A few new and uncommon super-budget 1xAA lights on eBay

I do have high hopes for the MXDL. Can't go wrong for that price anyway.

Indeed.

At those prices, if it emits light, you are probably ahead of the game. They are quite likely brighter than most of my Luxeon 3 lights from a few years go. They are certainly cheaper. think I paid $30 for a direct drive Luxeon 3 light and that was very cheap.

And I paid about $5 for one of those little 8-LED "Xnova" AA clones with a flickery twisty-switch.

Ordered the first one. Will let you know.

Looking forward to your review. Did I miss it, or did they not even make a claim about brightness?

Not seeing a brightness claim is more or less as much educating as seeing one on DX ;)

Just think about how many more lights you can buy if you quit smoking altogether. ;)

More than would fit in the house...

You should take a picture of all of your lights together Don.

That would be a sight to see. Cool

I did post them in various categories a week or two back. I'll try to find all of them and provide a pic some time soon.

If it can manage 3 volt it might manage 3,7 volt as well? Would be nice.

Neither of them actually explicitly state voltage. At the price, if a 14500 kills them they can always be modded. I'd guess they are aimed at alkaline users - will see what sort of currents they draw from alkalines and Eneloops first.

You're gonna need to clear A LOT of room for all of your lights. I can't wait to see all of them together.

The C3 clone - ordered last night, shipped by this morning. Doubtless by slow HK bulk mail, but it'll get here in due course.

This is why I like eBay, the sellers realize that many buyers will be scared off if their approval rating is anything less than 99%, so they really go the extra mile to ship quickly. The DX-type companies seem to feel that their customers just need to be "patient" and deal with it. My cheap $4.99 Zoomable flashlight also shipped just now. DX and the likes could learn a thing or two from these small-fry sellers.

What happened to holding off on buying new lights? LOL

My MXDL was also apparently shipped today.

Not bad comparing to DX... not taking into account some strange and rare exceptions, like getting DX package two weeks after ordering...

It was cheap - felt like a new light and at least it wasn't some multi-hundred dollar device. The MDXL also shipped today - quick shipping and I'll be interested to see what turns up.

Here you go. Took me two hours to find them all, but it did turn up the much missed Preon 2.

Known to be missing

2D Mag

Vector "3 million candlepower" spotlight

A lantern I found in the rubble of a demolished part of the hospital

Another Ultrafire C3

A couple of plastic 2D lights though I may have tossed them

Whatever's in the parts box. At least one light I killed trying to get it apart.

So here we have 94 lights, not counting the squeeze lights apart from the Photon ReX. The count went from 92 to 98 today when six more BLF DeLights arrived. They are a bit longer and perhaps slimmer than the previous 2 - not yet tested them as am topping off some NiMH cells just now for them. Everything there works, some better than others - the Aurora SH0030s (indistinguishable from the Ultrafire C3s in this pic are particularly problematic and are not recommended.

The Golston (3rd row from the front, 9th from the left next to the Solarforce L2 with the lanyard ring thing) was the first light I ever modded. All 6 Mags in the back row have been modded, the silver 3D is the only one that wasn't modded by me. 18 of the other lights have been modded, usually just to get them to actually work after a bit of use. There are only 7 incandescent lights there - both the 6D mags, one of the 3Ds, the green 2D, the Ultrafire WF-500 (Back row, 4th from right. The reflector thing in the plastic bag at the front is an LED dropin for the WF-500), the orange plastic thing at the left of the second from bck row, one of the two yellow plastic things in the same row - the other has a low brightness eternal running PR2 LED bulb in it.

Al, you've got sharp eyes as you showed when spotting the sticking out O ring. See if you can spot which two BLF DeLights are the original pair. Or anyone else. There may even be a prize.... The 8 DeLights are in the front row between the silver PowerLight and the two Tank007 E07s. I'll give a hint tomorrow if nobody gets it.

Just remembered two more that need modding and aren't currently working - rather nice Nuwai rechargeable Luxeon 1 lights. Just dropping in an SSC LED in place of the Luxeon gave 3x the light for twice as long. But the funny shaped driver circuit stopped working in both of them.

There will be a second prize though. So keep the answers coming. I have posted all the information needed to spot them.