I was in the Manhattan Home Depot and found this great flashlight.
Lowes Link for reference (Not listed on Home Depot website)
Works with 3, 6 or 9 AA Batteries. Free standing or hold like regular flashlight.

Lowes has it for $19.95. Home Depot price was $5.

That's actually on my Christmas wish list. Maybe I'll just get it and save someone the trouble.

that flashlight sucks..My boss brought one with us on a job site and it isn't very bright at all.

Wait, Manhattan has a Home Depot? You are kidding me, right?

Got one of these at Costco last year (or maybe the year before)...if memory serves, paid something like $15 for it. Was very helpful for one or two projects, most notably replacing a bathroom faucet--- lying on my back, looking up at the underside of the sink. Perfect for that. Unfortunately, the springy mechanism that opens the legs simultaneously and keeps them open broke after only a few months, rendering it almost unusable.

I see that now they have a fancier version of this, with three separate, pivotable lights on top of the tripod.

I have this Flashlight. Good for tent camping when you point up. Not that bright to light a room up. I never catch the YMMV Home Depot NA

GeoCacher said:Saw one of theses this last weekend and thought it was neat, until I turned it on, and realized a bic lighter has more lumens in it. Why can't we go back to the days when flashlights were, well, flashlights, and not a bunch of LED's that cost .10 cents a piece, but put together in a bunch to be called a flashlight that sells for $40.00? LED's are a joke or light, and only a money maker for the greedy in the light market.

This one has a single high power LED not a bunch of unfocused low-end ones.

It takes up to 9 AA batteries for the LEDs!

GeoCacher said:Saw one of theses this last weekend and thought it was neat, until I turned it on, and realized a bic lighter has more lumens in it. Why can't we go back to the days when flashlights were, well, flashlights, and not a bunch of LED's that cost .10 cents a piece, but put together in a bunch to be called a flashlight that sells for $40.00? LED's are a joke or light, and only a money maker for the greedy in the light market.

Um, this flashlight will set you back only $5 and its selling point is the tripod feature, not ridiculous brightness. Even so, it is better than the $5-10 flashlights in the checkout aisle of the hardware store. They're comparable enough (in terms of output) to a stock maglite which is the "best" flashlight to most people (but actually is considered low-end to anybody that knows flashlights).

Plus, did you consider that you were testing this flashlight in the middle of a well-lit store? I got some in the Costco deal (3-pack: big, medium, and small for $9.97), and they worked fine for around the house repairs in dim/dark places and at work behind server racks and to look inside equipment.

LED's are definitely not a joke. Check out the 200 Lumen Husky Flashlight ($25) thread.


RogerOThornhill said:This one has a single high power LED not a bunch of unfocused low-end ones.

Hmm.. that means its different than the ones I got from Costco.

marFAN2003 said:It takes up to 9 AA batteries for the LEDs!

You can put in 3AA's per leg of the tripod. All 9 are not required. As long as one leg has 3 AA's, the flashlight will work. Fill the other two to get longer runtime (but not more brightness)

They still have a dozen in the Salem, MA store. They're in a free-standing display in the Light Bulb aisle.