What have all of you been doing with your old halogen canister lights?
Lori
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Ginnie Light
What have all of you been doing with your old halogen canister lights?
Lori
There are 3 kinds of people in this world; those who are good at math, and those who are not.
They're taking up space on top of a filing cabinet in the garage.
Actually, I've sold most of the ones I have owned. I think I have two left.
Light canisters
My clear plexi battery canister will be used as a one atmosphere gerbil habitat. A bit of wood chips in the bottom, and there you go.
I am installing a small wheel for the gerbil to run on, and I can weight the habitat to netural bouyancy, and take my gerbil, lets call him Nick, along on cave dives with me.
Then I can tell my wife that Nick and I went cave diving.
If you have one of the old neturalite or MLS cannisters, you could get something bigger than a gerbil, say a cat or small dog, in the cannister, although you would have to cut a viewport into the can, you know, for humane reasons.
I am working on the gerbil KISS valve, and a gerbil scrubber, a must for longer duration dives.
"Have you ever noticed
When you're feeling really good
There's always a pigeon
That'll come shiat on your hood?" John Prine 4-7-2020
"Into the blue again; in the silent water
Under the rocks, and stones; there is water underground" Talking Heads
I converted my Ginnie Light to HID. I even cut down the cannister to "wreck" size. You do have your own lathe, don't you?
Lathe? as a matter of fact, yes! Well, sorta yes....my dive buddy has a lathe, drill press, belt sander, etc.Originally Posted by FW
He was actually waxing poetic this weekend about cutting it down and going LED with it once the technology comes just a little bit further.
There are 3 kinds of people in this world; those who are good at math, and those who are not.
Re: Ginnie Light
Still using it when I dive back mount.
Use mine as a spare in case new technology HID lets me down.
If cave diving were Star Wars, who would be Yoda?
OFG-1
Are you developing a gerbil P-valve, or just using little bitty gerbil drysuit diapers?
Mike
I've been diving them. I like the color and the way the light penetrates. They are like old cars: simple, reliable, inexpensive.
PM me if you want to part with one
And if the bulb pops it only costs $3.97! New batteries, only $34.
Hard to believe not lugging around 16 pounds is worth $600. BUT IT IS!
If cave diving were Star Wars, who would be Yoda?
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