@texaslumens Do you ship from China? Because if it is US based, going to be very expensive for me. Cheers
If my vote counted I would vote for AA/14500 or AA/123A lithium combo.
I would be interested in this light too. 2xAA, a neutral white tint and basic UI. It also has to be reliable.
I think this lumintop is nice:
https://www.gearbest.com/led-flashlights/pp_400654.html?lkid=11612980
13 dollar with code IYP365
That’s an AAA torch. The topic is AA lights.
As far as form factor goes, the ‘perfect’ 2xAA light for me would look a lot like a 4Sevens Mini AA2/M2A with a tail clicky.
Sorry, totally f*cked up there :person_facepalming:
Now called the WH2AA-B
There was also an Eveready with this form factor.
Very good backup lights when I was doing a lot of cave crawling.
Driver designers take note — This kind of thumb-pushed side switch can move both forward and backward from the neutral point.
Or go in 4 directions as on many cell or wireless phones.
That would allow more possible signal combinations.
I’d live to see a modern version along these lines.
forgiven!
I loved mine as a kid. This has some really interesting possibilities! Create a nice aluminum body with a quality metal slide switch. I think I might go play in the CAD…
Oboy!
I had these as well. Horrible beam profile if I rememberz !
I guess a XPG-? with a OP reflector might work.
I agree; I have a couple of Mini AA2s and if I could swap in some Nichia 219Cs I’d be a happy camper. Unfortunately they’ve defeated my best efforts to open them.
The next best things are the old Fenix L2P / L1P hosts from a decade ago. I’ve opened them easily with low heat, and swapped in EOS Lamp drivers and modern emitters. Slightly heavier, but almost as nice as the 4Sevens Mini. There’s no reason these utterly simple hosts couldn’t be duplicated for a fraction of their ‘Big Name’ prices.
I vote for a singel AA…dont likte long flashlight like 2 AA. And make it first AA and not 14500 battery… already have to many different battery types.
And no AR glass to greenify the tint. I like mt Jet I, but don’t like the green.
My Jet II isn’t so accursed.
Yeah, I wasn’t using my Quark 2AA-X so dropped 20bux for the 1-cell tube.
Still ain’t using it. More constantly-dropping output as the cell(s) wore…
https://www.google.com/search?q=four+direction+button
finds the kind of button I’m imagining our driver designers might find interesting.
What could you do with the up-down-left-right choices available?
The green is not from the lens, the LED itself has an ugly green tint
Replaced with Nichia 219 high CRI mine has now a rosy tint
If this would happen an e-switch light with rotary head like Jet-1 and a tube machined from one piece
And a ramping firmware like Narsil added with NiMh support, likely a sandwich driver with 2 boards
Nichia LED 219 D320 CRI80 or high CRI as LED choices
Cree LEDs with a small reflector get always a too warm yellow hotspot from tint shift
Well, Texas is close to China! 
It’s just right over yonder. I don’t attempt to do China prices but if we can get some volume, we can keep the price down. We’ll do our best if we build it.
Thanks TL
Hmm. Recall offhand how hard it was to take apart? Glue everywhere, or not too bad?