After a lengthy afternoon power-outage extended itself toward evening, I spent a hectic couple of hours trying to piece together a working flashlight. All my old ones had been ruined by alkaleaks. Fortunately, by the time I finally got one sort-of working, the lights came back on.
That experience sent me to interwebs to search out a decent replacement, where I landed at CPF. There I found a great review by a fellow called selfbuilt for a flashlight called the Nitecore P36. Although it has been discontinued, I still like it today. 2000 lumens, 10 output levels, perfectly neutral tint, and an artifact-free beam from it's Cree MT-G2 emitter are a few of the reasons why.
First was a right angle, brass AAA from Maratac. “Personal spot light” they call it. Most recent is a D4V2 in the new Nichia E17a Azure led. Its a really beautiful ocean blue-green color.
Back in the day, when plastic-body 2-D-cell hotwire-bulb flashlights ruled the earth, Mags of all sizes were The Shiite.
So, yeah, a Minimag in my denim jacket’s pocket made me envied by men, and pursued by women.
The multicell Cs and Ds were just stoopit-expensive, and usually relegated to professionals like cops and security-dewds who wanted a club as well as light, and who could afford it (or at least write it off as an expense).
pretty happy with FW3A though, i have one of the originals been going since 2018 or whenever they came out
so i don;t really look for the ultimate light any more
just cheap things that may fill a single purpose
like the cyansky has a UV and a red led in addition to the white one
AND it was free
The first normal flashlight was Tank 007 tk566, I think it was bought in 2010. Well, the newest Skilhunt m150. It is interesting that both are on 14500 / AA, although I have very few flashlights in this format.
latest - sofirn sc21 pro
because anduril[like], very tiny small size[like], $21 on sale[cheap enough], and can use CR123A [ i have dozens of them and no good place to use them]
supposed to be arriving today!
EDIT
arrived
like it
at first i was annoyed b/c i thought it would have anduril 2 - it doesn;t - only 1
but that is ok too b/c now i don;t have to learn new tricks, already have a light w anduril 1 - FW3A