I bought an Energizer 1AA Luxeon LED light from a friend who has had it for a few months and has never used it for $6. He just wanted to give it to me, but I insisted on giving him at least something for it so he agreed to take $5 and I told him $6 because that’s still less than what I paid for my Sipik SK68 (it was $8, but I haven’t received it yet).
It was brand new in the packaging and is advertised as 50 Lumens versus the 37 Lumens on the packaging of the same light at different stores. It also has an Orange Peel reflector versus the smooth reflector of the 37 Lumen version.
I’m sure most of you know this is a very simple, one mode, 1AA light, that is a pretty nice size for EDC, but is certainly not the ‘latest and greatest’ in terms of LED technology.
Anyways, I think it has a Luxeon Rebel LED, and when I tried it out last night, it produced a very nice, very floody, relatively white, and extremely smooth beam (as in almost no artifacts and very evenly distributed output), that lit up a wide swath of ground for about 80 to 100 feet in front of me.
I prefer floody beams to throwers that have a narrow beam pattern because the floody beams are more useful to me for the applications I use a light for.
It’s because of this light that I’m now thinking that a Fenix E21 (or a budget competitor at $15 or less, if it exists) is the right light for me, since the Energizer has a relatively short run time and lacks the low mode and higher mode that I would like to have in an EDC (for longer run time and for more output when it’s needed).
s. - There was apparently a version of the Energizer 1AA Metal Light that was rare and had a Cree XP-C or XP-E that was sold a couple years ago at a couple of stores that Energizer refuses to acknowledge was ever made. Some surmise it was a factory mistake by Nuwai or whoever makes the light for Energizer.