Review: Klarus P2A - compared to JetBeam BA20

ok, I will do. In this moment I have no time to take the photos, upload them, and link them. Will be finish before the week-end, sorry

Review finished. If anyone has any question or petition… :wink:

fran is this a FREE review sample provided by aurabuy?

they offered me a free review light by Klarus too but i declined.

xp-g r5?? sorry i cant be bothered. the P1A, P2A, P1C stuffz is 2011 stuffz!!

no thanks.

Thanks for the review fran.
Klarus P2A is my best 2xAA, it always goes in the car.
The P1A is a good EDC. Maybe I should try a Jetbeam of this series?
question : There are differences between the convenience of use of the clips?

I believe the caption for your polarity pictures is backwards unless I don’t know my right from my left LOL.

No, the free sample is the tank. They offered a Klarus to you?. So they offered a klarus to you? omg!

No entiendo lo de los clips. No sé a qué te refieres.

I think you are talking about the “reversibility”, I mean, about the ability to allow the clip to be installed near the head or near the tail, maybe?

Sorry, corrected now…

Sorry, It is hard for me, explains the question :_(
About the anatomy of clips. in the clip Klarus P1A lengthening toward the tail, Jetbeam not. Does this affect the comfort when placed in a pocket?.

hmm……

I prefer the “placement” of the jetbeam clip, making the light to be “facing up” when carrying in a pocket. That way you “see” if the light is accidentally switched on.

Also, the clip on the Klarus, is extreeeeeemely strong, and sometimes it will make very difficult to place it in a pocket.

But, finally, I think that is “personal opinion”… maybe you will prefer the light “facing down” into your pocket…

but it is easy to remove ;)

I love this AA flashlights.

I hove both these lights. Hardly any difference. I like the Klarus slightly more simply because the clicky feels a little more solid on my light. Other than that, they are pretty much the same light.

Pretty much the same light and so are the P1A and BA-10. On the P1A the clip placement is more important and more useful. The BA 10 clip is silly. It is in the middle of the light with the lens up. Makes no sense.

I love my PA2 but my PA1 has lost favor since it is not as bright and is slightly greenish tint. I have not put a 14500 in it yet but have in the Jetbeam BA10 and it changes everything. I’m not sure if it is safe for the Klarus or not.

True about the clicky. The Jetbeam's is very squishy.

The only thing I noticed where the Jetbeam is superior to the Klarus is the way the head makes contact with the tube in high mode i.e. via the two springs at the edge of the PCB. With the Jetbeam I always only have either low or high as selected, the Klarus sometimes is changing the mode when the head is pressed laterally if I fail to tighten the head firmly.

Still +1 for the Klarus.

The clip is great when clipping the light on the brim of a baseballcap/hat to improvise a headlamp. Other than that I agree.

Thanks very much for the review! Frontpage’d and Sticky’d.

You must have Really liked this light—to give it S-I-X stars. :slight_smile:

Hello everyone, hello from France.
Can be a stupid question.
Do you think it is possible to power the KLARUS P2A with 1x14500 and dummy 14500, there is no risk of burning the led.
I read on BLF that it was possible on the jaxman e2, I made it on mine and it was very good.
Thank you for your answers. Good day.

I would not do that.

There is high risk of damaging the driver board.

If I remember well, max input is about 3.2v