Small/tiny pocket LED flashlights ??

Rford · Oct 1, 2016

Fenix E35. I stumbled across the CR123 battery-powered flashlights a few years ago when trying to find a small, bright, light for deer hunting. There are a number of manufacturers but these lights are unbelievably bright and use a cR123 battery that costs about a buck apiece on line. Way brighter than anything else out there and smaller than a regular flashlight.

bcp · Oct 1, 2016

I have a dozen or two, cheap to medium priced. The ones with a square light emitter LED are all better than the ones with one or more "bulb" LED's.

Bruce

sidecarist · Oct 1, 2016

I have a couple of Nitecore MT10C lights, uses 1 CR123 battery, and way more powerful than even the largest maglight. Better still it can be turned down to just a glow and the battery lasts for a very long time. With 5 steps in brightness I can usually find a setting that works.

TomSeller · Oct 1, 2016

Stream light. A Knucklehead and a Waypoint model. neither is small or tiny, but they probably have them.

The cheapo small lights never last for me. I do have an old mag light somewhere.

4570Man · Oct 2, 2016

I've never had much luck with the cheap lights. The Nebo brand isn't even very cheap and I've not had good luck with them. They used to have a lifetime warranty, but it was recently reduced to one year.

dodge man · Oct 2, 2016

I also have a LED flashlight that takes 2 CR123 batteries made by Surefire. It has two brightness settings, the strongest is about like a single headlight on a car. Not cheap, maybe $60 and you pretty much have to get the batteries on line or they are expensive. On the dimmer setting the batteries are good for something like 40 hours and on the brighter 10 hours.

Gary Fowler · Oct 2, 2016

I have a Kobalt rechargeable knuckle head light that I keep plugged in to a wall socket in the house and it is super bright and the beam is focus adjustable from wide angle to spot and it will light up my neighbors porch over 100 yards away. My home defense pistol has a compo lazer sight and light that cast the brightest light I have seen from a CR123 battery. It really lights up the area even outside. For my shop, I have a rechargeable LED light for use under a car or when I need broad coverage and then my Craftsman LED penlight (2 AA batteries) with bright and dim settings. The wife bought me a headlamp that has a dimmable LED light the is also super bright that has a belt loop carrier for the battery pack (2 AA batteries). That pretty much rounds out my light usages. I also have some old bulb type Maglites that don't get much use anymore.

Oh, forgot to mention that Kobalt discontinued the knucklehead flashlight that I have. It also came with a removable snake head and a standard AA battery power supply in case you have to go a long time without electric power. I have no idea why they quit selling them at Lowes because it is a really good light.

techman · Oct 3, 2016

I use this: Lumitop

One AAA, waterproof, small and low cost. Great little light for the pocket.

paul

Gem99ultra · Oct 3, 2016

My good flashlight is a StreamLite... About 5inches long; $100+.

But my pocket flashlights are little 3" UltraFire flashlights; CREE LED bulbs; about $6. They use rechargeable 14500ah batteries that are about $3 each. I keep a couple of batteries in their charger.
The UltraFire isn't what I'd want for a very powerful light, but it light, small and bright. I have 4 of them that I keep laying around as well as one in my pocket most of the time. I call them "throw-aways" because they're so cheap, but so far after 2 years none have quit on me.

oh, and BTW, I have a slew of MagLites laying around. They're really dim compared to the UltraFire LED Cree lights, and eat up D-size batteries. They're obsolete these days, and are relegated to the bottom of a cabinet drawer.

LittleBill21 · Oct 3, 2016

i personally don't think cr123 are worth the cost, i use en-loops and fenix ld series primarily the 22 series, when you use a flashlight for 5 hours a days battery costs add up fast.