I’m looking for something to de-throne my old P7 flashlight for overall lumens.
I would greatly prefer a flashlight that operates on a single 26650 (or 18650). I’m paranoid about operating Lion batteries in series. I know to check the battery status, but my wife or small kids may grab the flashlight and forget to turn it off, etc. etc.
I know I can get any number of relatively inexpensive single XML emitter flashlights, and I have one on order, but I’m looking for a quantum jump in lumens, not just an incremental step. I want to keep this under $70, if possible.
Are there any good 3*XML or 5*XML’s that operate on a single 26650 or 26650’s in parallel? Any that are well driven and where they did a good job heat sinking?
Assuming a 3*xml with each driven at 2.5A, that would be approximately 30 minutes on high for a single 4000mAH cell. That would be acceptable to me as long as it also has a medium 600 lumens and a low~100 lumens mode. Or else it could have cells in parallel. I just don’t want to have cells in series where you would be well advised to balance the cells periodically.
One other option is using sealed AGM lead acid batteries. But since I posted under the 26650 topic . . .
ElectroLumens BigBruiser is a 3XML beast that runs direct drive on one 26650. It’s over the origional posters budget. I just mentioning it because it is an awesome amount of light off one cell