Agree.
There are always 2 lights in the car, a compact thrower on LiION, and a glove compartment light on NiMH.
When I get into the car, that’s 2 more lights. One in my BOB. My Enogear 14500 SS in my breast pocket.
Ever since I bought that last light, it goes wherever I go. Except under the shower.
And when I am on a holiday, there is a backpack loaded with whatever I think is useful on that trip.
Sounds pathetic, I know.
Frankly my dear, I don’t give a d*.
You don’t have to schepp it around.
I really like mine. Build quality is great. Nice machining, design. Nice clicky and a great beam and tint.
Played with mine a bit, but I also ordered an other one to keep stock. Keep in mind that shipping will take a long time with this light.
The size is about the width of my fist (small hands). With an SS body, you are carrying around something with enough weight to be a bit re-assured that you are not completely empty-handed.
It has three modes, low-mid-high, no memory. And a crisp tailswitch.
I consider the build quality quite good. Nothing is rattling or loose. Finish is smooth, no raw edges. It looks as if some serious thinking was done before it went into production.The design has some drawbacks, however.
The head is connected to the pill, as is the body/tailcap on the other side. The 12mm ledboard is pressed down by the TIR + loose led centering ring. The 14mm driver has a very slim retainer ring. The switch also has a retainer ring, from the outside. Both with curved indentation, no holes or notches.
My problem was that you can’t predict to what part the driver will stick when opening the light: head or body.
I glued the led centering ring to the led board and the head assembly to the driver (I made some notches in).
Not crazy-glue, however. And I replaced the one-heartbeat-from-DOA XP-G by an XP-G3 (Fasttech € 1.49).
1. Spark SG5 CRI (warm white). Why? I have a two digits number of headlamps and 95% of the time - that’s many times per day - I am using this Spark.
2. Klarus XT2CR. Why? Because I always carry a 18650 tube light in my pocket and among my tube-lights, I like this more.
Only two lights is hard… I need to opt-out many lights that I like and use just because my main light needs to fit in a pocket. So, I am not selling them you weirdo
I love that I’ve tortured you all with the two light maximum. As a minimalist I like people to really think about how to minimize overlap of their belongings and LOVE what they own.
Minimalism has its virtues but I am all for overlapping. I have systems and for them to work, even when something goes wrong, I need overlapping. For example, I went on a camping trip taking with me two tested and tortured usb chargers (one QC3.0 and one 4-ports one) and two new ones (almost identical to the other two) to test and torture. I used exclusively the new ones until the days they gave up… Both of them in three days time. But, everything went on normally because I had a second - tested - pair with me which worked fine until the end. Overlapping is also backup.