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Best flashlight?

Looking for a mini flashlight, something to put in pocket with clip, the best bang for the buck.

Suggestions?

Reply to
Charley Nukin
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Looking for a mini flashlight, something to put in pocket with clip, the best bang for the buck.

Suggestions?

Reply to
Charley Nukin

The most durable, reliable, well made flashlight I've ever had, is made by Streamlight

Reply to
RBM

Biggest bang for the buck is the free flashlight from Harbor Freight.

Reply to
HeyBub

There is no such thing in one flashlight. I like a small cheap LED. I also like a small yellow one I have with a 90 degree swivel head, black and yellow, plastic, has a clip, but the moveable head makes it nice. I have a headband Ray-O-Vac that, for $12 or so, is head and shoulders over many others that cost ten times as much. Has a LED with three brightness settings, regular bulb, and red bulb for times when you don't want a lot of light. There are as many uses for flashlights as there are flashlights. If I had to pick two, I'd get that little yellow one with the swivel head, and a cheap LED with about 12 lights. You can get them today for about $8. If you want to splurge and buy one that will last longer, go for it, but you have to figure out the actual cost based on how long it lasts. Oh, and I like the waterproof ones, plastic or metal. Check often, I have had batteries leak a lot on the smaller flashlights.

HTH

Steve

Reply to
Steve B

Charley Nukin wrote the following:

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Reply to
willshak

Costco has a 100 lumen LED flashlight that takes 3 AAA batteries, 3 flashlights for $18. The batteries are next to each other, not lengthwise, so the flashlight's pretty small.

Reply to
Shaun Eli

If you want quality (good beam, efficient battery consumption, reliable) you need to spend a couple bucks but it is well worth it. I carry a compact CREE single lithium cell on a belt holster that came with the flashlight. CREE are basically an LED on a chip and are the highest efficiency you can get. The flashlight has multiple intensities and a good regulator circuit so you get a lot of use out of the battery. I also have a velcro mount so I can use it on the bike.

Reply to
George

Mag Lites may be best, but the best deals are the 9-LED ones given out free with coupon at Harbor Freight stores. The coupons are in their newspaper inserts, sometimes magazine ads (Popular Science, Popular Mechanics, any auto magazine, Forbes, Business Week, Time, Newsweek,...). The Spanish language newspapers given out free may have the ads.

Reply to
larry moe 'n curly

The similar 6-LED Husky brand flashlights that Home Depot sold for < $10 a 6-pack were machined much better.

Reply to
larry moe 'n curly

How much light and how broad?

The numerous 3 AAA 9 LED lights put out a lot of light (enough to work in) in an even coverage. Quality varies by brand. Fits easily in a pocket. ~$2.50 at the big box stores. The Borg sells one with magnets, that is brighter than the rest, also larger.

I had a 1 AAA Dorcy (Wally World) that I liked a lot but now can't find. Aluminum housing, about $5. Very small.

Big Lots has got a "divers" 1W (I believe) light that I think takes 4 AAA. ~$9. Brightest at a distance, narrow beam. Switch is just unscrewing the light end. Long and thin.

The problem with all flashlights are the battery contacts and the switch. Some of the real cheapies are hard to unscrew.

Haven't tried the LED Maglights.

Got a lot of flashlights here! I carry a 9 LED most often. I like the broad even light.

Oh, don't get a black flashlight, hard to find in the dark!

Jeff

Reply to
Jeff Thies

Or law enforcement? If so, then the _The New Handheld X-treme Series_

When I'm rich...

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Reply to
Oren

the one that shines bright.

Reply to
Joe Carthy

Go figger. You Brtis are smart.

Reply to
Oren

Brits call them "torches".

TDD

Reply to
The Daring Dufas

Flashlights and pocket knifes. Which is best? Of all the flash lights I've got or had the kind I keep reaching for when I need one is a decent priced Krypton Bulb AA battery powered one. For me it is the right size, has a decent sized reflector, good focus, and has the right amount of light for most of the jobs I do and with a satisfactory light spectrum. Makes it a lot easier to read those small numbers than the LED lights. Fits in a back pocket easily. Buy a LED and have something like one of these and see which you wind up using the most.

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For some serious light, I like these,
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And here's my pocket knife,
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FatterDumber& Happier Moe

"FatterDumber& Happier Moe" wrote

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I have one of those, but I like the smaller one with the ninety degree head.

I like a Camillus US military issue from the sixties with can opener, screwdriver, awl, blade, and bottle opener. A beer bottle opener on a military knife. Someone was thinking.

Steve

Reply to
Steve B

Best bang for the buck is the Harbor Freight 9-led flashlight. You can't do better than FREE.

Reply to
mike

What are "signal passing airliners"?

Reply to
Sam E

Though I expect this flashlight to kick some serious butt, I have some doubt about that 100 lumens.

Lumen figures often sound to me like assuming:

  • fresh (or sometimes even better-than-fresh "ideal") batteries,
  • cooling of the LED sufficient to get the junction part of its chip down to 25 degrees C (77 degrees F) (requires the flashlight to be much cooler than room temperature),
  • 100% efficient optics.
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Don Klipstein

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