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How much do you spend on "users" - LED Flashlights – General Info - BudgetLightForum.com
How much do you spend on "users" - LED Flashlights – General Info - BudgetLightForum.com
Just like the poll says, how much do you typically spend on “users”? For me this combines considerations such as cost to quality ratio and likelihood of loss or damage. UI and specific LED plays a big factor for me personally. My two main users are headlamps from armytek (which despite the shitty company have been great headlamps). Not cheap headlamps by any stretch and a bit more than I would spend on a smaller keychain/EDC light. For the small lights I like to keep them fairly low cost…
As little as possible. My daily driver headlamp is $15. My daily driver light is an S2+ @ $10.
S2+ is cheating
I voted $20-$50
I rarely get flashlights that retail for more than $50
I sometimes get flashlights for less than $20, but usually I spend a bit more.
I need a dependable light for work. I’ve carried the same Malkoff MDC HA for better than 12 years. It is dead-nuts reliable, does everything I need it to do, and I trust it. North of $100, but if I were to lose it, I would replace it with another without reservation. Love my <$50 lights, but they can never replace the tried and true.
fw3a was about $35 when i bought it [just came out]
sofirn sc21 pro was about $21 on amazon sale
blf a6, i forget, maybe $25
so you can get perfectly good usable stuff under $40
wle
~$24 for a very reliable and sturdy EDC flashlight!
Does Hank make P60 drop-ins?
He did, some years ago.
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…and they are still top notch!
That says a lot.
$5 for Thrunite Ti3 (+ $2.50 for 219b emitter swap) $30 for FW3A. Various custom S2 builds ($10-$40)
essentially, everything.
all of mine are “users”,
so anything counts.
I voted $20-$50 since I use my S2+ Triples and D4V2’s the most.
Well since my EDC is still a 10 year old ShiningBeam S-mini…. I’ll have to say less than $20! I have upgraded the LED and replaced the switch once. It’s a bit more compact than the S2+ which is my backup EDC. For my use the long runtime has much higher priority than extra lumens or heat.
Where can I find Ti3s for $5?
Grab-a-light users are Convoy S2 (€14) and Enogear SS (€12.50)
My what-is-going-on light is a Frankenstein I built mainly out of my spare parts box.
In the dark winter days I attach a Glo-Toob (€11) to my dog’s collar.
By my bedside I have a Thorfire VG10 (€12)
Of course I have swapped the emitters on all of them, except for the Glo-Toob.
For fhe Enogear that was obvious because the emitter sheared when I put in a battery.
The Enogear and the Glo-Toob run on a NiMH battery.
The only 'users' I've spent > $30.00 on are one black and one orange LT1, and my much-loved YLP Panda 2 CRI headlamps, of which I bought four, because I guessed (correctly, it turns out) that availability from Russia might be impossible someday.
Almost all other lights, (out of ~40 or so lights, there's a mix of a few 1xAAA, ten or so 1xAA and the rest are a handful of 18650's, 26650's and 21700's) have been < $30.00.
slmjim
My Zebralight H600w Mk2 gets lots of use (?$80?)
BLF LT1 gets used most evenings ($50)
Emisar D1 Mk1 probably most used ‘large cell’ light ($40)
Various AAA twisties on keychains/pocket clips ($15-$40)
My vote is $50-75 price bracket.
I find this poll or, rather, the results perplexing.What do people do with all their ‘higher end lights’? just not use them?!? (I’m serious!) Surely the reason to spend more is to get a good light you’re going to get a lot of use out of?!
There are not many lights that I bought over 3 years ago that I still use. Why?Newer lights came out with “more” of what I want to use. So while price is a factor, it is not the first factor I look at when considering a new light. If I can convince myself that a new light will do something(s) better and be more useful than lights that I currently have, and I will use them, then I will usually wait for a sale. I am looking at some convoys that I think I would like but I don’t know that I’m actually going to use them much.