Brightest AAA or AA Penlight?

Who makes a good solid AA or AAA penlight that is really bright and floody? I just got a red Thorfire PF04 today and am a little surprised how much it lights up my garden at only 210 lumens. Motivates me to find other floody penlights that are even brighter.

i have acebeam pt10 that can do 360 lumen with 2*aaa batteries

Thanks mrheosuper. Is the beam all flood on the pt10?

Zanflare F3. Fairly floody. 150 lumens. $20 Canadian. Don’t know if that’s a good deal or not.

Sometimes people call a single AAA light a pen light but I've always thought a real penlight has 2 AAA batteries .

I like the O pen best since it's pretty sexy and looks like areal pen . I also like the IYP365 nichia lumintop ..both are floody but not crazy bright .

This is an interesting question to pose. I’d like to know what answers BLF can come up with as well. I didn’t know about the Acebeam PT10. I’ll have to look it up now. :sunglasses: :+1:

EDIT: Looks like it has been around a while already. Here’s a BLF review by member Budda from 2016.

EDIT AGAIN: Looks like I wouldn’t like the UI of the PT10. :confounded:
From the review:

I thought an AA battery was once called a penlight…
Maybe just here in NL, dunno…

My brightest 1x AAA light (on Alkaleaks or NiMH) is the Manker E02.
Don’t know the numbers, but it’s impressive.

…but is it a pen light, when it’s an angle light…?? :disguised_face:

Boaz, do you know where O’Pen can still be bought? I thought they were discontinued a couple years ago.

Klarus P20 is rated at 230 lm. Beam intensity is 1059 cd, so it’ll be more floody than your Thorfire PF04 (2200 cd).
Nichia 219C emitter as well.

I have a couple Preon 4Sevens versions of the O’Pen, one is always on my desk. I gifted a few family with the O’Pen in orange and bronze. Very classy looking penlights.

Okay, so it’s about pen shaped lights.
I ordered this recently:
https://www.gearbest.com/chargers/pp_009137536824.html
Not the brightest, i’m sure… Can’t even write…

I have no idea what it says or how old the ad is, butt….
O’pen for 180,00 RON

I have Sofirn SF02 in red. It should have 300 lumens. I do not know how much she really does. It’s actually shining more than my other Thorfire PF04.

https://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/Penlight-Mini-LED-Flashlight-Torch-3-modes-Pocket-light-EDC-flashlights-led-zaklamp-high-quality-Cree/2933049_32798591360.html

I have the Olight, 47’s, thorfire and lumintop, all good chices with good output although the first 2 are no longer made. The olight gets extremely hot on high to the point where you have to change modes or turn off. Lumintop has a nice metal clickie.

That's nice as I ordered two red SF02's yesterday when they were on sale! Ordered two SF13 too and they use 2 x AA.

xpl-hd and small reflector, you shouldn’t expect throwing from this light
there is hotspot but not much

Nice looking light but I can't find a deal on it anyway. Acebeam seems to force their prices always high. One of the reasons

I never bought one yet.

Zebralight has some models, that bring 500ish lumens from Eneloop: SC5w, SC5c. Sc5w says 3 min@550 lumens, then stepdown to 407 lumens, total of 30 min runtime.
I am tempted to get one of these though the price is steep.

That Sc5W is very tempting but that price is a little steep. Still, amazing they can get those lumens from one AA.

Ended up ordering the P20. Never had a Nichia before and specs say 5000K so I may like it hopefully.