What was your coolest / nicest / best flashlight(s) of 2024?
What were your favorites of 2024? (Flashlights / headlamps etc).
(See updated list in reply #2)
They can be in any category. Multiple categories are also fine.
Please use the Full Name of the flashlight! Brand + model number/name
Note: LED type, Color, Material, Driver types will be combined…
For example, all Wurkkos TS10 versions are combined… including color, LED, Ti, Cu, RGB etc.
Fenix TK16 instead of just TK16 (there are 2 brands using that same product name)
Pictures are always welcome and could make the thread even more interesting
(PLEASE ONLY LIGHTS YOU GOT IN 2024) (bought/received)
Always fun to look back at past years’ favorites as well…
so here we go:
What were the most popular lights of 2023
What were the most popular lights of 2022
What were the most popular lights of 2021
What were the most popular lights of 2020
What were the most popular lights of 2019
What were the most popular lights of 2018
What were the most popular lights of 2017
What were the most popular lights of 2016
What was your best flashlight of 2015
Best stock flashlight buy in 2014
Best modified flashlight buy in 2014
Best 3 of 2013
Best budget flashlights of 2012
Best budget light in category : value for money 2011
What’s the best flashlight, (for the money you paid) that you ever bought? 2010
Convoy C8, SFT25R emitter. By far the cheapest way to get 1km of ANSI throw, and does so beautifully. The availability of 7mm opening reflector and 7mm square 3535 gasket makes it much easier to get a nicer beam than theoretically throwier emitters like W1.
This is a tough one. Lots of cool lights in 2024. Weltool F6R is the runner-up, but the FireflyLite X4 Stellar with the SFT-25R LEDs is my favorite. I love the design how incorporates the diffuser/lantern, and has swappable optics. Good performance, Lume X1 driver, onboard charging, and a compact host.
Two lights that I got recently - and I really like them both.
Sofirn HS21 - regulated and efficient driver, nice high-CRI Flood emitters, semi-throwing Spot, and the rotary emitter dial with individual memories - rock!
Wurkkos FC11C 5000K - great light quality and tint, simple well-thought-out UI, regulated and efficient driver, and the ability to shrink it to 18350 make it easy to love it. Plus orange with the black stripe (the short tube) and the GITD tape on it looks cool! The rubber switch mod gives it a bit more class.
Didn’t buy many lights this year. The new favorite is my DIY M21H with XHP70.2 5000K 6V. I’ve owned so many 519A lights and the 70.2 5000K easily impresses me by its sheer lumen output and efficiency. It’s relatively compact and has > 4000 lumens output in a medium throwy beam (default 12 degree bead TIR). The tint is blended well without much yellowing in the corona. Great throw and spill, just an overall really useful outdoor light.
I did lots of outdoor tests. At ~500 lumens, when my 519A lights struggles with heat, this light barely breaks a sweat and just keeps going on.
I also have many other types of lights with XHP70.3 HI and SFT-40. But this one takes the cake for offering the absolute highest efficiency and output with good tint.
