Nitecore P05 - Hum, I guess I was deceived by a thing on AliExpress, so I can’t confirm this can take 18350 batteries. Sorry for misleading!
Niteye - Yeah, their site is quite…empty! Maybe they are reformulating it after the Chinese New Year. Still, those 2 lights I mentioned were found in AliExpress stores. Sorry, didn’t notice I repeated the EC-R16 model! Thanks for changing it!
Solarforce L2M - Yes, it can take 18350. The original light with the 2 tubes takes a 18650; with sorther tube it takes the 18350 and 16340s as well! It seems to be a popular light around here, despite having some years already!
SS35-1 - The link of Neal’s deals is not working for me as well… I don’t know what happened. Maybe a website/ service reconfiguration as well? BTW, freeme showed a similar light here.
Sorry for not posting the links originally and thanks for this effort to put this list together
Sorry, it doesn’t take 18350s! I went to read again my initial information and my eyes didn’t read well :person_facepalming: :person_facepalming:
I hate when I do this
With all of the new tiny models released in the last few years I totally forgot about this “stalwart” flashlight when I made the list, an ever popular model when I first got deep into flashlights back around 2010 (I never ended up buying one). A timeless design, it’s remained nearly unchanged throughout the years and still available today. (I still want one!)
Probably the first “stubby” flashlight and one of the first to include 2 different tubes to accommodate multiple battery sizes 18650 / 16340 / 18350
I never gave much thought to the fact the L2M fits an 18350 as well as 16340. I’ve only recently became fascinated with the 18350 size lights, mainly due to the new Aspire / Vapcell batteries.
This was posted on M4D M4X blog yesterday: “my dear friends! Neal has some problems with his PayPal account, so i deactivated his shop until everything is working again.”
Yes i am running 18350 Keeppower in the FiTorch ER16 stock tube. However, i did have to put a small magnet on the battery for it to work.
If it had a little bigger nipple on the positive side, it would work without a magnet.
Thanks for the list of 18350 lights!
Hum, supposedly the Wuben TO10R should be a High CRI flashlight (using 16340 battery), but it doesn’t seem to be a High CRI light, as the TO46R also wasn’t.
Me and bilakos10 reviewed the TO10R recently.
Too bad it doesn’t take 18350s, as it would be a (even) better light!
I find it silly that Wuben and others, post pics of green things to demonstrate CRI… that is so wrong! What is needed is Red things. otoh, if you’re trying to hide the green tint of an XPG3, then green things are the way to go.
now look at the green tint around the edge of the beam in this Wuben photo (across the ecotec logo, on the mans sleeve, and on the battery cable cover
to test for CRI, I like to shine a light on red things, including the palm of my hand, and foods like steak and salmon.
Unfortunately, almost all the lights in this thread have green tint… and are Low CRI
I have the triple Nichia 219CT 5700k, it has absolutely no green tint and it renders the reds and colors very well. Although I’d like to try the 4000k someday.
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It’s my first High CRI flashlight, and one thing I’ve learned by it is the neutral lights (that I always thought had great color rendering) actually are just tinted light, yes the greens and browns appear better looking than with cool white, but you’re not really seeing the true colors, you’re seeing colors under a slightly yellow “Tinted” light. The Nichia shows the objects true color as you would see it in normal light. Reds, browns and greens look as they should.