Moonlight Mode Champions?

Lately, I have been finding myself researching a lot of lights with long (advertised) running moonlight modes. I am curious as to what lights others have that advertise very long runtimes in moonlight/firefly mode.

Some of mine:
Thrunite Neutron 2C - .5 lumen - 49 days
Olight M2R Pro - 1 lumen - 50 days
Armytek Tiara C1 - .4 lumen - 60 days

I know some of these light levels are not terribly impressive, but they give enough light to perform basic functions like navigating around the house, tent, camper etc, or reading when close up. I have been using these at night around the house and I have found them very useful for certain activities.

Any others I should research?

zebralight is the king of moonlight . It can run for months

I second Zebralight. Also, Jetbeam RRT-01, magnetic control ring. Insane how low you can get!

Third for the Zebralight and, xevious is spot on. That RRT-01 can get, you think it’s actually off, kind of low.

fourth for Zebralight, King of Low. but there are also some others…

for AA and AAA… Thrunite Ti3 is very very low… Manker e02 and e03 can be programmed in their Moon and Firefly Modes… I like the Astrolux A01 as well, but not as super low as the ti3. Good night light.

and most Anduril lights can get pretty low, too. Wizard Pro also has a very low firefly mode.

Zebralight, don’t look anywhere else. There’s a guy on Reddit that has been running a SC62w for more than a year now, as a test!

In each of my kids room i ceiling bounce a sc62w for their night light and it runs continuously. I swap the 18650s out every 2-3 months ish, i loose track. +1 zebralight.

Skilhunt M150 has the specs:
14500 battery - 0.2 lumens - 50 days
Ni-MH battery - 0.2 lumens - 55 days

Didn’t have the time to test it for that whole time, but if it corresponds to the truth, it is a long runtime to be considered !!!

I don’t know that it’s winning any awards, but my favorite and most used moonlight mode light for the past coupla years is the Reylight Pineapple Mini.

Officially rated at 0.1 lumen for 50hrs on AAA. Always end up grabbing the cell and topping it off with my other Eneloops every few months before it ever actually dies.

I doubt anything can stand up against QTC lights in such benchmark. Not in advertisments but in real life.

Zebralights…I’ve read somewhere here of someone having their ZL on for a year.

Reylight mini Pineapple has a pretty sweet moonlight mode

Pretty expensive nightlight. :smiley:

Reylight Pineapple, Zebralight and a build with the H17F driver.

Zebralight used to be the king of moonlight mode with their 0.01lm lowest low mode.

Now they’ve raised it to 0.07lm because they think nobody needs 0.01lumens (wrong). The difference between the two is big.

The current moonligh mode champion will be a 2000K Nichia E21A modded Wizard Pro with a firefly of 0,02 lumens. That combined with a much more difused optic means it will beat the crap out of a Mk IV Zebralight when it comes to super low modes.

When did they make this change? I have an SC64 LE and I’m now wondering what the lowest low on mine really is… :weary:

Is your goal longest runtime or lowest output?

The RRT-01 goes extremely low, but my understanding is the driver overhead uses far more power than the LED at those levels. As a result, it’s great for people who demand minimal lighting, but not for ultra-long runtime.

You’ve got more than one? And use ’em for that? If you ever feel like parting ways with one, let me know :wink:

I recall discussion of the old Arc AAAs, which drop to moonlight when the battery’s near exhausted. Maker Gransee recommended that if anyone really needed the light to leave it on continuously rather than turning it off and back on later thinking to save the battery — because powering up the driver sucked so much power compared to just keeping the LED glowing.