Again, why a crank flashlight? Well, up until this point, I’d pretty much been using normal flashlights. The kind that you can just simply buy at any grocery or hardware store. And I didn’t really have too many problems with them. They worked. If I needed light in a dark place, they were there to provide illumination. The problem though was that those darn flashlights were such greedy, hungry monsters. Basically, I’d keep it somewhere nice and dry and cool, and yet I’d find that when it was time to make use of the device, the batteries were dead. So there wouldn’t be any light at all. Or there’d be a bit of light, but then after a while, the light would fade, and then conk out altogether.
So I was getting somewhat tired of having flashlights that tended to run out of juice just when I needed them. The problem was that I don’t really use flashlights on a regular basis. For example, I used to keep a flashlight in the car, for those moments when you need to do a quick inspection, or maybe change a flat tire, somewhere where there really isn’t any light or hardly any light to work by.
