nice! if you get 20% off of the item, and 50% off shipping, then you save a total of $4.49 !!!!

 

Well, that's exactly my point. You only need it when you need to see something at night and there is no other light. If you have killed the battery by repeated discharging and charging, and you do not know if it is charging because you never flip up the ashtray cover to see if the charge light is on while you are driving, then it might very well be dead when you go to use it.

Couldn't I just buy a small flashlight with a long life battery and led light and leave it in my glovebox? Kind of like I've been doing for the last ten or fifteen years. Oh, and whenever I go into the glovebox to get something out, I am reminded to see if my little flashlight battery is still good.

No doubt this light is really neat, but if the battery will be dead when I need it, do I really need this flashlight? Remember the story about how the U.S. spent millions to develop a pen which would write in zero gravity, and the Russians just used pencils.

If, otoh, the battery does not discharge when the car is off, meaning it does not charge every time I drive, then I am so there, and will get a bunch for myself and family.

 

I'd never heard that, but that's awesome. It's always the simplest things...

 

Just wondering if there is enough room to close the cover if I pull the flashlight up, after it is fully charged, so the bottom no longer touched the element and the flashlight does not charge/discharge as I drive/park?

 

Something to watch-out for when buying for others, make sure they have a standard sized cigarette-lighter. I bought one for my wife's MDX, but it will not work as the "Power Outlet" as it's called in the Acura is to large.

 

It's a fun story that could have easily been true, but it's not:

http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp

 

Actually, the story is true. Your site is really chapter two, or three, in the history. Chapter one starts when supersonic air force pilots found that normal ball point pens would not write as the atmosphere thined and gravity was reduced. In order to make notes, the pilots switched to pencils and the air force requested funds to develop a pressurized ball point pen. A number of engineers and pen companies began to develop such a pen, hoping to recoup their development costs from the air force funds. Parker pen started such a project, and Paul Fischer was a Parker engineer. However, before anyone could perfect the design, the air force's supersonic program was over.

Paul Fischer left Parker, I assume for other reasons, and started his own pen company. He wanted to perfect the pressurized pen, and by the time he did so NASA was now in need of such a pen. I am pretty sure NASA paid a lot more than the $15 I pay for my Bullet space pens.

 

pretty damn cool. thats one of the biggest things i miss from my BMW is they supplied flash lights that plugged into the glove box.

 

hmm i would get one but thats where i plug in my radar detector

 

Hardwire the radar. Looks clean too!

 

Kewl, just ordered one.

 

please show me how to do this... i have a Passport 8500 X50

thanks!!

 

http://www.invisicord.com/index.html

 

just got mine today. that thing is BRIGHT! (i got black)
it has 3 settings, on, charge, and off. so you choose when it charges.
you CAN leave this in your CLA and NOT have it charging.

 

ordered a black one just now also!