TESCO LINESMAN LIGHT

Tesco Linesman Light, retail $~34.00 (www.tesco-advent.com...)
Manufactured by Tesco (www.tesco-advent.com)
Last updated 11-03-08




The Tesco Linesman Light is a fairly small, heavy-duty plastic flashlight that has a white 1 watt side-emitting LED in its business-end, and uses four AA cells to power that LED.

The body of the flashlight is a translucent red plastic with a rubber or rubber-like covering over most of it to aid in grip.


SIZE



To use the Tesco Linesman Light, twist the bezel (head) clockwise to turn it on, and twist the bezel counterclockwise to turn it off.

Yes, it's as easy as that.



To change the batteries in the Tesco, unscrew & remove the bezel (head), throw it in the {vulgar term for feces}bowl, yank that silver handle on the front of the cistern down, and flush it away...O WAIT!!! YOU'LL NEED THAT!!! So just set it aside instead.

Remove the illuminator assembly (reflector with LED and contacts on its bottom) and set that aside too.

Tip the dead AA cells out of the barrel and dispose of or recycle them how you see fit.

Place two new AA cells in one chamber, both facing the same direction. Then fill the other chamber but install the cells the opposite way.

Place the illuminator assembly back into the top of the barrel; there is a plastic fin on one side of it that fits a slot inside the barrel; rotate the illuminator assembly until it "drops down" a bit.

Screw the bezel back on, and test your light. If it fails to come on, remove the batteries and reinstall them the other way.

Aren't you glad you didn't flush away that bezel now?

Unable to measure current consumption due to how the flashlight was constructed.



Because this is a "loaner", the punishments I normally bestow upon flashlights will not be inflicted upon this flashlight. I'm sure its owner would like it returned with no dings in the bezel or yukky old toliet water or desiccated rat pellets in the barrel.

So this portion of the web page will be ***SIGNIFICANTLY*** more bare than this section of the web page on a page about a flashlight that isn't a loaner or passaround.

The light produced by the Tesco is a pure white, with no yellow, blue, purple, or "rotten giraffe urine green" tint anywhere in it.



Beam photograph at ~12".
Measures 503,000mcd on a Meterman LM631 light meter.



Beam photograph on a wall at ~10 feet.

Those rectangular graphic things in the upper right quadrant of this photograph are marquees from:

Sega ''Star Trek''
Atari ''Tempest''
Venture Line ''Looping''
Jaleco ''Exerion''

upright coin-op arcade video games from the 1980s.

And those colored graphics toward the left are my "Viva Piņata" posters.


Spectrographic plot
Spectrographic analysis of the LED in this flashlight.
USB2000 spectrometer graciously donated by P.L.


ProMetric analysis
Beam cross-sectional analysis.
Image made using the ProMetric System by Radiant Imaging.



TEST NOTES:
Test unit was sent as a loaner by a fan of this website on 10-30-08, and was received the next day (Halloween - 10-31-08).


UPDATE: 00-00-00



PROS:



CONS:



    MANUFACTURER: Tesco
    PRODUCT TYPE: Handheld flashlight
    LAMP TYPE: 1W side-emitting white LED
    No. OF LAMPS: 1
    BEAM TYPE: Narrow flood with brighter center
    SWITCH TYPE: Twist bezel on/off
    BEZEL: Plastic; LED and reflector protected by plastic window
    BATTERY: 4x AA cells
    CURRENT CONSUMPTION: Unknown/unable to measure
    WATER RESISTANT: Yes
    SUBMERSIBLE: Yes, depth not known
    ACCESSORIES: Unknown
    WEIGHT: 6.4oz w/batteries
    WARRANTY: Lifetime

    PRODUCT RATING:

    Star Rating





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