Saturday evening I ordered, and Monday afternoon took delivery of, a Nitecore EC11 and Fenix ARB-L16-700UP. My new EDC light, I’m extremely pleased with them, and my Fenix E12 v2.0 will now go into my backpacking/camping handbag along with my Fenix HM23 headlamp.
I ordered an FC11 as a gift for someone as a “real” flashlight after seeing what they’ve been using.
But only after the sale was extended a day, having missed the undeclared deadline over the weekend. Wurkkos needs to be more explicit about which time zone they’re enforcing, because the Monday sale ended before the calendar day was up as well, at least for North America.
Funny you should say this, i was visiting someone in a nursing home and the meter station on wheels (O2 saturation, blood pressure, pulse, temperature etc) had a flashlight in its tray. A 2D cell incandescent which put out maybe 2 lumens from its expired in 2015 batteries. Then a replacement was brought in when the stations batteries died, it had two flashlights, one of the same 2D but with dead cells (0 lumens) and one with 1D cell and a no name LED with extremely poor CRI and maybe 10 lumens.
In my case, it was an attempted dual-emitter knockoff of a Coast Plastisteel-type light, powered by flat AAA cells. It lit up, but would have been no match for a Mini-Maglite, and I had no desire to try to figure out the UI.
Not as immediately vital to have a properly working tool in a settling like a medical facility, but they were relying on it to navigate power outages, which still has its attendant risks.
Yikes
We need muggle flashlights as well as our hot rod lights, i have a one mode AA light, 100 lumens-ish. But its too small and would fall off the tray. Plus i can’t get another one, its an old XP-G light.
I am not a fan of C and D cells since they are not rechargeable but they can be made in similar sizes and run off AA since both are 1.5V. Bonus if it also runs off NiMH. 100 lumens would wow 99% of the population.
Or frankly a 500 lumen light with 3 well spaced modes. Or a button that lets you choose say 200 lumen one mode or 500 lumen 3 modes.
Perhaps this is a business opportunity. But i’m not a flashlight manufacturer so can’t make it happen.
Costco actually has some muggle lights but hey run off 3AAAs which suck for runtime. Home Depot even has some but need C and D cells and they keep changing and often have 5 modes with blinkies.
I was going to get some really nice lights for people for holiday gifts… but when I gathered info about what they like and want, I realized they wouldn’t even like the sort of lights I think are good. So I ended up gifting a bunch of leftover Sofirn lights instead. They’re much more aligned with what muggles like.
I bought 5 Flashlights on the 11.11 Sale. On BF the prices were a little bit higher again so i just bought 1 the Sofirn S11, but they havent shipped it yet…