I need some help…gotta bounce this off my fellow BLF members!
My son’s band (booster club) wants to put on a fundraiser and sell flashlights to the local community with their high-school logo on it. Since I’ve made contacts in China, I KNOW I can put together a pretty cool light for MUCH less than some schlocky, cheezy promotional product company.
Therefore, what do y’all recommend? I was originally thinking of an SK-68…but, think a smaller, keychain-type light would have more appeal. Here are some preliminary thoughts on specs:
3 (L/H/Blinkies) or 5 (LL/L/M/H/Blinkies) modes
AAA or AA light w/lanyard/keychain attachment
Custom Logo
Custom school color available? (Maroon color)
Minimum QTY
Delivery Time
w/alkaline battery included?
Aluminum shell
Cree emitter (Q5?)
Side or rear clicky?
$10+/- sale price
Gift type box possibly w/custom logo
Do you think that the above specs represent the broadest appeal?
What make/model flashlight do you think fits the bill?
Not sure if $5 is enough margin. If yes, the LZZ-06 will probably make them happy. Nice $5 Pregulla find. I'm not familar with the vendor. I have a few on the way.
I’ve worked with them before. Discount for volume I believe, but you would have to ask. Quality of the laser engraving was good. I think they might be a good idea, since, as you say, everyone in the US knows what a Maglite is.
The old incandescent bulbs gave an early warning as the voltage began to drop — by getting dimmer.
That gave the flashlight owner some reason to look at the battery — and most often catch the alkaline cell when it had only started to leak a little bit.
The alkaline cell keeps producing some electricity until the electrolytes are completely exhausted.
By that time, it will have corroded the inside of the flashlight quite thoroughly.
And with the LED emitter, that light stays crisp, white, and fairly bright all through the time the alkaline is leaking.
Don’t go with Q5, get XP-G or XP-G2, much more output for the same power and the led chips are not expensive
I disagree about the keychain light, i think an AA XP-G(2) at 1 watt so over 100 lumens for 2 hours would be a great light, with a linear boost so it dims as it runs down, and of course runs on alkaline/NiMH would be ideal.
I think a Klarus P1A would be a great light, but i don’t know if you can get it engraved, and it would cost too much.
I think SK68 is a bad idea, zoomies are not as useful as reflector lights, and have no waterproofness.
Most boost drivers are linear boost, as the battery voltage drops it dims, its hard to find a constant boost driver that keeps brightness until the battery is empty, i prefer those lights and look for them but i only know of an handful and i know of no boards you can buy (just board no light) that are constant boost, they are all linear boost.
I got my group buy AAA in a week ago and I have to say I really like it. It’s a very usable little light, the clip is nice for a shirt pocket. On a small light like this one mode is fine and it’s plenty bright for a little AAA.
