New Defiant lights at Home Depot (Pics added)

I bought the 4d 1500 lumen light on black Friday on a whim purchase…

A pretty disappointing light for $35.

It’s big, bulky, and intimidating but the performance and quality was very low. The batteries rattle around and make noise, the beam is floody and not even close to 1500 lumens. My cheap Costco 500 and 1000 lumen Duracell lights were way brighter. Put in a fresh set of Energizers (vs. the defiant batteries included) and same results. The threads were dry and ruff, but got better when I lubed them, the finish is also poor.

I saved all the packaging and returned it. Not worth the 35 bucks…

I picked this light up to see if eneloops could kill it.
It survived the 6 amps a 4S1P stick of G2 eneloops could give it, but the light seems kinda silly overall.