Single AA light with only low and high and no memory

LED Flashlights ā€“ General Info 1 x AA / 1 x 14500 Flashlights
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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.

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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

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

BTW, Nice image, I like it! :)

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

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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.

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I agree :slight_smile:
but it has two modesā€¦ lol

the image of the flying Greeks,
came up when I searched your handle,
I think its cool too

it is titled
The Flight of Icarus :slight_smile:

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I know this story. There's a reason why I choose this nickname. ;)

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I love greek mythologyā€¦ thanks for the interesting google

I look forward to hearing you found a light that makes you happy, soon :slight_smile:

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I would like to thank everyone who contributed to this thread. Big to all of you!

At this moment I'm leaning towards the Streamlight ProTac 1L 1AA. Most important this light can be setup with low - high, has no memory and can run on CR123, 14500 and AA (alkaline & lithium) cells. Also important I like the design, Streamlight is well known for making reliable and good quality lights and the ProTac 1L 1AA is available in Europe.

My existing Convoy T2 will get a LED4Power driver. This is by far my most favourite (highly custom configurable) lineair driver which I'm currently using in all my recently modded 1 cell lithium flashlights.

This being said I will also try to build an Oshpark HQ 17mm boost driver for the Convoy T2 host I ordered today. Thanks to Bourbon Guy for pointing me to this possibility and all the hard work done by HarleyQuin. Thanks guys!

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Which driver are you planning to build? I have a couple of working 17Bā€™s but failed to build a working 17D. I should sit down with a multimeter and see where the problem is.

Either way Iā€™m glad someone else is attempting them.

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PM sent. :)

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I would be interested in this. Some of my favorite lights are the three-mode L10 and L11C. Sadly, they are discontinued. :cry:

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Are you sure the ProTac 1L-AA will work with a 14500 (4.2 volt) cell?

Thanks!

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According to someone who used his ProTac 1L-AA with a 14500 cell the light seems still to work just fine after about 50 charges. However, configured to Low-High it seems there is only high when using a 14500 cell.

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The 1L-AA does have 2-levels using a 14500 when configured as Lo-Hi. Itā€™s just that they arenā€™t as visually distinctive as compared to something like the OL i5tā€™s 2-levels. Also, one must half-press relatively quickly (short OFF time) to switch between from one level to the other.

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Actually I should have said ā€œ(short ON time)ā€. To get to High from Off, simply double click quickly fom Off.

However, if the first click to Low is On for more than about 1 second, getting to High from that point requires a double click to cycle through Low-then-High.

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OK thanks!!

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Just passing by a new Skilhunt E2A, an AA/ 14500 with 3-modes, Low - Med - High. I do not think there is a flashlight with only 2-modes CMIIW

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The Skilhunt doesnā€™t fit OPā€™s requirements.
And there is/are flashlights with only 2 modes. The one I presented (Olight i5T EOS) is one of those.

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Ran across the Nextorch C1. Single AA two mode light. Iā€™ve never had a Nextorch so I canā€™t speak to itā€™s quality.

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Another candidate - Trustfire T2 ā€¦. with Cree XPL, 2 levels, no memory, works with AA and 14500.