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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.
9 batteries? woo wee, lol
Whoa - where did you get that? Which Costco? That’s a pretty good runtime for 9 AAs at 1000 lumens.
I keep writing on the in-store suggestion cards to stock Fenix flashlights - maybe someone saw that got this? 
Also - what is the free offer on the back all about?
Beamshots of flood and throw would be much appreciated,
They must have accidentally had the light meter set to chinese-lumens.
Just a guess
Nice! That light sounds like an Old-Lumens dream come true! Factory XM-L run on AA cells.
I'm actually interested to see how well their focusing technology works with an XM-L in comparison to other FTT XM-L lights we've used.
I think a few of the new Led Lenser all use XM-L’s too.
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.
I showed this to a buddy and he called Coast - they said:
- this is a Costco exclusive
- did not know for how long Costco would stock it
- there would be no official information on the Coast website on this light
- it will not take 14500 lithiums
- the red ring at the end does not illuminate
- it is making its way through the Costco distribution (NY Costcos should have it in two weeks)
- the free offer as seen on the back is for the G10
This looks like a great alternative to the TK41/TK45!
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.
thanks for sharing with us
i really like that but doubt it will make it to Costco-UK
the flashlight choice on the shelf over here is pretty poor
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.
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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).
I know that the Leatherman recent acquired LED Lenser, which is the parent company for Coast. I wonder if that’s why they’re showing up here now.
This thing BLAZES and does it without overheating. It THROWS with a BIG even hotspot that is to put it mildly impressive as all get out. The zoom-spill is plain HUGE without quirky rings and artifacts. In fact on mine the hot spot is nicely surrounded with an even corona that spills out gradually and also evenly on the zoom-out. Very impressive indeed for an aspheric. And what a relief not to see another square emitter stamp 100 yards out.
This most definitely leans to a yellowish cast reminiscent of an incandescent which brings out a tree’s leaves as vivid green whereas my XinTD NW V3 would show that same tree in a more natural subdued tone. Is this bad? I don’t think it is. It’s better than the color-washout from stark cool whites we tend to see on other high-power lights and IMO is a nice balance between cool and XinTD NW. The fact that it throws as well as it does without a cool-white boost is impressive enough in of itself. Did I mention it throws? Like no tomorrow boys.
The bottomline is that this is one heckuva torch for $49. It’s very well-constructed and feels solid bow to stern. And as a result I will be buying more than one which tells ya something.
If you haven’t yet got one, then plan on getting one. You won’t regret it.