Recommend a good single aa light with firefly/moonlight mode.

[Bort]

@kreisler

my archer 1a has suuuper low moonlight mode (firefly), my Eagletac D25A too and Quark.

the archer is primitive and robust except for the o-rings lol, the quark is light-weight and feels cheap and after a few weeks of EDC looks like crap no fence, the eagletac has super fine (thin!) walls and threads but is true joy to own and fiddle with. i would probably recommend the quark, has the best tactical UI and driver, but apart from tint issues the build quality ruins the joy. so my vote goes to the likable eagletac titanium.

i don’t know anything about Zebralight sc52. on cpf there is a poll on dying zebras :face_with_monocle:

EDIT: oops i didn’t read the under 50$ requirement!! so this post will be deleted within 1 day

when have you ever deleted a post? :bigsmile:

[ToyKeeper]

FWIW, if you’re willing to use 16340 or 18350 battery instead of AA, the JETBeam RRT01 I just got from FastTech is barely over your price limit and has the best firefly modes I’ve ever seen. It adjusts smoothly and easily from 0.005lm to 500lm, and rather a lot of its range is under a lumen. It’s great for getting exactly the amount of light you need, even if that means you want it dimmer than a tritium vial.

I just did a quick test, and going from zero to ~2.7 lumens (same brightness as L1 on the SC52) covers about two thirds of the light’s control ring range. The remaining third goes from ~2.7lm to 500lm. It has very fine-grained control over low-lumen output.

The main drawback is that its battery only lasts for 4 days, even at the lowest setting. In contrast, the SC52 can last for up to 3 months per charge. So, not a good light to leave on overnight as a night light.