LED Lenser P7 Flashlight: Review & Giveaway
I’d love to say something like “it’s not everyday I get something free in the mail to giveaway” but let’s face it. It is everyday. Cause this is Geekadelphia, and we roll in swag for fun. Sometimes I lean outside of my row-home and scream “LET IT RAIN!” while showering people in free electronics, video games, and high definition televisions. That’s just how I do.
But onto the item at hand. This awesome LED Lenser.
Today in Geeky Giveaways, I’ve got an awesome P7 Flashlight from LED Lenser. The kind folks over at Coast sent me one of these little guys, and I’ve gotta say, this is one amazing flashlight. Why? Let’s discuss.
First of all, this flashlight is designed for tactical and professional use… or professional tactical use! This handy gadget was made with law enforcement and extreme outdoor types in mind, and isn’t your standard “trying to find junkfood at 4am in the kitchen cabinets” kind of flashlight… though it’ll certainly do that. Trust me, I tested it. It found my Doritos quite quickly. They were delicious.
The light has a run time of 78 hours on just four AAA batteries, with a beam distance of over 700 feet. With a quick turn of the headlamp, the light goes from a focused spot beam to a huge spotlight, creating one of the brightest lights I’ve ever seen on such a small flashlight. The casing is aluminum, water resistant, and it uses a super bright LED bulb, which doesn’t get hot.
Honestly, I was planning to keep this for myself, considering it’s the perfect little light for hikes through Fairmount or camping out in the Poconos, but hey, I like to share.
These little guys retail for nearly $90. For you, dear readers, it’s free. Leave a comment in the post saying what you’d use the flashlight for. Camping? Spelunking? Shadow puppet shows? Annoying coworkers? Shining beams of light into the opposite baseball team’s eyes? I’ll select a comment at random and send you the flashlight. Easy as that. The winner will be announced next Thursday, August 6th.
For more information on these flashlights, hit up the official product website. And check out the gallery of photos after the jump!
this is a hot flashlight… I think it would be helpful to have in my car jsut in case my battery died!
This flashlight would be excellent for my nocturnal antics–foraging for milkcrates in the shady underbelly of America and beyond. I need this, pretty please!
Owning this flashlight may make cupcakes appear at Eric’s home….just saying, totally unrelated to the contest.
FlashLIGHT? I call that a flashBEAM. I could use that during my upcoming trip to the backwoods of New Hampshire. You can’t see a damn thing! Good on ya, Eric.
I love that you mentioned shadow puppets! I’m sold!
Let me set the stage. Northeast Philadelphia has been decimated by artillery from ever the aggressors Olney and the Oak Lanes. The Boulevard is in ruins; even Mayfair is a bleak landscape of Frankford Avenue signs, torn Irish flags and replica Mother Mary’s. A heavy cloud of remorse and the dust from the imploded Northeast Airport keeps Torresdale in a perpetual night. Somewhere former Mayoral candidate Al Taubenberger is on the roadside, his entourage of NEast-related security all subdued by Olny ninjas. Only one man can save Al and that, of course, is me, which I do lighting the way with the LED Lenser P7 flashlight. I hoist Al on my back and we climb the great heights of the Northeast Chamber of Commerce, from there, by shining the flashlight through a pattern I cleverly cut through my trousers, I alert the Air National Guard, who rescuse Al. Am I coming, too, they ask? No, I say, there are others to save.
Living in Florida, the lightning capital of the U.S., my apartment has gotten its fair share of outages. This beast of a flashlight would help quell the fears of my daughter, who believes “mean scary creatures” exist after watching Coraline.
Id use this light for some mega extreme ghost stories out back of my house fully complete with a badass campfire and tents!!!!
I’d keep it in my Apocalypse Ruck and use it to blind zombies when they come. Could also be useful to fend off Vogon poetry.
OMG Vogon poetry! Well done!
Oohh! I bet this would be the perfect birthday gift for a certain mischievous husband (mine). He’d probably love it for his photo walks in the evenings…and to annoy coworkers/friends. Mostly the second…
Um, I need this so I can continue the trend of having cooler electronics than my boyfriends. Also, seeing in the dark. Can haz?
I would use it to freak out my cats. Mwahahahaha.
I will give it to my father for his birthday. It seems no matter what the gadget I get him, he already owns one better. I doubt he has a flashlight to top this beauty in his collection.
i’ll get plenty of use out of it when PECO inevitably shuts off my electricity.
I’d use it to overpower the PECO sign out my window
I’m a big fan of ridiculously overpowered flashlights. Also, I have a birthday coming up. So…
A haiku:
I would take the light
and make morse code signals to
neighbors down the street
My birthday is also coming up, and having a flashlight of this caliber would surely help in arming myself for the coming Zombie apocalypse.
Our power goes out a LOT here so this would be great….as well as for my family b/c some of them go camping.
-Lauren
I just might bring this little number to the local hospital and pull that old “come to the light” prank in the OR. I think the surgeons would get a kick out of it, no?
To tell scary stories to my nieces and nephews…like the story of the 2000 election.
honestly, these days my primary flashlight usage involves shining it down the back of my mouth/throat to constantly check on the progress that my healing removed-wisdom-teeth-sockets are making. but i bet i could see it REALLY WELL with this flashlight!
I’d use the flashlight to constrict the dilated pupils of anyone who foolishly asks why I always carry a flashlight.
check on my beehives at 2 am
Since i recently decided to engage in the torture that is a career in nurse anesthesia (with it’s 5 graduate level classes per semester and receiving only 2 days off next year-christmas and new years), i discovered some new uses for a penlight just like this one:
checking cranial nerve reflexes,
illuminating scrotum to look for masses,
blinding my partner during a check for pupillary responses,
blinding my instructor so she can’t see my performance on a physical assessment demo,
looking up people’s noses,
likewise ears,
transilluminating the thyroid, and looking for jugular venous distension
navigating the tunnels under the school looking for an escape.
Truly, if i were to win the flashlight, i would continue to look for the escape.
I would use it to brave the horrors of what lies under my bed!
Chupacabra hunting.
That’s interesting Eric… I’d use it for everything that you mentioned. Camping, Spelunking, Shadow puppet shows & Annoying coworkers. As for the baseball team, does a little league team work? Somehow I think that would be more entertaining…
This will be a welcome addition to my Zombie Survival Kit.
How else am I supposed to see when I create my real life version of DigDug?
Maybe I can shine this through the thin walls of my row home when my neighbor is a little too “enthusiastic” at 3am.
I will use this to illuminate my targeting area, for when I’m flinging things (bags of cat litter, etc) out my window at 3am at the schmuck’s car whose alarm keeps going off.
I got my teeth capped last week and now have to narfle the garthok……and this would be a much appreciated accessory to my stick and rock that i currently have to defend myself.
Great review. I am a security guy so this little power house would be ideal for illuminating those dark spaces where evil tarry.
I would use it to signal an air plane to land on my street. I would then use said plane to fly to Philly so I could hang out with you and all your kick-ass friends!
To tell ghost stories with, what else. isnt it obvious.
So many uses for such a a small little light: 1.As a tactical flashlight in nighttime airsoft, blinding your opponent if they are close enough can net you an easy kill. 2. Using it as a light when im fixing/workig on my PC. 3. Using it to annoy my girlfriend when I’m bored.
I’d love to use that camping in the adirondacks.
I would use this flashlight to shine a light in the darkness, to be a beacon of hope, to show the way to metaphors that, quite frankly, are ridiculously overused.
I would def use this at work (UPS) to check trailers and use it to fend off frisky deers.
I would sit it on the basement stairs of my rowhome in Northern Liberties. I would use it when I’m cooking breakfast and the breaker flips because the coffee pot, microwave and toaster oven are all on at the same time. I will go to the stairs and flip the basement light switch only to remember that for some reason the basement lights are on the same circuit (but not the kitchen light). Luckly my LED Lenser P7 Flashlight would be right there! I’d grab it and go flip the breaker back. Then I would wait patiently for the coffee to stop brewing before toasting the English Muffins.
Was about to buy one but found quite a lot of derogatory stuff on the candlepowerforums. And those guys seem to know their lights. What gives?
I used it for Flashlight Photography and it rocked!
http://vimeo.com/6292931
As a NJ building inspector, this would definately come in handy.