New member here. I’ve always been a flashlight nerd since I was a kid. I just can’t get enough of them. My friend recently purchased a light from a brand I’m not familiar with. I must say I was impressed with its output for such a small package. It’s the Nebo Torchy. Has anyone done any reviews or had some good or bad experience to share?
I couldn't find anything on BLF about it.
It has terrible reviews on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/magnetic-rechargeable-compact-flashlight-EdisonBright/dp/B07ZPYFFJY
Wow. Those reviews are rough. Was just hoping someone had some hands on with one.
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Hi and welcome to BLF 
There’s a review from Charles BridgTec!
Independently of how nice this flashlight maybe, I will tell you: you’ll have better options!
I started witha Nebo Micro Redline before coming to BLF. It is a nice light!
But then I realized better lights exist!
The User Interface of the Torchy flashlight is not that great! For around the same price you can get better! And for a little more, you’ll get even better!
If you want compact flashlights with built-in charging, check : On The Road M3 Pro, Olight S1R Baton II.
And this just the beggining 
Welcome to BLF ” mcar86 ” 
You will be even more impressed with with lights here. I was also impressed with a $16.00 light I purchased on Ebay with a T6 led that advertised 2000 lumens. I began looking for a Forum for more info and found BLF. After some time here I purchased a Haikelite MT07 Buffalo with 4500 lumens for $65.00 using a free discount coupon I found here on BLF. I later modified that light to get 7000 lumens. Later I was able to accurately check that Ebay light to have 550 lumens that I was so impressed with. Guess I’m trying to say ” Baby, you aint seen nothing yet ” Hang around a while and have some fun
I've had hands-on with almost all NEBO models until roughly October 2018. While they've attempted bigger things since then, I see no indication that the brand-wide issues have been resolved:
- Almost all rechargeables they use are proprietary. (This was typically some kind of contact board to easily allow charging at one end.)
- They were using a lot of off-brand LEDs. The Chinese no-name stuff, "LatticeBright", you name it.
- Cool white LEDs. Exclusively.
- Entire products devoted to a single gimmick: This could be okay, except the other points here still apply. (Yes, I'm talking about the BUCKET, or the mug-handle light, or... you get it).
- Build quality is terrible. I dealt with replacing these lights under warranty (which, okay, if you buy them at the right place, the warranty is decent). I got to "dispose in field" of a LOT of their lights, so I got to just do whatever I wanted with them ("You can't sell this and you can't bring it back to work, but otherwise I don't care"). It's awful in there, man.
- The switches in particular, besides being a notorious point of failure... well, it was really a driver issue. When the voltage got low on the batter(y/ies), the switches started acting funky. Plenty of juice for the LED to function but the drivers became erratic.
- Big focus on aspheric lenses. Maybe a plus for some, who knows.
- A lot of NEBO lights were (at least at the time) direct ripoffs of common cheap China lights. Alas, I've forgotten the good examples along the way.
For the record, I own a few NEBO lights. I own an original Twyst, which is cool and was one of my first LED flashlights, but is objectively a pretty bad light. I own a Slyde King, which I "destroyed in field", and works perfectly fine except the physical switch on the button has occasional hiccups. I bought a Redline OC which has never done anything but disappoint in every way.
The only NEBO light that I consistently heard good things about from the owners was the "Big Larry"... though even that has a Version 2 now.
I have a Nebo Redline from 2014 I got for Christmas. Besides my Streamlight Stinger, it was my first “serious” (not really) led flashlight. Twist zoom with Cree XR-E and powered by 3AAA. It was pocketable, but big and heavy. Throw was good, lumens were good too (255 advertised-but probably not). It cost $39 at Batteries Plus (never doing business there again). Fast forward to 2020 and you can get 2 Convoy S2+ for that price with 900 or 1000lm and exponentially more battery life and it’s moddable! Or you can get an Astrolux EC01 with around 2800lm for around $30. Or of you want small, a Sofirn Sp10s with 14500 puts out around 800lm in a lipstick sized tube. You can do better than the Nebo!
Get something like an FC11 kit (with battery and cable) and be done with it.
Or an M200 if you’re digging the magnetic charger.
Thanks for all the fast input guys.