PELICAN FLASHLIGHTS Molded Polymer vs Metal

Important Comparison Facts between Molded Polymer Resin Lights and Metal Lights.

Pelican"s lightweight Polymer Resin flashlights offer a tough, reliable, and powerful lighting solution.  Pelican’s resin bodied flashlights have the added benefit of being certified safe in hazardous environments, as well as in all temperatures.  Metal flashlights, by their design, can not be certified by recognized agencies because of the obvious conductive metal sparking danger.  Pelican angular bodied flashlights do not roll around like the typical round metal flashlight.  Pelican’s patented automatic hydrogen gas purge valves add an extra level of safety. These resin bodied flashlights will outlast metal flashlights because they are corrosion proof inside and out.  The final benefit of Polymer Resin bodied flashlights is the reduction of lawsuits due to liability caused by bodily injury.  These lighting instruments are ideal for law enforcement, fire protection agencies, and the military.  Virtually unbreakable, they can withstand the roughest usage. 

Polymer Resin bodied flashlights have come a long way from the old, fragile, “dinosaur” metal flashlights that were heavy, awkward, bulky and often unsafe.  Pelican’s new flashlights are tough, easy to handle, lightweight, convenient and safe.  Most of all they are reliable, especially in hazardous conditions and, of course, unconditionally guaranteed for life.

Polymer Resin flashlights are typically more resistant to damage caused by exposure to weather or chemicals.  When compared with metal flashlights Pelican flashlights resist the heat and cold of the environment.  The structural foam molded resins used by Pelican were originally developed by NASA as temperature extreme resistant lightweight antenna stiffener.   The sandwich wall construction (consisting of tiny gas filled spheres between solid resin outside walls) actually acts as a thermal barrier similar to a cooler chest.  Unlike metal (which quickly absorbs and transmits the cold), resin flashlights are not cold to the touch in freezing weather.  The skin of a person’s hand will not stick to the resin body in subzero temperatures as it will with metal bodied flashlights.  Just as resin

flashlights do not quickly absorb the cold, structurally molded flashlights also do not absorb extreme heat as quickly.  Consequently, not only are Polymer Resin bodied flashlights cool to the touch in extremely high temperature environments, the batteries contained within the flashlight are not quickly degraded by the cold outside temperature (as is the case with a metal flashlight).  If the flashlight is so cold that it burns the skin or is so hot it cannot be handled, then it is a hindrance and is of little use.

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