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Posted at 10:20 PM on Tuesday 07/29/08 by
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Bass Pro Shops has the 1 Million Candle Power Spotlight for $9 with free shipping. Cordless and rechargeable, with 25 minutes of continuous operation on a full charge. One per customer. [BizRate]
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    hdd871 - Posted 10:27 pm PDT 07/29/08 (107 Posts)  Report Spam

    The power of 1 million candles in the comfort of your hands!!!

    The cavemen never saw this one coming.

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    dave_c - Posted 11:11 pm PDT 07/29/08 (20902 Posts)  Report Spam

    If you care about light, you will recognize that the fish can't tell, that there are better options. BUt, maybe not for $9 DELIVERED, half the cost is the shipping so if you just need cheapest thing possible then it's a deal.

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    groovielou - Posted 12:28 am PDT 07/30/08 (824 Posts)  Report Spam

    WOW, Now thats what I call a deal! Got Me one!

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    heddy_lamar - Posted 6:05 am PDT 07/30/08 (665 Posts)  Report Spam

    I want a BILLION Candles!

    Signed, Dr. Evil.

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    rennickhoek - Posted 6:23 am PDT 07/30/08 (155 Posts)  Report Spam

    Quote:
    I want a BILLION Candles!

    Signed, Dr. Evil.



    So...buy 1,000 of these

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    Ima_Cheapass - Posted 6:33 am PDT 07/30/08 (447 Posts)  Report Spam

    I care about light.

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    nimbus - Posted 6:37 am PDT 07/30/08 (129 Posts)  Report Spam

    FYI - orders are being cancelled. Mine was. Sux.... its so dark in here.

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    bradbranch - Posted 7:06 am PDT 07/30/08 (364 Posts)  Report Spam

    I care about charged particles and one world.

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    JediKnight - Posted 7:15 am PDT 07/30/08 (3446 Posts)  Report Spam

    Let there be light.

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    Shiyonin - Posted 7:18 am PDT 07/30/08 (156 Posts)  Report Spam

    I just ordered and mine went through, maybe you tried to order more than 1, which will result in a cancellation of your order.

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    BubbRubb - Posted 7:29 am PDT 07/30/08 (1276 Posts)  Report Spam

    The camo design sucks. I dropped mine in the woods one day and couldn't find it after looking for 30 min.

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    bradbranch - Posted 7:39 am PDT 07/30/08 (364 Posts)  Report Spam

    My unit of charged particles was denied because of being ordered in the backend. Out of stock!!! You must backorder this in order to receive this order! Damm order I want ONE WORLD ORDER AND I WILL HAVE IT because I'm a Citizen of the World!

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    acumenhokie - Posted 8:00 am PDT 07/30/08 (625 Posts)  Report Spam

    In for 1, so far so good.....

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    acumenhokie - Posted 8:04 am PDT 07/30/08 (625 Posts)  Report Spam

    edit. Deal is dead

    We apologize but at this time we are unable to fill your order. Either the price of the item(s) you ordered was less than our backorder limit or you requested that we not backorder your merchandise. Therefore, your order has been cancelled.

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    LiveSquid - Posted 8:06 am PDT 07/30/08 (2122 Posts)  Report Spam

    My order was canceled as soon as I placed it. Perhaps because I chose the option that they could not send it later.. It could simply be oos.

    Ok, after trying again, letting them back order it, I still got canceled.. I expect its a dead deal.

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    gthgr8t - Posted 9:21 am PDT 07/30/08 (484 Posts)  Report Spam

    m.....for some reason it accepted mine with no problem and said it would be shipped immediately. Perhaps it is coming from the local store that is about 100 miles from me.

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    Ben_Dover - Posted 10:10 am PDT 07/30/08 (114 Posts)  Report Spam

    Deal still alive but on life support. Got this email...

    "Thank you for ordering from Bass Pro.

    We sincerely regret that the item(s) shown below have been backordered. We expect our stock to be replenished within the next 30 days. Your credit card will not be charged for these items until they have been shipped."

    Still a good deal regardless.

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    dave_c - Posted 11:47 am PDT 07/30/08 (20902 Posts)  Report Spam

    I should mention I have the yellow version of this Vector light. Got it at PepBoys a year or two ago for about $4 after a rebate or maybe it was free.

    Produces a fair amount of light for the money but I didn't like the short runtime even from the (then) new, fully charged, 6V (4A??) SLA battery inside. Realistically it's a 15 minute light unless you remember to recharge it within a couple months of use. At least it has that going for it, being SLA instead of NiMH it doesn't self discharge very fast but I was more interested in a floodlight for camping or home power outtages where you'd want longer runtime.

    It is fairly sturdy and break resistant as described except the front *lens* is a flat non-focused piece of glass, maybe about 3mm thick which may break if it's dropped on a hard surface or the lens hits a rock, etc.

    I ended up putting in a Cree XR-E LED and driver board from http://www.dealextreme.com , needing to slightly grind down the rear lip of the metal reflector to position the LED's star base, then I put a large O-ring between the top of the LED's base and the metal reflector to electrically isolate it.

    A couple holes were drilled through the reflector about 3/4" away from the center through which bolts held a slim socket 7 heatsink against the LED die. That proved sufficient to cool it running at about 750mA giving the light several hours of runtime. It's now one of my favorite flashlights with the LED mod, though someday I will certainly break the glass lens and make a replacement polycarb lens for it.

    It would've been nice if it had D sized ~ 10AH NiMH battery pack too but that would cost more than the resulting light would be worth.

    Oh, I almost forgot to mention the timing of doing the LED mod to mine. I'd been thinking about doing it for a while but ended up doing it when the light failed. It has a small value fuse soldered in series with the battery lead, a value apparently a bit too small for the…

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    InVINCEblE - Posted 6:18 pm PDT 08/8/08 (1029 Posts)  Report Spam

    Vampires will fear my name. MUHA.

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