I was thinking the other day about how I loved flashlights as a kid. Most of them would get destroyed in 2-3 days or left on and drain the batteries in a few hours. I remember always wanting new batteries and my parents saying no, you shouldn't have left it on all day. Funny how I now understand their logic.
Anyway one of those flashlights really sticks out in my head. It was a Rayovac 6v lantern. To me it seemed like the worlds brightest flashlight. It went from flood to spot and had a blinkie light on the back! It looks like they come up on Ebay fairly often also.
So does anyone else have flashlights that stand out as their favorites?
Philips Metaflash flashlight - my first bright flashlight (80 lumens I assume)
Romisen RCG2 - My first flashlight bought online (as suggested by cpf members)
Surefire Z2 - my only surefire
Zerbralight H51 - My most favorite headlamp
Zebralight SC50+ - My most favorite flashlight, Among all my lights if I could only have one this will be it as this is my current pocket edc. The H51 is a definite contender but prefer a traditional flashlight and I don't have the SC51.
I didn´t use much flashlights as a kid. Only alkalines were available as energy source so: even good ones were always 80% of runtime - dim... Frustrating!
Well, I had something like this at home, 6V batt with long tabs, fisheye lens, metal casing:
I remember also a flashlight with clip, similar form with side reflector and red + green slides to change color of beam. It was kinda cool :)
After those:
At the moment, I like my Solarforces quite a lot. Also like the others, iTP, Zebra... Hard to say one absolute favorite. Still searching. I´ve also sold quite many, I usually don´t keep lights that can be sold and that I´m not very fond of.
My childhood light maybe 4D mag was a favorite, it was quite bright (and always outta batts).
Feels weird now.
Items that I own now, flashlights, maybe many of these will actually be functional even for my kids, even that they are "budget". None of my childhood lights are, except the Mag.
