Hey all,
I won’t ask any more questions after this one. I appreciate you all taking the time to help and give me advice.
Anyway, I’d like to get a nice light that is about the size of your finger or thumb that I can carry in my cargo shorts and sit on my nightstand. My SK68 occupies that task right now, but I’d like to jump up to a better quality and better performing light to replace the 68 with. Besides, the SK68 is kinda bulky to be comfy in my front pockets.
As for price range, I’d like to stay at $40 as my limit. If I can get a nice light that does what I want it to do for $20, all the better. Leaves more money for other lights!!
As for cells, I like being able to use standard AA or AAA cells as that would make it where you’d never be without light and if you were, a quick stop at any of the hundreds of thousands of stores that sell regular batteries would have you back in light quickly.
I am not opposed to using other alternate cells like the 18650 and such, but I’d like to be able to charge it easily and without too much hassle. I don’t know if the 18650 cells can be charged with a USB if they aren’t part of the light. I guess I am asking whether there are 18650 cells that can be charged all by themselves with a Micro USB plug cable without the cell being in the light. I hope I made that clear enough. I get myself turned around sometimes…
Just a good, reliable light that performs good is all I’d like. If it’s from China, that’s OK. I’d also entertain buying a good USED light as long as it is reliable.
What EDC finger sized light would you all recommend given the limitations I have?
Thank you all once again for the help and suggestions. Glad I found a place to find out info on lights and buy more lights that don’t cost a fortune but still perform as well as their expensive brothers do.
Have a safe week guys and gals.
One more thing I meant to ask about the lights I am asking for suggestions on. That is, do all these LED lights have CREE LED’s in them now? Is that the standard that they all have or is getting a CREE led going to cost more? I would like to have CREE led’s in my new lights, if possible. I don’t think any of my other lights are CREE. All new stuff to me.
