Your favorite lights in your collection?

Slim_Pickens · May 23, 2013, 2:23pm

Small

Maratac AAA Cu Rev. 2
Mag XL200: feels smaller in pocket than it really is
Lighthound AA: Cool XM-L, used with 3.2V LiFePO4

Medium

SolarForce L2T: Neutral Hi-CRI Nichia 219
ShiningBeam Blaze: Cool XM-L

Large

2D Mag: Neutral XM-L powered by 18650 or 3C NiMH (LED reflector)
2C Mag: Hi-CRI 219 powered by 2AA or 2C (LED reflector)
Mag 4C: Xenon II upgrade bulb, 4C NiMH (mostly for S&G)
2D Mag FM3V: Neutral XM-L (73mm DX reflector)

Don · May 23, 2013, 2:26pm

Small

Photon ReX

Trustfire Mini-02 - TLF Mini

The much regretted lost ITP A3 EOS Upgrade

Ultrafire C3 SS (93mm)

Medium

Solarforce L2m - or the P60 of your choice.

Uniquefire HS-802

Raidfire Spear or one of its clones

Large

Zhi Jun JD-9668

Varapower 2000

SRK

Huge

6D Mag

Any Blah million candlepower spotlight - usually with 10 minutes runtime and 12 hours charging.

jmpaul320 · May 23, 2013, 4:09pm

Dale · May 23, 2013, 4:46pm

Cool!

rdrfronty · May 23, 2013, 6:05pm

This would be my list of favorite keepers -

SMALL-
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Quark Mini X
Eagletac D25C Ti
Eagletac TX25C2

MEDIUM -
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Sky Ray King
OSTS TN31mb
Maelstrom S18

LARGE
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BTU Shocker w/XM-L2’s
SR90 w/SBT70

All of the small category and large category lights I listed above, I will likely never ever get rid of any of them. Those 5 are my absolute favorites. The medium ones I like a lot, but could live without.

RaceR86 · June 28, 2013, 3:56pm

Small:
Sipik SK68 - WW Nichia 119 (92 CRI) on wannabe copper
CNQ D4 - XM-L2 S6 7D3 (90+ CRI) on copper, LD-25 driver
Small Sun ZY-T11 - XM-L 2 T4 5B1 (80+ CRI) on copper with DrJones 2,8A Lumodrv driver and aluminium reflector from ZY-T29.

Medium: (Hard to chose three, but here goes)
Solarforce L2T - B5 SS bezel, S11 SS tail rebuilt with reverse clicky. Uses various high output high-cri drop-ins.
Intl-outdoor T10 - XM-L T5 5C (75 CRI) on copper, Qlite with 2 extra 7135 (soon to get XM-L2 with higher CRI)
CNQ OEM D4 - XM-L2 T3 6A1 (80+ CRI) on copper, Qlite (soon to get emitter swap, emitter to red-ish/rosy)

Large:
SRK - XM-L2 T4 5B1 (80+ CRI) on copper. Modded driver, average 3+Amps to each Led
UniqueFire UF-X6S - XM-L2 T4 5B1 (80+ CRI) on Noctigon, FL2 - 5amp driver circuit
FandyFire 9xT6 (will be improved soon)

Cool/various:
Vintage German Daimon
Fat flooder
Bling P60 wannabe AA light Nichia NW 219, 92+ CRI mounted on copper. 3 mode driver. About 2amps on high.

sirockalot · May 23, 2013, 6:25pm

ummmm lets see……

small:

Olight S10
Nitecore EC1
Olight o-pen

Medium:

Nitecore EC25
Armytek predator V2.5
Shadow SL3

Large:

Thrunite TN31
HD2010
Solarstorm

gords1001 · May 23, 2013, 6:32pm

Ok, needee to put luke in bed before I could photo these.

small, from left to right :-

edc 18650, ld25 2.6a driver xm-l 4c
trustfire t2 1.7a nanjg 3 mode xp-g 4c
cnqg d5 ar lense (Standard fitment) 3.1a two group nanjg xm-l 4c
cnqg d4 blf a8 driver xm-l4c

Medium

from left to right:-

uf-v3 keygos m10 driver xp-g2 r5 1c
C8 upgrade gords edition ios 4a ramping driver (3.3a recorded on the xm-l2) xm-l2 nw
Keygos m10 gords edition flamed
ios ramping driver 3.7a recorded xm-l u3 1c

Large

From left to right
Trustfire t1 ld-v 3a driver xm-l 3c
fit 40s 7 xm-l t6 awaiting driver, side switch and 3 x 26650 tube
Defiant 3c standard for now, kindly gifted by an awesome blf member.

Monsters

From left to right:-

Chicago x lumen grenade, 3up xm-lu2 dry turbo driver chicago x heat sink
Blf torchlite, mt-g2 5a 3 mode driver
Gords edition convoy l2 xp-g2 3d ld-v 3a 3 mode driver

These are my favourites for a few reasons, they are either my most used, hold sentimental value due to their involvement with members of blf, for example the chicago x lumen grenade was a cross continent group effort, the torchlite was part of a blf collaboration build, the defiant 3c was a complete suprise gift from a member. Some are not used so often but amuse me and are fun to use every once in a while, I’m feeling the urge to do another flame job so the gords edition c8 upgrade may get the oxy propane treatment. It should be noted that most of these lights are host kits and none have really proved a bind to build, there is a certain satisfaction to selecting all your own components, picking an unusual host and ending up with a decent quality light that is unique to yourself, most of these also easily rival the quality of branded lights without paying the premium.

Dale · May 23, 2013, 6:55pm

that grenade looks awesome…

18sixfifty · May 23, 2013, 7:00pm

Large)Trustfire T8 modified thrower out throws everything else I have by a long way. Trustfire 9xT6 not modified it doesn’t need it, massive flood, I can’t see how given the restrictions of batteries how it will get any better. (flood and throw, BTU Shocker)

Meduim, SRK for flood, Modded Small Sun ZY-T08.

Small C12 lightmalls XM-L2 U2 XIAOZHI NW

Very small, solarforce L2M in shorty mode XP-G2 on copper with very low mode and Old Lumens mini mag with nichia.

No tiny ones yet.

gords1001 · May 23, 2013, 7:09pm

I really like that one. its a 3000 lumen edc lol, it may be getting 3up xm-l2’s though once the house buy goes through and I’m ready to make a cutter order, I just have to decide between same output nw or more output cw lol

Haterade · May 23, 2013, 7:39pm

using my own size scale that makes sense for me…

Small
Peak Eiger QTC - high CRI XPG, AAA/10180
Zebralight sc80w - XPG NW 4200K
L3 Illumination L10 - high CRI nichia 219, white body

Med
Solarforce L2M - XPG2 7B WW, 5 mode
Roche F12 - XML T4 7C WW, 1050mA
XinTD C8 - XML T6 3C NW, 3 mode
Olight S35 - XML CW, usually use diffuser

Large
Fandyfire UV-S5 (SRK clone) - seems to be a good one [?]
Armytek Barracuda - XML 1C
NEED MORE!

As you can see my collection is biased to the smaller side of things compared to yours Dale. I need a couple more big boys in the collection.

Dale · May 23, 2013, 7:38pm

My scaling system may be confusing. Allow me to add some clarity. I lose little things. I carry nothing smaller than a P60… I’d lose anything smaller. Lol

Just found one of my sipik 68’s its been missing for 2 months. I have too many pockets in my coats.

Haterade · May 23, 2013, 7:40pm

Haha nice find! Love when that happens.

I am kind of the opposite, don’t have much room/$$$/use for the big badass lights. Still want to pick up a few… one day.

gords1001 · May 23, 2013, 7:41pm

+1 ish, I have a tlf mini 02 on my house keys with one of my recent knife purchases, no chance of losing them tbh, I am fancying building another 16340 light as I hate cells not having a home lol but I do consider a 45mm 3 x 18650 tube an edc (chi x lumen grenade) as it fits the screwdriver pocket of my contractors trousers, why go smaller if thats what you can comfortably carry? plus I actually use my various edc’s daily in dingy workshops or dark crawl spaces, light tint and run time is more important than tiny size for me. The tlf mini 02 is ideal where it is for dress occasions where a larger light wont go and looks classy enough alongside the pearl blue scaled srm h02 that its a shame to dirty either.

Dale · May 23, 2013, 7:44pm

50 shades of Gords, you sly rascal you…. Lmao :bigsmile:

gords1001 · May 23, 2013, 7:48pm

well, the up coming little bundle of joy was a freak accident tbh, mrs gords is threatening to use a blunt spoon to sort gords out if he doesn’t go to the nasty man and get “sorted”

Haterade · May 23, 2013, 7:52pm

bwahahaha you’re never gonna live that one down are you Dale?

Haterade · May 23, 2013, 7:51pm

YIKES!

Dale · May 23, 2013, 7:51pm

+1 lmfao