Hi! My favorite AA EDC flashlights have been the L10 and L11C from L3 Illumination. They are wonderfully simple. They default to the lowest setting without memory. They can be had with or without moonlight. Neither use PWM. Both are still available with 4500K Nichia emitters and while that’s a good versatile temperature, I find myself wanting a warmer light for night use.
Searching by tint or color temperature is sadly difficult. So help me out. Can we get a list going for good AA lights with warmer tints, high CRI, and no PWM?
Check out http://parametrek.com/ It is a flashlight and gear search engine that allows you to search by whichever parameters you desire.
I found 0 results putting in “Warm White” color LED and AA Battery. I think you may need to find a light you like and either perform or have someone perform an emitter swap. There are some nice 219B SW30K emitters out there if you’re game.
Market still lack budget Warm white Led Lights
If there is no demand there is no offer.
Better way it’s buy good simple host then you edit it by yourself.
Has nobody mentioned the Sofirn SP10S yet? It’s got a Samsung LH351D 5000K led. It does have memory mode and a shortcut to turbo which is not in the regular cycle. It misses the boat by not having a shortcut to moonlight, but overall it’s a great light. AA or 14500.
I’m pretty sure the brass portion of the head is screwed into the aluminum portion, but I have not tried to remove mine. It’s also possible it is press-fit or glued, which might make it very hard to open. I do know that unsoldering the driver will not give you access to swap the LED.
The L11C is a great light for sure. The Eagletac AA is similar in size, but I’m note sure I would like the user interface as much. The Acebeam M10 might be a decent alternative, as it’s very similar in size.
The Folomov EDC C1 is a different form factor, and also a different UI, but comes with a high CRI, 3000K LED.
Otherwise, I think you should consider the Lumintop Tool AA as a host to modify.
Jaxman E3 with 3 brightness levels: the Low & High have NoPWM, but Medium has PWM, can ask Jaxman for the 2-mode version which has only Low-High so it will not be using PWM, Jaxman E3 is available in Nichia 219C-4000k & 5700k high-CRI, although might be a tint lottery (Nichia 219C may have slightt green depending on tint lottery
SP10S with LH351D high-CRI: based on my checking, it appears to use fast PWM (not easily visible, but it’s there when I try to shine the SP10S light thru a small portable fan’s blades
Some AA/14500 lights that I tested and cannot detect PWM using my “shine light thru small portable fan’s blades” method:
1) Lumintop IYP07 - uses Nichia 219C, not sure the color temperature but possibly 4000-4500k (NoPWM on all modes)
2) Skilhunt M150 (XPL-HD or LH351D) - NoPWM, high-CRI LH351D but I think it’s more neutral-white color temperature
3) Wuben E05 also doesn’t have PWM on all modes, but it doesn’t use a high-CRI LED (maybe can mod to a high-CRI LED).