I was at Home Depot last Friday and being the good flashaholic that I am I checked out the flashlight isle (I really need to stop doing this). I found a shelf full of these 4AA aluminum "Defiant" branded 50 LED flashlights with a side switch rated ANSI FL-1 at 150 lumens for 4 hours. It also comes with 4 AA alkalines. I was most interested in this as a mod host so I picked one up. It was on the shelf for $9.88, but rang up at $7.28.
Here are some photos on the shelf:
Here's a shot next to my Fake L2:
Battery carrier has nice indents for the positive button of the cells and feels "decent" quality. The light body feels good and fairly heavy. Tailcap threads are typical cheap chinese threads (with some lube they'll be ok). The side switch is a nice solid reverse clicky. The only downside I see is that the lens seems to be glued on as I can't find it threaded anywhere to unscrew it. The head of the light does unscrew from the body.
Head diameter is 53.39mm:
Seems that if it can be mounted in the head, this DX 52mm heatsink/reflector module is a nice mod:
In stock form this light is really impressive to me! I wasn't expecting much from a multi-LED light, but this thing puts out a serious wall of light! Total flood! Tint is a bit blue, but not that bad. Here is a horrible beamshot taken with my iPhone:
I think it's a good deal at $9.88 and a steal at $7.28.
More photos (including measurements) can be found here.
EDIT: The 4AA carrier almost fits inside a D size Maglite (if I push it in it will scrape the wrapper off the batteries):
-Garry
P.S. Would love to see what Old Lumens could do with this host.