Single AA light with only low and high and no memory

How’s the driver? Levels?

Mine came with a faulty driver, pm to BLF member Fireflies lead to a reply; please e-mail us.
Unfortunately they did not reply on the emails, so i bought some of Rey his drivers which should fit.
Hopefully they will arrive soon so i can revive the SS Enogear/Fireflies AA

Wickedly horrible PWM on low and mid, if you are sensitive to PWM.

Are you talking about the driver of the Fireflies Stainless AA?

Sorry, I was talking about the stock Stainless AA driver. Sorry again if I was answering the wrong question.

Thanks. That’s what I needed to know.

Looks like a nice light. Thanks for pointing me to it.

It seems like a very nice single AA light. But it still has 3 levels and... I couldn't find it in Europe. Amazon UK seems to have it but don't want to ship it to my location. :(

Right. With they same driver (2 levels and no memory) but higher output it would be perfect!

Maybe I’m not sensitive to PWM but my example is excellent. Can’t detect it with the naked eye and my iPhone camera isn’t seeing PWM either.

Now, mode spacing leaves a lot to be desired. Low is far too bright and there is little visible difference between medium and high. Unfortunately I’ve found this to be extremely common among 1AA lights (one of the reasons I love my Ti3 AAA lights).

I still haven’t dug out my 14500s to test on li ion.

So far, the Ultratac A1 V2 and the FireFlies SS AA are the only two single AA lights I could find without memory. Unfortunately both have still 3 levels.

Thanks for pointing me to the Skilhunt M150. It's a nice light but with way too complicated electronics for what I need it. I'm looking for a simple, easy to operate but reliable AA light. The magnetic charging possibility looks like an unnecessary feature to me.

I get you!
Well, I am not sure if you will find “that” light you’re looking for.
The Olight has the specs you want, but not the body.
Besides this one, I don’t think there are other drivers available to make a reasonable Alkaline/Ni-MH light with 2 modes, no memory and decent output on high.

If instead Alkalines/Ni-MH you want to use 14500 batteries, you may take a look at this one:
Wuben E349
2 modes, tailstands, is a twisty (no switch), has usb rechargeability.
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000264332486.html~

You can also check the Trustfire L2, which is compatible with 1.2V and 1.5V batteries!
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001399875906.html

Thanks again for advising the Wuben en Trustfire but for running 14500 batteries I'm going to put a LED4Power driver in my Convoy T2.

I just built a convoy T2 with the 17B boost driver from this thread. [Oshpark] HQ 15mm/17mm programmable boost driver with ATtiny13A

Not sure what your skills are but if you can assemble a driver yourself that’s a good option.

I can share firmware if you’re interested.

Ya know. If you bought a sofirn c01s and a suitable AA host, one that you could depopulate the driver or such, you could make it use the sofirn driver. 3-100 lumens. No memory.

I fear Icarus is doomed to fail, due to excessively High expectations.

there is no perfect light, and compromises need to be made somewhere

I thought post#2 nailed the 2 mode requext
but the thread shifted into 3 mode lights
and they all got shot down

Not sure about that. :) I really don't like the design of the Olight i5T EOS.

BTW, Nice image, I like it! :)

Thanks! Very interesting. I'll take a look at it. Assembling a driver should not be a problem.

Putting the driver of a Sofirn C01S into a Convoy T2 (my prefered AA host) should not be a problem if the output can be increased a bit.