What are your Every Day Carry (EDC) flashlights?

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.

DQG II R5 on my keychain and R4 on my wifes keychain.

Nlight B3 [ AAA 3 mode ] No1 carry light ...

After that

Ultrafire M2 [ AA ]

Yezl-Ray [ AA ]

JetBeam [ AA ]

Maaratac AAA

ITP AAA

A20 XM-L [ 16340 ]

Solarforce L2T XM-L [ Low Current = 1.4A driver ]

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.

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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.

My EDC usually is

* a Fauxton 22000mcd as in reply #1

* 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.

Preon II Ti in my work shirt pocket

LD01 SS on my key ring

ZL SC600 in my right pants pocket

4sevens preon 2 in my work scrubs. Xeno E03 XML out of work.

Hi All,

I EDC an AKOray K-106, 5-mode, and a Solarforce L2T, 3-mode, XP-G drop-in as back-up near by.

AKOray around the house or close work, and the L2T outside or extended uses.

In my keychain I have just attached the minigear UML-300E, it is a 14500 single mode quite bright for its syze and water proof, it is 82.4mm long wich is not bad for a 14500, it is just a bit brighter than XENO in mid mode using 14500@1.4A

And in the car I am leaving the XENO E03 xm-l.

I received one yesterday and the other today, and to tell the truth I like both, they got nice outlook, and threads, Minigear is quite smaller and easier to carry but there are no modes nor AA compatibility.

Till now all flashlights I had were quite bigger than this ones so there was no possible EDC unless I had huge pockets for a TR1200 and things like that.

Nitcore D11.2 on Litium AA, not a budget product, but I love the low mode.

On my keychain: Photonlight Photon Rex LiIon rechargeable. An amaing light which can be recharged bu any 1.5V battery, solar charge or USB charge.

I've started to EDC 5-mode UF-2100. Fits nicely to my cargo pocket.

I EDC the N-Light B3 which is plenty bright enough usually. But sometimes when I feel like I might need more oomph and I wear baggier trousers I carry my Zebralight SC600.

I EDC a Fenix LD15. It's small and bright enough for my needs

a generic 2xAA cree light with max ouput of 40 lumen :p.

My cheapest/smallest light, bright enough for most purposes, my dry/kd C8 are bigger/heavier so i only carry these around when i go out at night.

My Spark SL6-740NW. I keep this thing on me at all times. I love this light. The only thing it is missing is a strobe mode. Other than that, it is perfect. I use it all of the time for work. I am terrified that something bad is going to happen to it there so I bought a 4Sevens Quark 1232 in neutral white to try out as a replacement.

UF-H2 around my neck, UF-2100 in my pocket, and a 16340 magnetic clipped to my belt loop.