With the flashlight you mean, right? ha ha

Before you get mad, I am only kidding. The door was open so I had to take advantage of getting a good jab in.

steelie,

Welcome to the forum!

Doug Ritter's Photon Freedom is great. The neck Lanyard atachment/push button cover should prevent the light from turning on. Or use the recomened coin switch cover. the Photon Freedom also comes with a clip atachment, allowing you to wear it as a headlamp, although I have on occasion used it as a lapel/shirt collar attachment. This allowed hands-fee lighting whear I needed it.

The Surfire G2 LED lights are very nice ifyou don't mind CR123A batteries. They are slightly shorter than a AA Mimi Maglite and a bit larger around.

Another decent light is the Inova X1, it is a single AA light. Unfortunately according to the website it has a 2hr. runtime.

The Fenix lights are good, as well as Arc AAA, and the others mentioned on this thread.


Just a few suggestions, in addition toeveryone elses.

Joe

Another flashlight to consider would be ZebraLight H50-Q5 using a AA Lithium cell if wide area task lighting is prefered.

http://www.zebralight.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=183

The Zebralight is very small in comparision to the size of the AA cell it uses.

With a Lithium AA cell the Zebralight gives roughly the following;

66 lumen for about 4 hrs
18 Lumen for about 20 hours
4 Lumen for about 96 hours

This compares to a typical microlight at 8 Lumen for about 4 hours.

With the Arc AAA Premium giving about 11 Lumen for about 5 hrs.

The zebra light is another good light.

However the runtime on high is actually closer to 1 hour and even though it puts out more lumens it is extreme flood with little throw so you tend to keep it on high which can cause overheating damage. Depending on your kit size it may be to big for your kit.

Other than that its a good light as well

I bought mine for the flood. Lots of lights have throw and such a tight beam to get that throw that they're hard to use. The Zebra is a very good light for close-up work. I've never had to use mine above the low setting.

I agree 100%. I have mine around my neck at all times. I got mine just before my deployment here to Afghanistan and its done 15 months so far without a hitch. No matter what I'm doing or where I go I have my Doug Ritter special on my neck. When I show people all the stuff that it can do besides just on/off they are rather suprised.

This was not a paid advertisement. (not yet anyways)

this maybe worth considering ultrafire c3

stainless steel version 1 x aa $20.90

http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.11133

lasts about 90 minutes on an eneloop 2000 bloody good light i have 2 of them and 2 more on order

aluminum version 1 x aa $16.86

http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.1993

here is a review of the 1 x aa http://www.light-reviews.com/uf_c3/review.html

i have 7 of these

aluminum version 2 x aa $19.41

http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.4452

with the 2 x aa runtime is about 4 hours

there are other versions that are multi mode or use the q5 led.
q5 model draws more power and has a runtime of about 60 minutes with an eneloop 2000

here is a review of the multi mode version
http://www.light-reviews.com/uf_c3_5mode/review.html

If you have room for it, why not a Petzl e+Lite headlamp? It's small, durable, wearable in many ways, has very long run time, and makes a useful hand held or hands free lamp for all your camp needs.

Yes yes, quite right, I swing several ways, but in the context of material acquisition and application. From a personal perspective I am a happily married and faithful heterosexual. LOL

Your levity is much appreciated. Always welcome a chance to have a laugh at myself. Keeps me from having to buy new hats too often.

hi dd61999,



The review at http://www.lightreviews.info/zebralight_h50-q5/review.html gives 1.5 hrs on high (66 Lumen) using a 2000mA Eneloop Cell at 1.2V. The Zebralight website quotes High 66 lm for 2 hr 20 min using a 2700 mA Sanyo NiMh.

I would expect more than 3 hrs using a higher rated Energiser AA Lithium at 2900mA at 1.5V. (The Energiser Lithium AA and AAA cells would my choice for reliable long term storage together with the 2016 and 2032 lithium primaries) I suspect that 3.5 hours may be acheivable as the Zebralight uses very similar technology to the Fenix Digital L1D Black Premium Q5 quoted at 53 lumens at 5hrs.

But your certainly correct to be wary of manufacturers claims regarding runtimes. Some manufacturers claims are wildly optimistic.