Amazon Deal Alerts & Discussion Thread

One amazon reviewer reported they were more like 2000mah and were all close to each other in capacity.

Yeh, you can get cheap but decent commodity cells in that range. I bought a bunch “genuine LiitoKala” [snort] cells for like 2½ bux a pop when gifting some lights. They all clocked in on-the-money, no complaints.

I thought they were Native Americans now ? I can’t keep up with all the political correctness going around these days

B’harni help me, but there’s a vipon for a 2pak of “wdtpro” zoomies w/ holsters, 10bux → 5bux.

They look too “3D” to be rolled-Al-foil like my AT01 fiasco, so they might make not-suck-too-bad hosts for kicking around.

And again, that’s two-fitty each per light + holster + 3×AAA holder + 18650 sleeve.

Wotdahell, I’ll bite.

Link to Lightbringer’s find.
https://www.vipon.com/product/7779044-WdtPro
https://www.amazon.com/Tactical-Flashlight-Holster-WdtPro-Flashlights/dp/B0819CNQJJ
I already have a few zoomies that need to be modded, so I’ll probably sit this one out.

Good find LB!!! I was out last night with a friend that asked me about a “couple” of cheap zoomers for his cabin which is off grid (a party house out on a farm actually). I also needed a few more bucks for free shipping in Amazon… Bang! Done! :+1: :beer:

I don’t get what they mean by High Lumen.
Is it 50, 500, 5000, 5M???

It’s a Mystery to me.

(Ha! See what I did there?)

Just got delivery of one pack of the $5 Zoomies.

About 300 lemons w 18650 is best guess, similar to a good (old well built) SK68.
Real nice clear lens and don’t see any nasty artifacts when zoomed it.
Zoom action is very firm, no slop city. Worst part of build would be pressed in switch which is par for the course at this level but the switch works well, all that matters.
Nasty slow PWM on low as to be expected but overall am damn happy with the purchase.
The carry pouch is nicely padded and better webbing then most in the $3-5 range just for the pouch.

She resets to high after 10 seconds so that is good also.
Very clean matte finish and packed well, definitely good stocking stuffers for muggles.

Thanks Lightbringer for the heads up!

Kewl.

Balls, mine are scheduled to arrive this Moonday.

Ordered it last night right at 9pm when the codes became available again and it arrived here at 3:18pm today.
Have a couple Amazon distribution centers near me so it is bliss sometimes.
Later

Ya very funny! :expressionless:
Anywho, I wanted to know the lumens as I have similar secret military tactical flashlights like these below, different brand but same lights:

They claim high lumen (90000) :smiley: but no idea and no way to measure.
Some claim 1000 lumens. Anyone here have these and measured?
I guess they would be at least 300 lumen using 18650 batteries.

There are crap lights, and then there are Super Crap lights.

The “Tac-Lights” aren’t too horrible. Soft-touch switch, driver-in-tail, maybe 300lm or so, never bothered to check actual brightness. Mum got one of those :person_facepalming: and it eats AAAs for lunch. Cycles through allllllll the modes, even strobe, just to turn it off.

Then again, there are Super Crap ones out there, no doubt.

It’s from Vont so probably not too bad.
They had 40% coupon.

https://www.amazon.com/Vont-Flashlight-Flashlights-Water-resistant-Accessories/dp/B089T8HDBV

I agree with Lightbringer...

They're crap lights.

If Vont makes these lights, I don't have any respect for Vont.

I have one of these flashlights, and it's a piece of junk.

Hahaha. Okay
At least they were dirt cheap so not much complain.

They do work and way brighter than my one dollar SK68. Maybe I’ll throw one in the car or use around the house.
Will work to warn drivers with strobe if car breaks down.

Did a review of this sort of thing a while ago.

About 300 lumens with crappy PWM on medium abd low.
All the Best,
Jeff

Thanks!
Exactly the info I was looking for. So over 415 lumens with good battery.
I use LG batteries that I got out from laptop battery.
Not bad, specially when they are less than $4 buck on sale.

It’s amazing that this light has 139 reviews with 4.5 stars and another similar one by PeakPlus has 8479 reviews with 4.5 stars.

Just by joining this forum, you move out of muggledom! And there are a lot of muggles! But, many of those reviews could be fake.

Chances are they’re just ignert.

Compared to what they’re used to, the typische plastic-shell 2D light with hotwire bulb they pick up for 3bux with batteries, these lights are the Second Coming.