Dollar Tree Flashlight (Lampe de Poche)
Reviewer’s Overall Rating: ★★★★★★★★★★
Summary:
Battery: 3xAA
Switch: Side Clicky
Modes: low, Low, LOw, LOW
LED Type: 3 x CREEp XPU/ke
Lens: Space aged polymer (I think it’s called plastic)
Reflector: Space aged polymer
Body: Space aged polymer. HO-4 hard-onodized
Tailstands: Yes
Headstands: Yes
Handstands: Yes
Withstands: No
Price Paid: $1 + $0.08 tex tax
Where Purchased: Dollar Tree Store (where everything’s $1.00)
Pros:
Nice useable low, Low, LOw, and LOW
No mode memory
No PWM
Direct drive in all modes
Output:
low: 5 lumens
Low: 5 lumens
LOw: 5 lumens
LOW: 5 lumens
No PWM in any mode. No blinkies or SOS modes.
Tail cap currents:
low: 345 mA
Low: 345 mA
LOw: 345 mA
LOW: 345 mA
Lumens/watt: an incredible, whopping 3.62 lumens/watt. How can such massive output be produced? The answer is the amazing XPU/ke LEDs from CREEp. These LEDs produce an amazing corpse/zombie enhancing 6900K light. Color Rending Index is estimated at 0.00001 unless your target is a decaying corpse then it is 100.0000
The only wording on the light is “Made in China”
Molded knurling on the light. It provides enough grip for a small light like this as long as you are not trying to hold it.
I hate cooling fins, clips, clops, or claps. This light has none of that, although I think it may have given me the clap.
As you can see the tailcap is rounded on the end and the switch boot sticks out of the side about 1/8 inch (3 mm for you euro types). The clicky has a good taunt feel and makes a pronounced click when used. No issues with mode changes. All modes are very evenly spaced (at 0%).
Everything on this light is made of some space aged polymer, I believe it is called “Plastic”. The body is hard-onodized type IV.
Tailcap threads are fine. They are not lubed and there are none of those pesky o-rings anywhere in the light. It abuses 3 AAA cells in a carrier.
The bezel unscrews to find no o-ring in front of the space aged polymer lens. The reflector/led position is un-optimized. I’m not going to screw anything up by not messing with it!
The bezel is also space aged polymer… or whatever. There are no crenelations, this should give Foy a satisfying throb in his tighty whities.
This amazing light in it’s high-quality packaging:
The business end of this amazing light. Note that lens and reflector come pre-scratched and dented so you don’t have to spend any time mucking this puppy up:
The light disassembled into it native nekidness:
Here is the money shot. It does not do the zombie-corpse blueness justice:
SUMMARY:
All in all I think this is a great light. Say what you want about the budget host or tailstanding or blinky modes… this light gets a 0/10 for it’s intended purpose. I highly approve, though it is a bit pricey - but you pay a premium for the worst of anything, and in pocket-sized pukers this thing is it.