Ron Brown

The Amazing 2000-hour Flashlight Ron Brown

Publisher Marketing: "The Amazing 2000-Hour Flashlight" shows how to add a 30-cent resistor to a $5 flashlight and create a light that produces useful illumination for 2000 hours on the same battery. Detailed instructions. 54 illustrations. A half-hour project. No soldering required! The standard for "useful light" is defined and various lights compared to it. Brand names and part numbers and where to buy them (Home Depot, Radio Shack, etc.) are all identified. Related topics include bypassing the resistor, rechargeable batteries, and how to substitute other battery sizes. "Don't be afraid of the dark," we chide our children. "Don't be a 'fraidy cat." Really? An underground parking garage in a blackout is intimidating. Getting the right prescription out of the medicine closet in the dark will make a 'fraidy cat out of anybody. Delivering a baby in the dark is life-and-death. But you can take control. For a very small sum you can have a flashlight that runs for weeks at a time on the same battery. What do they say? Do it now while it's fresh in your mind. Two free bonuses are included: (1) a chapter from "Lanterns, Lamps & Candles" (a different book on lighting by the same author) and (2) a chapter from "The Prepper's Guide to Food Storage" by Gaye Levy (proprietor of the Web site Backdoor Survival).

Contributor Bio:  Levy, Gaye Gaye Levy grew up and attended school in the Greater Seattle area, graduating from the University of Washington. She spent many years as an executive in the telecommunications software industry and later as a CFO to emerging technology and service companies. While still working in her chosen field, Gaye abandoned city life and moved to a serenely beautiful rural area on San Juan Island in NW Washington State. Recognizing the risks of being in a remote area served primarily by Washington State ferries, she soon realized that a disaster of any type, be it natural or man-made, would soon leave her community cut off from goods and supplies from the mainland for days or even weeks. As a result, she learned everything she could about living a preparedness lifestyle and began the process of acquiring goods and skills which would allow her and her family to survive on their own for an extended period of time and without the need for outside assistance. Gaye teaches the principles of preparedness and a self-reliant lifestyle through emergency preparation and disaster planning at her website BackdoorSurvival.com. As a blogger, she shares her nuts-and-bolts knowledge and common sense perspective in a way which is non-intimidating, friendly and easy to understand. Gaye's emphasis is on prepping for the mainstream while doing so with compassion for others and optimism for a positive outcome, no matter what. In her spare time, Gaye and her husband are avid ballroom dancers and enjoy hiking, kayaking, gardening and living life to the fullest along with their dog, Tucker, in their island home along the shores of San Juan Island in Washington State.