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Flashlights?

MB5

One of the Regulars
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Oregon
My EDC is a River Rock 1AA light.
I keep a NightStar CS shake light in my auto emergency kit.
 
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Germany
I grabbed the Fenix TK 16 (v2.0) on a special offer in electronic chain store, today. Too hot offer to let it slip, 60 instead 100 bucks. :p

I would say, it's indeed an impressive little machine!
Of course the 3.100 lumens MAX is gadget for the youngsters, but altogether this handy flashlight is a nice, powerful allround.
Not for the kiddie hands, it's not a toy.

It comes with a pocket clip, a holster and a lanyard, in case you need that.
The industrial lithium accu is replacable.

3.100 lumens
1.000 lumens
350 lumens
150 lumens (my favorite!)
30 lumens


+ stroboscope
 

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Ernest P Shackleton

One Too Many
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Midwest
I can't believe how expensive flashlights are. Not necessarily a complaint, but geez. One of my relatives has a kid in the navy, and they get most of their X-mas presents at their PX. Gave this cool flashlight as a present...cool enough that I wanted one for myself...until I priced it. I think it was around $100? Can't remember the maker or model right now.

I appreciate all these special batteries and charging options etc, but really, if a flashlight needs more than one normal AA battery, I'm not interested. And I really don't need all these beam options. The last thing I need is a strobe.

I use one of these, and I like it well enough. Solid little reliable flashlight. Complaints are 1) it's water resistant and can handle a quick washing, but it wouldn't be able to handle long exposure to water. 2) get rid of the strobe and leave it at a simple high/low beams 3) far too many places to hold grease and dirt. absolutely not necessary to have all the cuts in the metal casing. But for less than $5, it's good.

 

Olumin

Familiar Face
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Location
EU
I can't believe how expensive flashlights are. Not necessarily a complaint, but geez. One of my relatives has a kid in the navy, and they get most of their X-mas presents at their PX. Gave this cool flashlight as a present...cool enough that I wanted one for myself...until I priced it. I think it was around $100? Can't remember the maker or model right now.

I appreciate all these special batteries and charging options etc, but really, if a flashlight needs more than one normal AA battery, I'm not interested. And I really don't need all these beam options. The last thing I need is a strobe.

I use one of these, and I like it well enough. Solid little reliable flashlight. Complaints are 1) it's water resistant and can handle a quick washing, but it wouldn't be able to handle long exposure to water. 2) get rid of the strobe and leave it at a simple high/low beams 3) far too many places to hold grease and dirt. absolutely not necessary to have all the cuts in the metal casing. But for less than $5, it's good.

The cuts are for heat sinking, they increase surface area for cooling. But on that light its unnecessary as it wouldn't ever get hot enough.

If you want simple and reliable you can take a look at this one.
I would personally recommend going with the high CRI option and also getting the tail switch with it.
 
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@Ernest P Shackleton
I'm with you on small EDC flashlights should always be driven by international standard AA or AAA batteries! My Fenix E01 Blue is on my key chain and uses one AAA battery.

These small EDC beasts today bring 5, 30 and 100 lumens, with a range up to 50+ meters, Jesus!
 

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Ernest P Shackleton

One Too Many
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The cuts are for heat sinking, they increase surface area for cooling. But on that light its unnecessary as it wouldn't ever get hot enough.

If you want simple and reliable you can take a look at this one.
I would personally recommend going with the high CRI option and also getting the tail switch with it.
Thanks for the link. I wasn't aware of that one. $75 for a flashlight rig is beyond my needs though. nevertheless, I will bookmark it.
 
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Actually, my new Fenix Tk16 v2.0 works totally reliable. But my favorite setting is still the 150 Watt!

I'm still on the second battery load.
 

TLW '90

Practically Family
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I carry this little brass AAA lumintop light.
It's been in my pocket everyday for almost 3 years now without issue, and I've dropped it more times than I can count.
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At about 80 lumens on high it's not crazy bright, but it's simple / reliable with only 3 brightness modes, and the extremely warm high CRI NITCHIA 219c led is amazing.

I can't stand those ugly tactical modern lights that look like a lightsaber handle and are overly complicated with too many modes including strobe and SOS...etc.
I don't need the mode memory or any of that either, just cycle through the 3 modes and always back to mode #1 every time.


These were / are made by lumintop for a company called Massdrop ( just drop now I guess) and I think they cost about $50 if I remember correctly, not as cheap as the twist head equivalents from lumintop ( like the maratac offerings ) but not particularly expensive either.
 
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rogueclimber

Practically Family
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Marina del Rey
Though I am a firm believer in Rule #9 (Never go anywhere without a knife)

A flashlight is a much more useful tool to always have on hand

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My Oveready BOSS 70 Ti
I have it set to open at 15 lumens with the ability to jump it up to 500. It also has a bounce-back feature; when it lights up against something (say in your pocket) it drops into amber mode which generates no heat, preventing a possible burn/fire

This also has a custom clip from Steel Flame
 

Cuvier

One of the Regulars
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Location
Texas
I like small cheap lights. Especially rechargeable or at least ones that use AA batteries. My usual is an Olight i5t eos. Palm sized and fairly bright. I'm not sure about the lumens off hand. It's been a constant companion and has proven itself to be worth the price. It's crawled under houses with me, helped changed tires in midnight storms and survived being dropped down a few flights of stairs. It's also inconspicuous enough to be acceptable with whatever I'm wearing.
 

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