[Review] Lumintop Tool AA 2.0 - Testing Output, Regulation & PWM for AA and 14500

Obviously right. Probably will do that after making sure regular AA would still fit.

Went to Amazon and found that the latest images and info were posted for the flashlight. I ordered one. Wednesday is the day I will find out if I indeed will receive the latest version.

:+1:/\

What’s most disapointing, is that it’s very unstable standing upright as a candle with the diffuser.
Perhaps my button isn’t as recessed as yours. But even then I won’t be good because ring isn’t a full circle.

Not in this review, but the AAA version is a total failure in that respect. The button sticks out a lot

Got mine for work about 3 weeks ago, does it all just great, love the output and clear color, no rings just clean light, with a mix of throw and flood. Love the 14500 and AA flip ability. The AAA Lumintop is a JOKE, only can use AAA’s, no lion, output is WAAAY too low for any serious work use. I tried many side button, clicky, and twisty style. The clicky AA beats them all in every way IMHO.

Thank you. It may not have the moonlight mode that most of us desire yet the feature set/price point/compromises are somewhat similar to the Acebeam H40 versus Thrunite TH20 headlamp debate:

AA compatibility (all types).
500-600 lumens (more than enough for just about any occasion including self defense).
Turbo availability on the first click.
Previously unheard of runtimes at higher lumens.

For less than $20-$30 we’re receiving unthinkable features as compared to not that long ago.

I remember that the Tool AAA was the first really nice small flashlight that used triple A’s. It is a classic and super bright for what it is.

I do like Lumintop brand. I just do not know what to think when I read some reviews on Amazon. Sure the people that give one star reviews sometimes sound like nutjobs. But sometimes I think they hold some truth. I will be a happy camper when I get my new Tool AA Wednesday. Have a great week Teacher.

Yeah, I like Lumintop too. I think they make a good light.
I know what you mean about reading the Amazon reviews too. For the most part I just quit reading them…… :smiley: . If I order from Amazon I just check out the specs & description to make sure it is the light I want & order it. So far so good on things matching the specs & description. :+1:

Thank you 264, I hope you have a great week too…… And enjoy that light on Wednesday!! :slight_smile:

Blue tack or platercine will cure that.

My Tool’s button is perfectly straight and recessed. It talstands better than most of my torches, save for the Convoy S2 and C8 thanks to the solid circular base on them.

Incidentally, what you’re describing is the one issue I’ve had with every single Thrunite I ever purchased that had a tail switch (a TN12 2014, a T10, and two Archers 2A). None of the tailstood well enough, and a few didn’t tailstand at all.

My Tool AA V2.0 tailstands just fine as is.

If they had made the ‘ring around the tail switch’ solid, then some people would be griping & whining about that; saying it was to hard to access the tail switch. :person_facepalming:

It is a no win situation for a manufacturer, either way they go some people are not going to be happy. Soooo, they have to do the best they can to try and please everyone with one design.

I think with the Tool AA V2.0 they have accomplished this.

On tailstanding; I’ve found that my T10 and Archer will tailstand (but yes, wobbly) when “on” but not when “off”. The switch button seems to be a bit lower in the “on” position…

With the 2AA Archer, I took one of those thin black plastic protectors that go on the bottom of cheap tubing chair legs (a few cents for a pack of 4), cut out 90% of the closed end to barely cover the existing protrusions and slipped it onto the tailcap. It’s a perfect friction fit, not too tight or too loose. Now it tailstands like a champ, with unrestricted access to the switch.

I think the Tool AA is a great light too, but does it come apart easily enough to readily change that cool emitter? Somehow I just can’t understand a major manufacturer not striving for good neutral emitters (and a sub lumen moonlite) right out of the gate.

Interesting tailstand solution Tumbleweed48, thanks for sharing. :+1:

What would be your recommendation for a “good neutral emitter”? Just curious.

As for sub lumen, I know some like & want that; I am not one of those though. So I don’t miss that a bit.

Yeah, I’ve heard about that, but the boots on mine protrude no matter what, just worse when they’re off, because they seem to be bulged in the middle. Not the case with the Tool, the boot on it is perfectly flat.

Has anyone seriously whinged about that? I don’t remember anything being said about it in the older Convoy models’ threads and reviews.

Oh yeah, that has been a complaint before by some. I don’t remember any exact references to give links to because I paid it little attention. But I have read it several times in the past three years about various different lights.

Regarding the mod-ability of the Tool AA 2.0, I belive that the head assembly would come loose pretty easily with a good pair of thin snap ring pliers.

Unfortunately my own pliers have quite thick endpoints so they won’t fit into the driverboard’s holes.

EagTac D25A shows how to do it. Still no full circle, but almost. Along with a low profile switch this is the perfect solution to tail clicky candles. Anything less isn’t really working very well; They could as well have omitted the ring completely, having an all around accessible switch (like Armytek). I dislike compromises that doesn’t work well in either way.

@ Bilakos: Grind the plier ends into a point with a metal hand file. Worked for me :+1: