What is the BEST flashlight you've NEVER USED?.............

Tumbleweed48 · 2018-07-01T06:54:29.000Z

Olight M3XS-UT.

Beautiful light, nice box, charger, all the doodads - impeccable build quality from top to bottom - and I never use it.

It throws like crazy, delivers a spot the size of a dinner plate half a km. away, and the tint is so cool it makes my teeth hurt. But it sure is pretty.

The other is a Nitecore EC4S. Great build quality, well thought out design, great UI - and it just sits on the shelf in its original box. No idea why I don’t use it; I honestly don’t know why I bought it. I guess it just seemed like a good idea at the time.

Instead, I carry a worn and beaten Thrunite T10 in my pants pocket, an IYP365 in my shirt pocket, and a basic modded 3x26650 / MT-G2 / Yezl Y3 in my truck……and there are boring old Convoy batons (which I love) sprinkled all over the house.

Flashlight people are weird.

nottawhackjob · 2018-07-01T07:34:15.000Z

@Tumbleweed……

That is mega-depraved. You’ve beat me in depravity. I mean an XP-L flash and never been used.

I can be sorta excused because the TrustFire X100 has XML T6’s. But YOU…….

Sick sick sick.

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MyDangus · 2018-07-01T16:36:14.000Z

BlF Q8, only time I’ve used it is recording slow motion of my cat so there’s no flicker from the lights.

Convoy C8 I built, mostly built it to have crescendo firmware, but i don’t actually need to see anything more than 10 feet in front of me

nottawhackjob · 2018-07-01T18:04:05.000Z

Q8? I’ve used mine to ramp up and down at my ceiling at least 10 times so far. It’s FUN.

SO YEAH it’s getting USED, man.

Gebe · 2018-07-01T19:33:11.000Z

Nitecore EA4. Way too complicated U.I. for me. Still sitting brand new in the box.

wle · 2018-07-01T20:11:42.000Z

singfire blf 348 - great light, tiny, pretty, but its only one light level, which is too high, making the AAA battery life short
i should get another one in case this one dies of a broken heart or something

thorfire tk18 i think - the new one with ramping, 1x18650 - it’s too long, i end up using a utorch ut01 for EDCing

wle

Geuzzz · 2018-07-01T20:21:38.000Z

Copper Lumintop tool. Nice light, great tint. Just can’t live with the m-l-h. Sits in a drawer waiting for me to change the driver some day.

Lick · 2018-07-01T20:47:06.000Z

wle:

singfire blf 348 - great light, tiny, pretty, but its only one light level, which is too high, making the AAA battery life short i should get another one in case this one dies of a broken heart or something thorfire tk18 i think - the new one with ramping, 1x18650 - it’s too long, i end up using a utorch ut01 for EDCing wle

Do you know the size of the driver? I think you can mod it or maybe change the sense resistor to lower the output.

WillyD · 2018-07-01T20:54:12.000Z

I hear ya. The most I’ve ever spent on a light was on the Nitecore TM16GT. I have also never used it. After I purchased it, I found I had no practical use for it. I actually have it torn completely apart right now as I’m replacing the XPL HIs with XHP35s. Basically making it even more impractical.

wle · 2018-07-01T21:14:07.000Z

Lick:

wle:

singfire blf 348 - great light, tiny, pretty, but its only one light level, which is too high, making the AAA battery life short i should get another one in case this one dies of a broken heart or something thorfire tk18 i think - the new one with ramping, 1x18650 - it’s too long, i end up using a utorch ut01 for EDCing wle

Do you know the size of the driver? I think you can mod it or maybe change the sense resistor to lower the output.

no, someone probably knows all that - nichia is all i know - but so far i am not a modder

wle

djozz · 2018-07-01T23:08:16.000Z

They are pretty, perform well and have very nice Nichia leds but weigh a ton. Of both lights I have the aluminium version that are much less heavy, but the S41 is still too heavy to EDC. The aluminium D4 is very practical and gets actual use on holidays.

manithree · 2018-07-02T02:10:00.000Z

It depends on how you define “use.” The only thing I’ve ever done with my Convoy L2 is take beamshots. I just don’t have a good use case for a thrower, usually.

I’ve taken my Thorfire S70 on walks and dog walks. Even though the S70 is bigger, especially since the L2 can work with one 26650, the blinding pencil beam of the L2 makes it useless for me for anything up close.

No, I won’t give it to you, or sell it to you cheap. When the zombies come the L2 will help make sure the won’t get close to my house, even in the dark.

Lightbringer · 2018-07-02T02:45:25.000Z

One thing I’m guilty of is the compulsive “need” to get more’n one of each, so I have a “spare” (or two, or three) in case my main one busts. I hate having an orphan that doesn’t work, and couldn’t even transplant spare parts to get another to work.

So, of course, I got 2 L2s that saw maybe 5min and 30sec of action. The latter to just make sure it worked, the other, for, well, playing around when I wanted to see how much more “reach” it could get over those in my C8 army.

Quark 2AA-Xes, a pair. Didn’t know at the time that as with most lights that eat alkaleaks, their max brightness gets lower, and lower, and lower, ’til “turbo” is about what “high” is, then when “turbo” and “high” is just about what “medium” is, and so on. That ended up pissing me off, ’cause unless I’d burn down alkaleaks ’til it’s pretty much moonlight-only, I end up wasting cells with lots of oomf still left in ’em. And I’m not about to dump cells with 70% still left on the clock. So after a few weeks of wearing #1 religiously, I retired it in favor of a ’502 which I’ve been EDCing pretty much forever, ’til just recently. 1-mode, rock-reliable, constant output for most of the cell’s SOC, what’s not to love?

And those Quarks were 78bux each, discontinued, for a stinking AA light, plus a 20buk shorty tube so that if I could get over the friggin’ green beam, I could use a 14500 in it. I love everything else about ’em, but the AA life and greenitude… yecch. Kills it for me.

Lotta other lights I used to put into random rotation — F13, DV-S9, F1, Sofirns, Thorfires, all at one time or another — I pretty much go back to just 3-4 standbys.

All the others, I still have ’em, occasionally use ’em, but that’s only when I get the itch to look through The Collection™ and see what hasn’t seen daylight for a while.

Lightbringer · 2018-07-02T03:04:10.000Z

wle:

wle:

singfire blf 348 - great light, tiny, pretty,…

no, someone probably knows all that - nichia is all i know - but so far i am not a modder

Not to sound like a commercial or anything, but I got 2-3 BLF348-219s still in the box, unused. Probably not even opened, ’cause I don’t recall loading ’em up even to test. Was carrying one in my bag, threads are nigh stripped, so trust me, you don’t want that one.

Not from the GB, so no autographed box or serial-number or nothing like that, just when they came out for something like 11bux a pop and I had to have at least a few lights with a 219 in ’em, and went crazy. Probabl

I’m not about to use ’em any time soon or even ever, so if you’re interested, gimme a holler.

WillyD · 2018-07-02T03:20:55.000Z

djozz:

They are pretty, perform well and have very nice Nichia leds but weigh a ton. Of both lights I have the aluminium version that are much less heavy, but the S41 is still too heavy to EDC. The aluminium D4 is very practical and gets actual use on holidays.

Now isn’t that funny…my S41S is one of my most used lights. Yes, it’s heavy, and I don’t have an extension tube, so it eats batteries. But, I find it is perfect for extra lighting when taking pictures. Awesome mode spacing and uniform flood.

lumenzilla · 2018-07-02T04:02:55.000Z

The best flashlight I’ve never used is the one I don’t have

FPV · 2018-07-02T06:42:23.000Z

L2T stainless steel in original box. Have a custom dropin I build but never put it inside, was too afraid I would scratch the light inside or something. brand new in box but good light.

klrman · 2018-07-02T06:53:26.000Z

nottawhackjob:

Q8? I’ve used mine to ramp up and down at my ceiling at least 10 times so far. It’s FUN. SO YEAH it’s getting USED, man.

Same here with my Q8 except I do the ceiling bounce all the time so that I can take pictures of other things where I need very good lighting. That being said, one of my favorite lights that I rarely use, is this little cheapo zoom one here For some reason, it's one of my favorites since day-1 and I have it on my display shelf.

nottawhackjob · 2018-07-02T08:20:52.000Z

@klrman……

“is this little cheapo zoom one…….”

We’ll if that isn’t the damnedest coolest little zoomie with the UV emitter on the side plus direct charge. Of course it’s no longer available. :person_facepalming:

And I would’ve bought at least two just to have a gifter ready because ya know….“Hey Notta ya got an extra one by any chance?”

:laughing:.

klrman · 2018-07-02T08:41:47.000Z

Good news, there is still one seller that is selling it in different packages and I ordered two today for gifts to friends who really wanted them after constantly playing with mine. Below are the three links

https://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/High-power-led-linternas-cree-xm-l2-u2-395nm-ultraviolet-flashlight-zoomable-ultra-violet-torch-lamp/1502547_32753271705.html?spm=2114.12010612/itm2home-1.8148356.1.658531bdEcMQxG

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Rechargeable-XM-L2-U2-LED-4-Modes-Police-Tactical-Flashlight-500-Meters-395NM-UV-Torch-Hunting/32820027223.html?spm=a2g0s.8937460.0.0.2dde2e0e3lJAzR

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/High-Power-Led-Flashlight-CREE-XM-L2-U2-Zoomable-395nm-Ultraviolet-Violet-Light-Outdoor-Camping-Torch/32772529851.html?spm=a2g0s.8937460.0.0.2dde2e0e3lJAzR