Post Note: Well I decided not to wait after handling one. See Posts 21 & 23. It’s too good to pass up for a coupon that may not materialize. If there’s a coupon someday I’ll buy another one as a gift or whatever. Either way I win.
Well, I guess at least you won’t have to worry about trying to scare up lithium batteries out in the sticks should your batteries go dead! And if you have a pile of Duraloops laying around (like I do), then using 9 AA batteries is not a HUGE problem. On the other hand, using 9 AA batteries sure doesn’t make it easy to buy batteries for the thing. And, with rechargeables, it will require THREE chargers unless you want to wait HOURS for all of these batteries to charge.
I found it at the Costco in Coeur d’Alene Idaho. I have not opened the package yet. It was intended as a Christmas present to me but I may have to open it sooner just for y’all.
We’ll see about that. But I guess the one good thing about this light is at least it’s fairly cheap. So if it turns out to be a dud, then it’s not like you dropped a huge amount of cash on the thing. Even though I’ve had my issues with Coast’s battery holders, I figure that, at $49 for a 1000 lumen light, it’s worth taking a chance on. Unlike the TK41, I can actually afford to go wrong with this one.
Now what I would REALLY like to see is this light available as a D cell light. I would MUCH rather have the simplicity and runtime of D cells. Not to mention NO BATTERY HOLDER. Because with the exception of battery holders, Coast lights have generally been pretty good to me.
you can’t see the wide angle. Your eyes can though, easily. It should be good for walking and then you can zoom in to see what beady little eyes are attached to.
Never mind, I just bought one. It looks like all this thing does is stop enough on the zoom so that the emitter doesn’t get projected and only a dot does. Which I actually prefer anyway. I know some prefer D-cells in a light like this. Well, that’s what MagLites are for. This just gives ya a ready to go battery alternative that let’s face it with AA’s and Eneloop rechargeables is a no-brainer. D-cell rechargeables are too expensive and they aren’t Eneloops either.
I tell ya what though. This sucker is BRIGHT. Inside a lit-up Costco I was shining up some hottie’s behind from about 100 feet away no problem.
Btw, it works great on Eneloops. I just tried it and it’s just as bright on them as on Alkalines. I’m impressed with this torch. As a thrower this has a big useable hotspot. Bigger than a MagLite 3D for example. Way bigger. The AA-capability is what sold me on it initially and that’s the focus of the endorsement. That I now realize other attributes is icing on the cake. In fact, I like that I could prolly buy an extra battery carrier, pre-load it as a spare, perhaps storing it in a plastic tube or holster of some sort, and then I’d have essentially a magazine-reload in 3 seconds at my fingertips. I like that. A lot. Not only that, I now also have a convenient AA carrier that could be used to refuel other AA lights if needed in an emergency.
Is it worth $48. Yeah. Most definitely.
This gets Lumatic’s Good Lightkeeping Seal of Approval. (LGLSOA).