Damn you! Damn you all!
I just looked around, liked it, and just bought one from GB. Flash sale for 12bux, good for another 4 days.
I was hoping the twisty would be a selector, like twist a little for firefly, a little more for low, a little more for med, etc., but it’s a simple on/off twisty. Eh, close enough.
’Cause of you people, I’m gonna be hip-deep in new lights… 
Damn you back!
12 bucks? Now I’m going to have to buy another one or two for gifts
One. At least for the 12bux. I tried. Oh, how I tried…
> This will be a gift for someone that travels a great deal and needs a light at night in strange hotel rooms.
not AA but: Nitecore Tip CRI
no need to buy batteries, needs mini usb cord that she may already have for her phone (just dont use lockout)
Look at the Streamlight ProTac EMS. Single AA, any version. Modes of 3.7/10/50 lumens. Always starts on low. I carried one for several years when I worked in the kitchen at a nursing home. Very handy for looking under shelves and in dark corners, etc. As the name implies, it was designed for EMS use. It is a very nice blue color, and has the EMS emblem on the side. IIRC it sells for around $35 USD. Really a nice little light. I wish I still had it but it decided to run away from home.
Thanks for all the suggestions folks! I’ve looked at several of these and purchased a few of them too.
I’ll keep watching and looking and buying and let you all know where we end up!
Manker E11
Just got this one (from amazon, not ebay)… pretty nice, pink and all.
Only thing I’m not crazy about is that there’s not much momentary anything on the switch. It seems to be neither a forward-clicky or reverse-clicky. You gotta full-click it to do anything. Half-press when on won’t turn it off (not a RC), and half-press when off won’t turn it on (not a FC).
Still, for 12bux, who cares?
It’s thin-walled and really light, thread feel is pretty good, seems to have a nice beefy o-ring on the tail end of the battery-tube to snug up the tailcap nicely.
(later…)
Wait, no, I take it back. Just playing with it now, and it’s a FC! Jesus smiled on me…
It’s a little finicky, but yes indeedy, it’s a FC. Can switch modes by half-clicking (while nominally off). Maybe the switch just needs some working in, break in the “springiness” a little more.
And now the switch is acting up on me. Of course… Doesn’t seem to know what mode it wants to be in after “flickering” a bit.
Best to just keep it off, set the mode you want by half-pressing it, leave it off a few seconds, and then just full-click it on/off as needed.
Impressed with its moonlight mode, though! Will come in handy at night.
And on the bright (haha) side, being that it’s Barbie Pink, chances are no one’s going to be too inclined to swipe it on me.
Still haven’t gotten this one, though. Kinda itchin’ for it…
Any idea how long it takes GB to ship to the ’States?
I know you asked for AA litghts, but the ThorFire PF03 (1x AAA) is what I am keeping next to my bed a the moment.
It always starts in low and has no memory - so it meets that requirement. The sequence is low-high-med. Low is great for trips to the bathroom without waking the wife. Med is perfect for trips to the kitchen.
It will test your patience. I’ve had both fast shipping, and shipping where I wondered if the package got lost. That’s why, unless I’m truly in no hurry, I order off of ebay and pay a few dollars premium.
GB must have been listening in… I just got it today!
Quite nice, wish I had gotten another one, but the sale’s long over.
I’ve got enough 1×AA mini-lights to last me a while, but a 2nd Jetbeam like this would be nice!
Gotta confess, one of my fave 1×AA lights is my old River Rock (Target house-brand). Nice bright light that stays constant right up to the end, ’til you just can’t fire it up any more. I always carry spare AAs when I’m packing an AA-light, so that’s not a bother to me.
Might be this one…
Yeah, might be that one. His is waaaaaaay more weatherbeaten than mine, and this looks a lot more like mine
http://glennmoller.com/rock-river-1-watt-led-flashlight/
being not so beaten-up.
Never had a problem with mine, thank B’harni.
They’re baaaaaaaaack! 13bux, not 12, though.
Nice sale on Panny-Bs and 30Qs, too.
(I find it somewhat scary that I can say things like that last sentence and people actually know wotnahell I mean. )
AAA, single mode, but I got one of these. Nice, very tiny:
I’d probably go for a cree 7W 300, those could blind someone if needed. The last one I got, I think after last Christmas, was good. $2.50, single mode though.
If you ordered a few, might get good one.
I looked at the review of the Klarus, that might be a good one. $39.95 is pricey, but you can spend that, or more, on dinner.
You might consider The Xtar WK50 AA alkaline but it doesnt start on low. Theres an individual on ebay selling them for 9.59 free SH but they only come in pink. I ordered one for my wife because it was pink lol. It was nice so i just ordered another for my daughter. Good Luck
I wasn’t going to bring it up since it takes a AAA, but given the wide variety that you have had posted already so far, Ill add the Astrolux A01 to the list.
I now have several, one on each kids keys, one in each travel toiletry bag on a lanyard long enough to loop around your wrist. Since they are AAA size I even used a couple as zipper pulls on our tents. The low mode with a Lithium primary makes a great - nightlight / find the zipper in the dark / pop the larks head and take it with you to the comfort station - light.
Its a twisty, low - med - high - low - med - high - strobe. Easily enough to navigate a campground, so a hotel would be cake.
I got one on Amazon, also pink, which is fine because people’ll be less likely to swipe it from me.
Frankly, the semi-gloss finish in pink looks quite nice. Almost satiny…
The switch is the worst part, though. Kinda stiff and finicky, and there’s a really narrow divide between half-click and full-click (like 80% pressure for half and 100% pressure for full), enough to be annoying when you just want to change modes and end up full-clicking it instead.
For the same bux (~13), I think I’d rather stick with my twisty Jet-1. Changing modes is a deliberate act, not an “Oh, crap, it flickered on me because I was trying to half-click it and it cycled through 3 modes instead…” accident.
The WK50 in twisty instead of clicky would be nigh perfect, then. Just my 2¢…
Just to add to this, the Jet-1 being twisty would make sure it’d start in low once it’s set to that mode. You’d have to deliberately twist/untwist/twist in quick succession to change modes.
+1, and in NW if that’s your thing.
I love those Jetbeam Jet-1 MK’s. Recently, they were as low as $10.99 on flash sale at Gearbest. Giving out a lot of those this Xmas. Ho-Ho-Ho! And Sanrenmu 7010’s too, for those who have been really good.
About 5 months ago, Xtar direct started closing out lights. The WK-50 in pink was one of them. I order 2 for giggles. I think I also got a couple of WK-42 (16340/CR123a) for like $12 a piece? Not like I needed them, but hey, $12…Don’t judge.
I had planned to use the Jetbeams as an EDC, to burn through the myriad of AA primaries I have lying around the house in various stages of discharge, but now I’m using the WK-50 for that purpose. Funny thing about one of the WK-50’s. My daughter dropped one and it stopped working. Was debating whether or not it would be worth it to ship back a $7 flashlight and was also curious about what would happen if I stuck in a 14500. Oddly, the light now runs on 14500. Fairly bright, too. BTW, according to the documentation, the WK-50 does not support 14500. Hey, my first mod!!
Anyway, I’m using the other WK-50 daily. For $7, it’s hard to beat. Buy many in case a battery leaks or she loses another or for whatever other reason. Or you could spend a little more and go the Jet-1 way. At least the Jet-1 comes with a pocket clip, which probably doesn’t matter to her. I also carry a Skilhunt H15 and Nitecore MT10a, but the WK-50 is the main because I have no pride and who’s gonna steal a pink flashlight from me? Heck, someone’s actually returned it to me. LOL The WK-50 does have some sharp corners and I can see how some wouldn’t like the switch. I’ve gotten quite used to it. And it does have mode memory, as does the Jet-1 MK.
BTW, Jetbeam JET - u on sale at gearbest for $10, if you don’t mind AAA. Jet-1 MK is 13 and change. While we’re on the subject of Jetbeam, a while back, I bought the JETBeam MINI - 1. They go on sale for under $17. Tiny keychain flashlight, 130 lumen on high, 9 lumen on low, usb rechargeable and comes with a 10180 Li-Ion rechargeable battery that charges through a micro-usb port. One of my very favorite keychain lights. It’s a twisty. Turns on in low and as you continue to rotate, it moves to high. Super simple to operate.
BTW, I don’t work for Jetbeam, Gearbest or Xtar. Just put a lot of their kids through college. :partying_face: