Cheap-as-dirt SK98 (or clone) is perfect in this regard. I really like aspherics when pulled in fully, ie, not zoomed but the lens practically sitting on the LED. Nice smoooooooooooth wide beam, no hotspot to speak of, perfect for lighting up a path in front of you at night and especially with ice/snow on the ground.
Plus, with the ’98, you can completely unscrew the front bezel and make it a mule. No lens in front of it at all, just light from the LED shining a hugely wide swath of light.
Personally, with the lens as better, because as a mule the total light is dispersed over so wide an area that even 200lm, 300lm, 500lm will look fairly dim.
Grab a ’98, drop in a nice NW emitter on a 20mm Cu star, replace the driver with a nice 20mm driver (say, 2.1A NANJG 105C and set it for 10%/100%), and you got a killer floody light.
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Whups, sorry, the NANJGs are 17mm, not 20mm, but you can get a bunch of 20mm drivers from Fasttech. I got a nice 1.4A 1-mode donk in there, which covers a lot as a bright general-purpose floody light.
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And that being said, I hate zoomies in general. If I could epoxy the bezel in place to stay as a wide flood, I’d be happy, but I absolutely hate the lumen-loss when zoomed, at its worst when it’s shooting the batsignal (lose ½ or more of the total lumens).