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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: darragh windows on December 21, 2010, 08:06:47 pm

Title: new torch
Post by: darragh windows on December 21, 2010, 08:06:47 pm
bought this about a month ago on ebay
Item number: 160443998856
this is a new type of bulb very bright will easy light up windows 3 stories up probably more
or even just handy to keep in the van
Title: Re: new torch
Post by: GB Window Cleaning on December 21, 2010, 09:35:57 pm
cool! i use a torch for winter night canvassing and this sounds really good for me! do you use it for after sunset working?
Title: Re: new torch
Post by: GB Window Cleaning on December 21, 2010, 09:38:55 pm
 :o 99p!!! really?

Oh and just thought its probably not a good idea for using on domestic jobs, shining a bright light into somebodys house sounds a little intrusive dont you think  ;D

Would be fair enough on industrial and commersial though!  ;)

but out of interest whats new and special about this torch? looks like a normal led to me  :-[
Title: Re: new torch
Post by: dai on December 21, 2010, 09:50:43 pm
I have one of these and they are scary, it's like having a shaft of sunlight. I think you could temperarily blind someone with it. On widebeam you can easily light up the front of a house, on narrow beam it throws a light for a couple of hundred yards.
They are strange in that the narrow beam is rectangular showing the shape of the LED. The light is like a projector light, pure white.
There are Uk sellers too, about £8.00 delivered.
This one is rated at 300 lumense 5 watts, they also do a 500 lumens version, I think you would pay ffor that in diminished battery life.
I paid nearly £40 for the pro lenser head torch, this one blows it out of the water.
Title: Re: new torch
Post by: Poles R Us on December 21, 2010, 09:55:24 pm
bought this about a month ago on ebay
Item number: 160443998856
this is a new type of bulb very bright will easy light up windows 3 stories up probably more
or even just handy to keep in the van

do you clean windows at night then ???
Title: Re: new torch
Post by: Gav Camm lammy 283 on December 21, 2010, 10:22:00 pm
doesnt jeff brimble use a torch
strapped to his poles  ??? ???
Title: Re: new torch
Post by: Steven Shoreditch on December 21, 2010, 10:53:41 pm
Marc Almond.
Title: Re: new torch
Post by: GB Window Cleaning on December 22, 2010, 11:57:07 am
doesnt jeff brimble use a torch
strapped to his poles  ??? ???

Good idea  ;)
Title: Re: new torch
Post by: jarvy on December 22, 2010, 02:24:56 pm
Don't think i would want my custies to see me wearing that,i would be laughed at!!!!!  ;D
Title: Re: new torch
Post by: darragh windows on December 22, 2010, 06:30:54 pm
i dont use it for domestics , its main use for me is an office block we do monthly where the cars park tight against the building so we have always started it about seven when everyone has left, during the winter we always had to do it on a saturday or sunday when no one is in but this small investment keeps my weekends free. the main difference in the torch over a led similar head torch is the bulb is has one small bulb smaller than an led called a cree bulb. its like a car headlamp on you head with an adjustable beam and the batteries seem to last a couple of hours (just cheap throw away batteries ive been using) there is hand torches if you search cree torch on ebay that comes with a clamp for a bicycle which should easily fit onto any pole , b and q also sell the hand ones with out the clamp but they are dearer and dont have as many looms
Title: Re: new torch
Post by: leights on December 22, 2010, 06:34:01 pm
I tend to clean in the day time only. where do you attach the light to?
Title: Re: new torch
Post by: GB Window Cleaning on December 22, 2010, 10:56:42 pm
@ darragh

Thanks for the info mate. interesting stuff isnt it!
Title: Re: new torch
Post by: Paul Coleman on December 23, 2010, 05:56:29 am
Cue:  Someone to invent a brush with a scraper on one side and a torch on the other.  Don't forget to include bristles  :)