Hi,
I am pretty new to the flashlight game, I just recently got some nice 2xAA lights form JetBeam and Nitecore, and I love them. My personality is such that I want more and different flashlights now. I have been looking at getting into 18650 sized lights, my preference is still for lights that fall in the EDC category, nothing too big. I looked at the Roche F12, and may still get one of them but the Convoy S2 stood out as having a nice design and a wider range of compatibility with protected 18650 cells. This would be my first time getting into li-ion rechargeable and i think id like to go with protected cells if i can. (any good recommendation for high mAh batteries that would work well for this light would be welcome as well)
My issue has been that many vendors seem to have some different options regarding this flashlight. plenty of LED choices, and even some driver choices depending on where you look. Later i may be a bit more picky about color tones and such, but as of now i like things in the cool white to neutral white range, i just am not a fan of lights that are too warm.
There are so many choices, not just of LEDs and color tones, but also of vendors. I have looked at a few, BG and FT being the top two. BG has an option for an XML2 LED whereas FT has only XML options (so it seems) FT has some options on driver though.
then of course i was looking at some of the custom build options when i found Mountain Electronics LLC, but that gets into a ot of stuff i dont know enough about yet to make good choices as to components…
if you guys can offer some advice on where to look and maybe what models to look at, it would be appreciated. also, if there are other vendors i havent looked at that are good and reputable, feel free to suggest some.
thanks