{"id":5332,"date":"2011-07-05T06:30:42","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T07:57:34","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-03-26T17:03:05","modified_gmt":"2013-03-27T00:03:05","slug":"4sevens-preon-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/4sevens-preon-2\/","title":{"rendered":"4Sevens Preon 2 Penlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently discovered that as one ages you need more photons to see clearly. In particular, when skimming the bookshelves at home it&#8217;s extremely hard for me to make out titles because my eyes require (a lot) more light than they formerly did.<\/p>\n<p>My wife gave me a 4Sevens Preon 2 penlight last December, and I love it. It weighs 1.6 oz and uses two AAA batteries. No special batteries needed. In addition to the 3 main selections (low &#8211; 2.2 lumens; medium &#8211; 22 lumens; high &#8211; 120 ANSI lumens), it has a strobe and SOS options, not of use to me. When you turn it on, it comes on &#8220;low&#8221;. Pressing on\/off switch slightly then switches to &#8220;medium,&#8221; pressing slightly again switches to &#8220;high.&#8221; A full press on the switch turns it off. Actual operation is easier than the explanation suggests.<\/p>\n<p>It gets this much light from the new CREE XP-G S2 LED, a modern LED capable of incredible light output. Low, at 2.2 lumens, is fairly dim, but ideal for reading a restaurant menu in a dimly lighted place. And it&#8217;s good that the dim comes on first: the &#8220;high&#8221; setting seems like flashbulb brightness, which would be annoying in (for example) a good restaurant or if you want to read from the program during a play.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s easily carried, and 120 ANSI lumens is a LOT of light and provides excellent illumination. So far as I can tell, this is the current leader in the penlight format. And my life is easier now that I can readily carry sufficient light for my elderly eyes.<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Powerful, pocketable penlight<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[41],"tags":[1350],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5332"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5332"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11088,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5332\/revisions\/11088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}