I tend to buy these in packs of 100. A lot of people I know use them as zipper pulls. I must have given away several hundred of these over the years.
My choices are usually something I've bought recently. The F22 would be on my belt if I had a holster for it. I have some hide so may just make something suitable for it. It's just too big for the AA holsters and too small for the P60 sized ones. So till I get a holster made up, it's the Ultrafire C3 stainless steel on my belt, Very bight albeit too hot running on high. It will normally have a 14500 in it. This will be the highest output light on my person unless I take one of the bigger ones for some specific purpose.
One of my two Tank007 E07s will be in my pocket. They are great for crawling under the desk type tasks where the Ultrafire would be too bright. It isn't quite the smallest AA light out there but it is close. The Maratac/ITP AA twisty is fractionally smaller but is more expensive - a lot more expensive for me as it'd be coming from the USA and would almost certainly incur import duty/VAT and PO clearance charges. I could probably get two E07s for the same money.
The Fenix E01 because it just keeps going. There is very little to go wrong and it'll give some light for over 20 hours. It was useful in my last car when the dash illumination failed to come on. It was bright enough to see the speedometer which is kind of important here with the number of revenue raising speed cameras around. It is plenty of light for getting around the house at night.
I will normally have an 18650 light in my bag - usually a P60 device or the Aurora SH-032. The bigger lights won't usually come out unless I reckon on a specific need for them. The 6Ds travel in a car...
At the moment I have an ITP A1 on my keychain and a Fenix E05 in a drawer. I like the Fenix's size but it's just not bright enough for me so now I'm carrying the A1 all the time. I also want to get a Titanium Innovations CA1 or a budget alternative if I can find one.
My EDCs change from time to time right now I am carrying a very beat up Ultrafire A30B 1D tint XML with a Nanjg 105c driver set to 3 mode high, medium and low with a turbo 2.8 amp high and a Black cat with a custom clip and a lanyard.
The Ultrafire is so great because medium performs 90 percent of the necesary jobs and high puts out a wall of of light that is unmatched by anything that size I have ever seen.
I like the black cat because of it's small size and its sharp focused beam are great for finding missing screws in small holes.
I had to remove the crenelations as they were too sharp for pocket carry, not to mention, pointless. Other than that, it's a reasonable amount of light for my typical use of working inside computers or similar. 1xAAA, small, and lightweight. And it's cheap enough that I don't have to worry about losing it at work.
You just woke up some brain cells. My father owned a Hardware Store back in the day. He used to sell these! The last time I saw one was back in the 70's!
Always have a maratac aaa Cu running on an eneloop. When I have a coat or cargoes I add in a Yezl S5 that I modded with an XM-L U2 running an IMR 14500 (this thing is an awesome flooder!, definitely a surprising amount of lumens from a small light).
In my belt holster is a Fandyfire (snicker snicker) 2100 350 lumen 5-mode, which comes with an SMO reflector. People at work say "HOLY COW!" when I fire it off, and I do need it daily. In my pocket is a Xeno E03 XM-L warm white on 14500. The people at work are also impressed by it but the reaction is split about 70-30 about the warm white tint. 70% don't like it, 30% do. On a "lighter" note, I got the blue/purple Xeno, which my wife calls the "Barney Light" LOL.
I used to also carry the keychain light our Admin suggested. But I killed two of them in my pocket and just never bought another one (it's on my buy-list, just haven't gotten around to it yet).
I EDC several lights, right now I have a MiniMag on my belt with a NiteIze LED-II Upgrade kit. Don't hate me for that, my dad gave me the torch 15 years ago, and I've carried it daily. Its been though a few upgrades in it's life. In my bag is the Maratac AA Extreme, and my backup light is a Maratac AAA. Also clipped to my bag is one of those Maratac SO-COM LED switch lights, in blue. Otherwise I also carry an UltraFire 606A. I have a thing for AA and AAA lights, always easy to find cells. I have the BLF AA light on order as well as a few Tank007 lights.
A ~ 850 lumen 18650 Uniquefire UF-2100 that costed me $14.30 shipped from Dinodirect group buy. A bit big at 120mm and 21 x 21mm, but still manageable with the mini lanyard hooked to the keys. Draws 3 amps and bright like hell on the lux meter! The good thing is that low mode is pretty low, like 70mA only and about 30 lumens so it can run like forever in this with the 18650. And PWM is at 1.7kHz measured, it is absolutely impossible to detect with the naked eyes even on fast moving objects, unless you are talking about fan blades on high mode. That's like 2X as fast as iTP.
My EDC torch is my XM-L Micro-Maglite (2*AA minimag shortened to single AA) that I carry in a custom leather holster. As bright as any other of my XM-L torches on high and a nice 5% low mode for book or map reading.
My other EDC is a Yezl A1. I purchased this light for use with AA cells only to find it was a horrible light. It was almost impossible to differentiate between all 3 dim modes. I really didn't want another 14500 torch but after trying it with one the light came to life - nice low, perfect medium and extremely bright high. I begrudgingly fell in love with it after a week or two of carrying it with me.
* an UltraFire P10-R5 modded to XM-L U2 2.8A 3-mode (L/M/H) - in my opinion the most pocket frendly compact 18650 host.
Since a few weeks ago I carry my new DQG II R4 instead of the P10 though. It's summer, I don't need the light often and go to work with minimal equipment (phone, purse (small USB stick inside), light, keys) - usually no jacket, no bag, so only a few pockets to carry equipment.
