The Zanflare sounds great, and a good coupon Trevi! Bought one.
That is very cheap, which coupon? (EDIT: I read your edit)(EDIT II: I do not see 9.99, just 16.99, what did I miss?). I think for the use of the OP it is too fancy with not enough runtime, but for that price I buy one anyway
I posted quick so you can get on that deal (they tend to sell out quickly), before realizing that it would be surprising without the edit. I couldn’t believe it either before checking out to see if the coupon worked.
I couldn’t resist for that price either, so ‘buy it’ was pressed! :person_facepalming:
What a shame. Someone just posted on that (EDIT: the Gearbest deal) thread asking to get the coupon working for another country. Perhaps that can be done for NL too.
Hope you have done your math. Alkalines have such a high internal resistance that, even for an AA, a 1A discharge causes it to crumble (see it in HKJ's comparator), delivering just ≈1Ah of capacity with an average discharge voltage barely above 1V. This is just a bit above 2W of power input into the driver for a 2AA flashlight, it'll be hard for the emitter to even receive 700mA of driving current this way and that is presuming the usage of an ultra-efficient driver.
Driving flashlights with alkaline cells is usually a bad idea unless for very low powered ones and/or with lots of cells. Philistine people needs to understand this.
Maybe nothing like what you are thinking of, but the “NEBO Big Larry” work light is really excellent, very solid high quality aluminium build, strong tail magnet, quite believable 400 lumens area coverage from COB led strip. Comes with 6 AAs as well, 3 Nebo brand fitted for display, (seem good), 3 Duracells spare, have given 3 as presents, recipients delighted. In red flashing mode makes a great bright bicycle daylight rear lamp strapped on with a couple of velcros (far far too bright for nightime)
A decent small truncheon as well (just over 200 grams).
A bargain in UK Homebase for £10 which maybe is in your budget, considering x6 cells included.
This is one of those situation where you should be saying its not for a rape kit lol.
Try the Hugsby XP2 its great! They are actually really bright only draw back is that it uses 2 AAA not AA so less run time. I have measurements some where about its brightness ill look through my review now.