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:
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.
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.
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.
I got a couple to burn off an assload of AAs. Once my TK4A is done with them (and hopefully before any cells start taking a dump inside it), I’ll pull them and “pair” the cells to go into the ’13 (and oddballs go into my SP10). Once I pretty much get a 1-mode light (ie, all modes are about the same measly brightness), then the cells take turns going onto Bobofett II in nightlight-mode until even that doesn’t light up.
But, with new alkaleaks, and especially eneloops, the ’13 is nice’n’bright.