What is Your Favorite 1xAAA Light?

+1 for the Jet U
I have the E21a version in three different colour temps. Love them!

Loved my Jetbeam Jet - u on my keychain, but it stopped working after a year. Got myself a Nitecore TIP as replacement, which is an even better keychainlight in my opinion. The Lumintop Ant (stainless steel with tritium in the Tail) ist also very awesome, but that beauty is just to shiny for edc.

It is not nice to judge or to condemn a person because of his physical needs (wish things were different).
Talk to you again when you are my age.

Seems just silly that you didn’t just add “for me” to the end of your statement thats all I bet?

There are plenty of us that find an aaa light useful and plenty that carry one for this every day so to make the blanket statement like you seem too at first is a little short sighted to me,that is how I read it at least.

TheMicrostream is a great example here,many carry this light and it is all that they need,they are rugged and have a huge following for that and the simple operation and great clip that allows it to be useful for many.

These are not bright enough for my main light but I still carry a lot of them because I can and can also easily find an aaa cell anywhere.

I like the ET D25aaa a lot,it is small and sold in a 219b and has a nice moonlight,magnet and workable clip and mine have been indestructable too!

My old ITP AAA one mode .

Working since 2010 .

PKDL-PL2 . To paraphrase Burt Gummer, It’s my ” backup, backup” light. :slight_smile:
Low tests about 17.5 hours on a L92. With the Benvelo diy headband holder it’s proved very useful.I pair it with a ancient Tekna for company.

can you share a photo of where the pencil lead needs to be applied to fix the NMM in the Ti3?

since I found a lube that works with Titanium threads (google munky spunk) I like my original Titanium Ti3 much better. IF the presently shipping version, on Amazon, did not now have NMM I could recommend it as a host for a Nichia

I agree the Tools w eSwitch are nice, but I dont know of any available w 219b anymore… There is one advertised on ebay, but they are using old ad copy and actually ship with 219c. They are MLH.

The Copper Tool w eSwitch on Drop is LMH, with a 219c, which is considerably greener than the 219b that is NLA

The TiTool is very elegant, but, I dislike touching the brass ring, it gets hotter than the rest of the light, when using High mode.

The High modes on the Tools only have 30 minute runtimes now, they used to be more efficient. The Medium and Low modes are still efficient, and using High mode for long is a quick way to run out of batteries in an AAA.

My perfect AAA is a Copper Tool w eSwitch and a Nichia 219b swap.

when I want smaller, I like the MLH Maratac Copper AAA (it now ships w 219c, same as the Lumintop Tools that Drop sells, I prefer the earlier 219b versions, or an LED swap to sw45k)

Preon2 pocket clip, available on ebay, on my Copper tool

Manker E02 - My round the house light. The extremely low moonlight modes are perfect in pitch black

Dunno if I could call it my “favorite”, but I’m using the Aider/Ultratac AAA doodad most, out of all my AAA lights, mainly to burn down moribund AAA cells before they start fizzing and leaking.

I’m bummin’.

Easily a third of my lights are AAA (some smaller).

Now I’m sad that they are not useful. * sniff *

I bought 2 yesterday —- one was a Tool AAA CU —— :stuck_out_tongue:

In case somebody is thinking I hate AAA lights. You’re wrong. This is part of my collection. I’m quite certain there’s more of them. Somewhere. And the rest I have given away. As I said earlier: they make nice gifts.

But with my eyesight, their usefulness is rather limited. To me. Thanks for all the “funny” remarks about that.
As you can see, I’m having a hard time focussing properly.

BTW: the tall one on the right is proof of life. That is the Tribute to Old Lumens light CRX gave me.
The little one on the very left is the Ultrafire UF-T1 I was referring to before.

nice photo
my eyes are old too
my used less lights are on the bottom… :wink:

after my aaa phase, I ventured into 16340 and presently have upgraded to 18350

the copper tool w eswitch, sw45k, and captive clip is my tour de force in aaa

Nice to notice that not everybody is into black. :smiley:
At the moment my needs when modding items are upgraded to a 14500 on the brim of my cap.

Though there are two AAA lights that are still very useful for me. Hanging a Playfox K1 or Fenix Liplight on the collar of my dog prevents me from tripping and breaking my neck over her when we make our evening walk.

Lately I’ve found myself mostly skipping over new lights if they’re only available in black, unless there’s some compelling technological feature or something.

I don’t use my AAA lights as much anymore, like Jon I have transitioned to my D4 with and 18350. But I’m going backpacking with my wife for a few days, and the one light I’m bringing is my Ti-3. Clipped to the brim of my visor, its a great headlamp, and I typically only use moonlight or the 10 lumen mode. The lithium primary has 3+ weeks of backpacking on it already, guessing I’ll get another 5 nights no problem. Weight with battery and clip 19g.

agree!
HatLamp clip option is a priority feature for me, and I like aspheric beams for HeadLamp applications when prepping, cooking, and eating food at camp

in aaa I favor the Sofirn C01 w Yuji 5600k
in 16340 I like the Klarus Mi1C aspheric w hat clip, modded to N219b 4500k

here are a couple more hatlights… a maratac aaa w sw45k, and a 16340 Utorch w NW xp-l

oh, and here is my favorite ad for an AAA light, click pic… same yuji beam option as the C01

Tain Ottovino v3
The 219b 4000k is sweet.

@jonslider, I did compare my C01s with my Ti-3. The 3200K one is tempting, I may bring that one also? My 5600K seems a bit dim compared to the Ti-3, although I like the color. Decisions . . .

I agree the 3200 is a great option in the tent, nice ambiance
and agree the 5600 is a bit dim except sitting at a table, so also agree the Ti3 is most versatile

nice choices!:slight_smile:

except, the Ti3 is Not High CRI

dont you have one of those 219c right angle mankers with programmable firefly?

have a great campout!