ones the hospitals supply the staff last no longer and cant be changed out they are throw a ways
 
Hess said:
I have made dozens of the 1st gen PSI pen light. The one with the black top have had no problems.

FYI Im a RN and see many make the lights with Wood in natural finish ie friction polish or the like. Light finnished like that will cause cross contanination of Wounds so You should use CA or make the light out of Acrlic or inlace or any blanks that will not be porous or us a blank that can take much alcohol wiping due to freq cleaning

They do sell well for me
as for the battery life. The ones the hospitals supply the staff last no longer and cant be changed out they are throw a ways
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Thank You

That is all great info.
 
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