Worth a go?

when I bought the light in the OP it was for an extra 16340 cell I had

also ordered this one:
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Super-mini-XM-L-T6-2000-Lumens-Led-Flashlight-Waterproof-LED-Light-Torch-Hunting-Lamps-Lantern/32807091022.html
also not nice tint, but better feel, it hangs on the key inside a lock, with a olight 123 cell non rechargeable . Use it more often then expected, feels ok, should swap led and have a pretty nice light for little money

this looks pretty nice, clip it on a cap and go.
warm white option
a clone of the small On The Road, that is a clone of Olight
if quality is good, very interesting.

Well, I thought that too and I just didn’t buy it yet because I don’t have 1634o cells, nor ®CR123!
But I guess the specs are really cool and this is way more cheap than the OTR M3 and the Olights!
I may get one of these and if I do I’ll let people know about the quality :wink:

how about this one?
NICRON 3W
it came with a battery too

interesting but twisty switch—annoying

the ultraviolet version is intriguing for the price
wle

Think the K03 has a 17mm driver.

Jetbeam Jet II.

Oh yeah, wait for a flash sale or coupon code. Great quality light. Don’t waste your time on throwaway lights.

watch for twisty switches on very small lights
it is a way to make it shorter- eliminating the button part at the end
a better way is to have a side button
jetbeam II is twisty
just saying
maybe you like twisty

oddly enough i think it is more reliable- wait, sorry i meant ‘durable’

(i have just had a lumintop tool go bad due to a leaky battery.

the button switch in the end has about 8 parts, all different metals,

steel touches aluminum, touches steel again, cannot disassemble to clean

apparently alkaline crud got in there and corroded probably the aluminum parts—

ANNOYING
before this i thought what a great tiny light
now it is just something else i had to waste 2 hours on
it is still intermittent
twisty switches don;t do that-plus they make a smaller light

argh
)

wle

i approve of aliexpress
ordered maybe 20 things from them
cheap
and they always arrive
no slower than any other china shipping

wle

Well ordered that small USB charging thingy
TK wants a BLF special like that so having an Olight, On The Road i3 (I still not understand why the M3 gets the attention while the i3 is much more versatile with its zoom) do this one at ~$13 can stand next to it while contemplating if a special is fun to do :wink:

AliExpress heck yeah I love it, one of my first threads was about it, I was (and still am) so positive about it people wanted to mark it spam :wink:

Twisties don’t accidentally turn on in your pocket!

Well, mine doesn’t :stuck_out_tongue:
I have plenty 17mm drivers here - all of them were very loose in there. I measured it out and it was very close to 18mm.
But it doesn’t matter too much - heat transfer to the case is not really good, so you don’t want to put a 2.8A driver in that thing :stuck_out_tongue:

My Astrolux A01 does.

ha ha, i have never had that happen with a pusher, but i have with a twisty
( if it is loose, or not unscrewed far enough)
wle

I’ve never had a sideswitch or tailswitch that didn’t accidentally turn on in my pocket, usually burning down a Li primary ($:money_mouth_face:.

It’s a real treat to look down and see a glow coming from inside my pocket right through the material…

Twisties? Never. If it takes ¼-turn to turn it off, I’ll give it about ¾-turn to be safe. And give it a squeeze (lens and tail) to make sure it doesn’t accidentally turn on. That way you’ll know what’s the minimum you need to unscrew it to make sure it stays off.

Decent twisties are nice and “rubbery” thanks to the O-ring. If it’s loose, you got a crappy light, or already wore down the O-ring. Can’t fault twisties in general for that. That’s why they usually include extra O-rings.

twisties can unscrew accidentally in pocket, nice pieces of metal and a li ion cell rattling around :wink:
Only the small AAA SS Vollsion is smart, unscrew to turn on and screw tight to turn off, only one I would carry around for long in my pocket.

I have yet to see one so loose that it’d do that.

All of mine have at least a half-dozen turns or more before they’d come apart.

So stop Twisting, you dancing fool. :smiley:

...and some of my twisties accidentally unscrew in my pocket.

:smiley: :smiley:

Lightbringer I have not had it because the mere thought of it makes me not carry one for long :wink: