Penlight

[firedoc5]

I now give a negative review on a type, not brand name, of hand held flashlights.

Avoid, if you can, any of the lights that you can charge up by shaking the flashlight. They usually say they use a Faraday type "generator", where a shuttlecock magnet gets moved, by the shaking, throught a coil, causing an electrical current, that gets stored in a capacitor, and then used to power up an LED (light emitting diode).

These things do not hold a charge while in storage, and the active usage before you need to "Shake Your Booty" (thanks, KC and the Sunshine Band) to recharge, is usually short. If you're working a call in a bedroom where the lights are from down the hallway, this can be tiring. Also, it must be shut down while shaking it to recharge.

It might be OK for you if you don't mind standing in darkness for over a minute while shaking it, after any period of over an hour's usage or storage.

Then, there is what it looks like. You either look like you're shaking dice at the craps tables on that Native American "Rez" casino, or it looks like you are masturbating. I remember the weird looks I was getting during the time I was using the thing, so that I was already planning on going back to the older style Streamlights, Maglights, or even one from Radio Shack, before the Eastern Seaboard Blackout a few years ago.

I'll second that all that.

We use to get some great one's from drug reps. If we just happened to be in the ER when any of them were around they made sure to supply us with anything we asked for. I don't remember any certain brand though. Just the trade name for medicines or the companies that make them.

[emtd29]

Whatever I can scrounge up at the firehouse...

[dahlio]

I have a packet of little white ones that I 'temporarily borrowed'. You keep them in the fridge to keep them charged up, they have the pupil sizes on the side, I use them as night lights and best of all they were free lol

I second that one.

[Ecnalubma08]

If it's free then it is just 10 times better! I like the ones with the pupil gauges...I think it's Prestige Medical that I use...either that or the free little key chain ones that say "Call 9-1-1 in and Emergency - Your fire dept.'s name." - haha.