Hi all, i’ m looking for an edc AA Flashlight with a clicky button. My preferences are:
1. Medium mode 30-50 lumens and high mode above 150 lumens with a nihm AA battery
2. High output for a 14500 above 400 lumens
3. Fits both protected and unprotected 14500 batteries
4. Good build quality.
I have sofirn sf14 and I love it. Great mode spacing, neutral white tint, clean beam. Built quality is quite good. Drop tested by accident and passed. Highly recommended.
The Thorfire TG06S had a reversible clip, tailcap switch, good output on alkaline though it kicks butt with a 14500. High(500LM) -Middle(200LM) -Low(50LM)-Moonlight (1LM ), and Strobe(500LM); When powered by AA battery High(150LM) -Middle(80LM) -Low(20LM)-Moonlight (0.5LM ), and Strobe(150LM)
Wellp, if EDCing a light like that, it’d be turning on, off, on, off, on, off, etc., in your pocket all day. I’d rather it be that much harder to accidentally turn on.
And having to lock it out, whether physically or electronically, is even longer to turn on than even a longclick.
Besides, on the ’B, a fast doubleclick goes right to turbo anyway, and a shortclick off.
I read the reviews about the pwm and did not notice it (I could see the rainbow lines when watching media on projectors) so I bought it because it was less than $10. It’s my current EDC until I can get my Thrunite T10T working again.
I have many clicky AA’s, (Sofirn SF10, SF14, Lumintop Tool AA, Thrunite Archer 1A V3, etc) and in my opinion the best of all is the Acebeam M10
The sofirns and Lumintop are a “toy”, they can only sustain like 100lm, whereas the M10 pushes 200lm constant when using NIMH. The Thrunite is nice but it’s so big, nearly 18650 size