When i received the Maratac AA copper I wasn't too wowed (see my review on it). It was heavier than my 4sevensminiAA, the output was not much more than the copperAAA version, and on first impression the runtime is just not what mostly appeals on a light. It was impossible to get the pill out so I was stuck with the cool white led that i did not like. In the review I did not much emphasize on the performance on 14500, although the light had a respectable output with them, and was able to be run continuously on high with the ~300 lumen output. Since then I finally got the pill (and a lot of silicone gooey) out by blowtorching the h*ll out of the flashlight head and applying brute force on the pill (still don't understand how the electronics survived that). Now the light has a xpg2-3C led, the weight just feels very nice, it is still really small, and I like it much better as my EDC light than the EagletacD25Ati2013 that I bought after this one (that is a perfect EDC-light, but just more boring than this copper Maratac 
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