Below is yet another inexpensive LED mini-flashlight https://www.dorcy.com/ultra-hd-series-160-lumen-flashlight
I guarantee you that 90% of the volunteer Thai responders did not have a light this good. But the reason I call attention to this light is that I purchased it at ROSS Store for just $ 7.99 plus tax. Suitable for all large dry/humid caves in Texas and smaller Mexican caves as a side-mounted light on the helmet. As long as you are not planning on submerging it in water. For such a small light, the spot distance is impressive ( advertising 192 meters ). Meaning you do not want to look directly into it or blind your caving buddies. I tested it in a dark open field and it was suitable for long straight walking size passage or for shining up into domes and high ceilings. This would have been a $ 40 light about 5 years ago. Does not yet get my official seal of approval, as it is not water-proof, and has that silly strobe-light function. I would say that if you find it for $ 6.99 plus tax, than get it. D L. P.S. I just got my Sequoia out of the shop and for the first time it finally drives like a V8. I must have purchased it with some bad air-injection pump and parts ( for the emissions system ), and either those parts made it back onto the replacement motor of last year or the replacement motor also had bad parts. That set me back an unexpected $ 2,000 which is certainly going to put a nail in the coffin of my dreams of going to the NSS Convention in Montana. To make matters worse, the mechanic did not charge the battery before I left and I only drove it a block, and parked it. Today, I took a bus across town to get it and it would not start. I was stranded in the scorching sun and could not find help. About an hour later, a scary guy with Zeta tattoos all over his face, showed up and after impressing him with my Spanish skills, he decided to help me and give me a jump. But this caused me to miss a delivery at work. I calculated the drive to Helena and it is only 2 hours further for me than Ely, Nevada. That road-trip took took a year off my life-span, and I said I would never do it again. However, the Sequoia was not ready then for such a road-trip, nor did it have my new fancy speleo-luggage-rack. And the drive was in the scorching desert. I would not mind driving from Casper, Wyoming to Helena. But dreading driving from Houston to Casper. There is a Craigslist offer to drop me off near Pocatello, Idaho on Wednesday the 18th, but that is about 10 days to soon. I would do that if I had the funds and the ability to close my business for 3 weeks. But that would be a one way trip.
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