I just had to tell everyone about this nice powerful and very well made little light.
It is generic and inexpensive but worth every bit of the $12.00 I paid for both of them.
It's absolutely a budget light. See the review below.
Specs:
-Waterproof design, pressure resistance design
-Aluminum alloy casting
-Aluminum alloy reflector SMO Adjustable Focus
-3 Switch Mode: Strong Brightness / Normal Brightness / Flashing
-Zoom Mode: Zoom In & Zoom Out
-Model of Battery required: 3 x AAA or 1 x 18650 3.7v Battery
-Model of LED: CREE Q5 LED
-External Dimension: 25mm x 135mm
-Weight: 124g
My Observations:
Build Quality; Fit and finish seems to me to rate a 9.5 out of 10. No sharp edges, no machining or milling marks. Smooth over all finish, even black anodized with a medium dark green anodized focus ring.I would rate the finish as good as anything from Finex or Romensin and slightly better than Trustfire or Ultrafire.
Switch; No memory, no momentary on. 3 modes Low, Flashing and High. Soft touch ramping though modes is a nice touch allowing users to not have to fully click the button but use a soft touch to cycle through the modes while saving the duty cycle of the button.
Lens; Polycarbonate garbage, non-coated, not optically clear, actually quite bad. It is however convex and gets the job done. It could be sent to a lab for polishing and coating but really .....its a $12 flashlight.
Color Temp; Color is good and at about 5500k according to my digital color meter and compared with other lights.
Throw; Compared to other similar priced lights that run on a single 18650, its a winner, at 3 feet with max focus extended to 1st detent of focus ring, the light produces a 7" diameter hotspot with a purple/blue corona out to 17". When focused on a wall at exactly 50 feet with max focus extended, the hotspot is 7 feet in diameter. At 3 ft. in flood mode with the focus ring set to maximum flood on the 15 detent, the beam is even and about 27" in diameter with about 1" of spill beyond the periphery of the sharpest edge.
In flood mode with the beam being level and horizontal, will produce 8 ft. of even vertical coverage ( Floor to Ceiling ) at 14 feet.
Output Quanity: Measuring the output with my trusty calibrated LUX meter, I found that the output was ( for once, holy $#!t) very close to accurately described in the manufacturers description. High setting measured 3000 lux which translates to 280 lumens. That is only off by 7% of the claimed output of 300 lumens. On the low settings I measured 83.6 lumens respectively.
Output Performance; Burn time on high was consistent for the 1st hour and only deviated by 8% at the end of the 1st hr. The light stayed good with usable light for 2 hrs 34 mins until she quit. The light was loaded with a conditioned TrustFire 2400 mah 18650 batt. Sorry I don't use 3aaa's so there was no test of them.
Conclusions;
Don't run out and buy these if you are going to compare them to Fenix, Romensin or Nitecore, this light is not meant to compete with lights like these but if you're looking for a great little light to use as a daily driver, a good carry light that won't piss you off if you drop it, break it or lose it, this is a great beater to have in your holster, pocket or car. I'll be using these for night hunting while metal detecting. One will be clamped to the detector's shaft and one as a backup my Spark ST6 on a head band.
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Here's a few links for these lights.
$7.69 with free shipping from China
http://www.ebay.com/itm/3-Modes-Zoom-Super-Bright-CREE-Q5-LED-Flashlight-Torch-/280725638342?pt=US_Flashlights&hash=item415c8d4cc6
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Here is where I got mine
USA Seller on the bay
http://www.ebay.com/itm/170792609023?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649