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Episode: 3788
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Title: HPR3788: Nitecore Tube torch
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr3788/hpr3788.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-25 05:19:37
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This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 3,788 for Wednesday the 8th of February 2023.
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Today's show is entitled Night Accord Toop Torch.
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It is hosted by Dave Morris and is about seven minutes long.
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It carries an explicit flag.
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The summary is, I have owned, one of these for many years and find it very useful.
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Hello Hacker Public Radio, this is Dave Morris.
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I've got a short talk today which I've sort of put together in a bit of a hurry because
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we're getting so low on shows, so just as a hint to everybody, if you have any ideas
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for shows and you have the capability of making something relatively quickly, then your
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contributions will be much, much appreciated.
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Anyway, getting on with the subject, I'm talking about a torch or as other parts of
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the world call them flashlight and it's subject that came up during the recording of the
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Community News in May 2022, I'm not very quick.
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I've got an example of this particular device which is called a Night Accord.
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Night Accord seems to be a fairly productive brand because there are many different
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torches available, but this one is called the Tube and it has had it since 2016 and it's
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been fantastic.
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I've got lots of reviews all over the place, but I thought I'd just give you a quick
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overview and point you at some of the longer reviews if you're interested.
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Version I have is the Night Accord Tube version 1 which I don't think is available anymore,
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at least it's not on Amazon, there's version 2 which is about the same price and should
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be just as good.
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There's a photo of the little torch against a ruler on the Imperial side so it's a little
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bit over two inches long.
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I bought this on Amazon and after seeing Big Clives YouTube channel where he did a video
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about it and it was under ten pounds at that point and I haven't tried the version
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2 but I will maybe do so at some point in time.
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It's a small plastic body torch with fittings for a key ring.
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I've not been keen on the idea of putting on a key ring because things on key rings tend
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to get bashed by the keys, not that I have a huge lot of keys but they are in a pocket
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and tend to get rattled about a lot so I keep this one in my shirt pocket.
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There's a little rubber like, some substance that feels like rubber on the top of it when
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I say the top, I mean the flat side.
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It's actually quite a narrow device, it's got enough width that you can hold it easily
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and it's got a button in the middle of one of the flat sides which is just down from
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the LED that does the business.
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It has a micro USB port on the edge which is also covered by one of these rubbery caps
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which you can easily move to one side and plug a USB cable in.
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When it's charging, there's a blue LED inside the body of the torch which lets you know
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what's happening and turns off when charging is complete, nothing very exciting there.
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There's a whole, I'm surprised how many functions are in these things, there shouldn't be
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really.
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So there'll be a micro controller or something in there which is doing it but a single
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press turns the low light level on and off.
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It's just enough to see way around in a darkened area, darkened room.
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It doesn't carry very far but it's fine if you're not wanting to turn the lights on in
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your house at night and you're moving around for whatever reason.
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If you do a double press, it turns on the permanent high level mode which is quite a lot
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more powerful and it's really quite good that you can see a lot with that in the dark.
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If you do a single press and hold for more than one second, you get a temporary high
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mode and then if you press and hold when in low mode it increases in brightness in steps
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and you press and hold for more than five seconds when it's in high mode and it'll lock
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the torch against accidental button pressures and presses the light blinks to show that it's
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locked and then just press and hold to return to normal.
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I'd played with this but I don't use it because in a shirt pocket it doesn't get a lot
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of bumps and bashes so it tends not to suffer from being switched on accidentally.
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So I don't use this torch a huge amount, it's not a thing that I'm trolling around
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the outside with very much but the fact that it's in my pocket means I have a source of
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quite bright light when I need one.
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The lower light level as I said before is good for moving around in the dark or in a gloomy
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place.
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The brighter level I tend to use to read labels on jars, bottles and other containers.
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I think it's probably my age and my eyes that are letting me down here because I cannot
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deal with labels on things where they're quite small to start with, the writing's very
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small and they use weird coloring like a dull orange lettering on a purple background
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over it and down here.
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Another sort of maroon purple orange on maroon is so similar.
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If I illuminate it with this bright thing I can read it, otherwise no chance.
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I could hold it under a light I guess but the lighting in my house is not bright enough
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to hurt for me to see it.
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So the night court is my savior as I say in the notes when dealing with this sort of
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thing.
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The other thing does pass it to my kids and say can you read that but it's not, I won't
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be very popular if I keep doing that.
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I don't charge it very often because it's not getting a hell of a lot of use but it's
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easy to do with the phone charger.
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I have several micro USB cables around and lots of these charging plugs that I used over
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the years for phones and MP3 players and whatever so it's well able to cope with that.
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So yeah so my conclusion is that this is great little device.
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I have other torches for when I need stronger more broadly illuminating the light source but
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I wouldn't be carrying these around, they're bulky things, they wouldn't be in my pocket
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all the times what I mean.
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The night court is small and compact enough like keep it on me at all times and if I lost
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this one or it died I'm pretty sure I'd get another similar nature and this brand I find
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is good and reliable and quite well made.
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So there's a bunch of links in the notes which if you're interested you can go and look
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at quite a lot of big clive links and a very detailed review of the device so if it's
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of interest you I hope you find them useful.
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Ok then that's it, bye bye.
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