Lidl have some very bright (60+lm) torches.
I just bought one, put the batts in and it didn't work.
Took it back.

By the time I got there the reason it didn't work was apparent..
the whole thing was too hot to hold as there was a short in it.
Good job it wasn't a 10 minute walk or things might have got serious.

Moral.. always remove the batts from faulty products.

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Lidl have some very bright (60+lm) torches.
I just bought one, put the batts in and it didn't work.
Took it back.

Are you sure they were the right way round?

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dennis@home wrote:
Lidl have some very bright (60+lm) torches.
I just bought one, put the batts in and it didn't work.
Took it back.

Are you sure they were the right way round?

And how would that explain the short?

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Lidl have some very bright (60+lm) torches.
I just bought one, put the batts in and it didn't work.
Took it back.

Are you sure they were the right way round?

And how would that explain the short?

Does it need explaining that an LED torch isn't the same as a tungsten one?

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Lidl have some very bright (60+lm) torches.
I just bought one, put the batts in and it didn't work.
Took it back.

Are you sure they were the right way round?

And how would that explain the short?

Does it need explaining that an LED torch isn't the same as a tungsten
one?

Does it need explaining that they don't break if you do put them in
backwards?
Its the sort of thing that people do so its a requirement that no damage is
done by inserting them incorrectly these days.
I expect you have never actually looked at one, or anything else that takes
batteries sold in the last decade or two.

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dennis@home wrote:
Lidl have some very bright (60+lm) torches.
I just bought one, put the batts in and it didn't work.
Took it back.

Are you sure they were the right way round?

And how would that explain the short?

Does it need explaining that an LED torch isn't the same as a tungsten
one?

Does it need explaining that they don't break if you do put them in
backwards? Its the sort of thing that people do so its a requirement
that no damage is done by inserting them incorrectly these days. I
expect you have never actually looked at one, or anything else that
takes batteries sold in the last decade or two.

Normally I'd agree with this. But it is you we're talking about.

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dennis@home wrote:
Lidl have some very bright (60+lm) torches.
I just bought one, put the batts in and it didn't work.
Took it back.

Are you sure they were the right way round?

And how would that explain the short?

Does it need explaining that an LED torch isn't the same as a
tungsten one?

Does it need explaining that they don't break if you do put them in
backwards?

Like I said ...

lucky escape

that could have been your whole career as a cocaine mule ruined

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On 06/06/2011 10:03, dennis@home wrote:
Lidl have some very bright (60+lm) torches.
I just bought one, put the batts in and it didn't work.
Took it back.

By the time I got there the reason it didn't work was apparent..
the whole thing was too hot to hold as there was a short in it.
Good job it wasn't a 10 minute walk or things might have got serious.

Moral.. always remove the batts from faulty products.

"red leader, red leader. device failed! device failed!!, over?"

"copy that..."

"what do we do now...."

"go to plan B"

"what? the Angle Grinder with the dodgy internally fractured discs?"

"yes! but will he buy it?"

"half price it, he will. Out!"

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Lidl have some very bright (60+lm) torches.
I just bought one, put the batts in and it didn't work.
Took it back.

By the time I got there the reason it didn't work was apparent..
the whole thing was too hot to hold as there was a short in it.
Good job it wasn't a 10 minute walk or things might have got serious.

Moral.. always remove the batts from faulty products.


Wow dennis lucky escape

just imagine what could have happened if you'd shoved it up your arse
before you found out

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geoff

On 06/06/2011 10:03, dennis@home wrote:
Lidl have some very bright (60+lm) torches.
I just bought one, put the batts in and it didn't work.
Took it back.

By the time I got there the reason it didn't work was apparent..
the whole thing was too hot to hold as there was a short in it.
Good job it wasn't a 10 minute walk or things might have got serious.

Moral.. always remove the batts from faulty products.

Have you grassed up Lidl to the battery police?

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