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.
(Canāt remember why I never ordered oneā¦)
Why the tail-clicky, if you donāt mind my asking?
Iām 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 10ā 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. 
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 donāt leak.
To my feature list I would also add micro-USB charging port.
Olight S15R was charging only 14500 as far as I remember. Donāt recall anything that could charge eneloop inside the flashlight. And itās not budgetā¦and bad tintā¦and not a tail clicky.
Wish Neal was still hereā¦ Then we would know that at least they would read it and consider it.
But if this is picked up (by Astrolux, or even āZanflareā), 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 donāt understand thereās 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? 
Depends on what itās gonna cost. 
I was interested in this, but I have found some relates claiming that the L10ās and L11ās 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. Iām having a lot of trouble finding a good 1xAA.
I agree. The BLF348ās Iāve gifted are well-loved and well-used. Thereās 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
I gave 2 SingFire 348s away to normal people (lol) and they carry it every day. :+1:
The Astrolux S3 should have a AA/14500 version.
This is my favorite AA/14500 light. My EDC most often. Iāve bought 3 since I canāt seem to stop loosing them. Nice size and warm tint.
http://m.banggood.com/Cree-XP-G2-R5-Brass-5-Mode-AA-Mini-LED-Flashlight-p-947696.html