Astrolux single AA light?

I personally find the Revtronic and the Moonlake lights great for backup. If only it’s priced a lot less, these lights will probably sell more.

Agree, while I have a lot more 18650 lights, I only keep a AA lights in the car glove box. AA are available nearly everywhere from your local gas station to dollar stores.

Agreed. Though I have to say I absolutely love my Jetbeam Jet-I MK. Yes, it has a not-so-good (meaning “bad”) clip. And it’s a twisty (though a good twisty). And the tint is cool. I’d love it even more if it had a high CRI emitter and a better clip, but it’s still my favorite EDC at the moment.

I’ve been hoping that On the Road might jump into the fray and put out a great, affordable AA / 14500 model in the same way they hit the budget 16340 space with their M3. I doubt if they’d put a 219C in it, but we can pray.

Or Astrolux? Manker? Whoever it is, someone should put out a great, moderately priced AA / 14500 torch with a high CRI emitter soon. I’d buy three of them.

I agree. 18650 lights may have great chip in them, higher output and other cool things, but nothing can beat a good old single AA tail clicky for emergency situations.

+1

I just remembered this one:

http://www.sbflashlights.com/L3-Illumination/L3-Illumination-L11C-Nichia-219B-p373.html

Ticks most boxes, apart from price.

(Can’t remember why I never ordered one…)

Why the tail-clicky, if you don’t mind my asking?

I’m happy with my twisty Jet 1 and modded MiniM*g, etc., and tail-clicky WK50. Well, the switch on the WK50 kinda bites. I guess given those 3, 2 twisties win out over the 1 clicky.

For a small form-factor, a twisty is (to me) a bit lot easier to handle.

Could you use this for blackouts? Docooler Outdoor Solar Powered LED Spotlight Lamp 6 LEDs For Pool Use- Amazon.com

The charger part and the light part have a 10’ cable between them, so it would be good to prevent total darkness in some central part of the house, for bathroom visits and general moving around without need of a flashlight, just run the cable through a window with the charger portion outdoors, it also uses a single AA battery.

And advice I give to people about that: keep the AAs outside the light (eg, scotch-taped to the side) in case they leak, and have a spare (set) also kept separately. Nasty nasty nasty when alkies leak inside a light, and then grow fur and solidify. :stuck_out_tongue:

To make it easier and neater to keep your alkalines separate from your light, these 4aa cases do the trick, some places also sell cases for 2aa, or 4 and 2 aaa cases.
https://www.fasttech.com/products/0/10001929/5130500-4-aa-aaa-14500-10440-pp-battery-protective

I avoid alkaline batteries as much as I can. Low Self Discharge Nimh is the way to go for me. Much cheaper on the long run and they don’t leak.

To my feature list I would also add micro-USB charging port.
Olight S15R was charging only 14500 as far as I remember. Don’t recall anything that could charge eneloop inside the flashlight. And it’s not budget…and bad tint…and not a tail clicky.

Wish Neal was still here… Then we would know that at least they would read it and consider it.

But if this is picked up (by Astrolux, or even ‘Zanflare’), I hope they understand that succes of a new budget AA light is 99% related to an efficient boost driver with good user interface. Using a run-of-the-mill chinese AA driver with low efficiency, low frequency PWM and bad modes and spacing will make it another so so light at most useful as a host. Examples: Manker understood it well, they have developed some great drivers for their AA lights (but personally I do not like the designs and they are too expensive to be budget), and Thorfire did not get it (the TG06 is a very nice design IMO, but it has a very disappointing driver).

Maybe we could ask the producer of the sign fire blf 348 edition to a,key just the same light for aa batteries would be a great thing

It was suggested, a blf-348 AA would be ground-breaking.

I don’t understand there’s not a whole series.
They should make AA and 18650 versions too i.m.o.
The design is pure and very simple, people love it.

Am I the only one who wants a Kronos 14500 tube light? :frowning:

Depends on what it’s gonna cost. :slight_smile:

I was interested in this, but I have found some relates claiming that the L10’s and L11’s will break very easily if dropped. I guess the solder points will break in impact because the body is not well designed, something like that. I’m having a lot of trouble finding a good 1xAA.

I agree. The BLF348’s I’ve gifted are well-loved and well-used. There’s a market open and waiting for at least a AA/14500 version of this light. Neal is already being sorely missed- he was good at making things like this happen.

Phil