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    Multi brightness flashlight. What's your mode change preference?

    Ideally, a two-switch UI, with: 1. Instant access to momentary-on turbo 2. Instant access to low For me, it doesn't matter what the order is, the click-click-click-click type UIs, whether they're L-M-H or H-M-L or M-L-H or whatever else, are lazy obnoxious engineering. And it gets 10 times...
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    1" body/head 18650/123A do-everything light

    True! All the specs are there, and with Fenix quality. Even with mode memory, might be the #1 contender, you just have to go through the (ponderous?) step of checking to make sure you used the light last on turbo each time. Hell, I could live with that, for all those other specs, I suppose...
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    1" body/head 18650/123A do-everything light

    Agree! FAntastic news if they fixed the delay. But unfortunately I agree with you on Nitecore quality.... at least anecdotally through the forums, it's a concern.... but if you're not worried about that, it ticks all the boxes. Thanks for pointing it out!
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    1" body/head 18650/123A do-everything light

    Thanks for re-bumping! You know, I was sooooo sure by now we'd be swimming in options. But despite the ubiquity of HI emitters, we're still mostly only seeing 12-15k candlepower. Really a bummer. DX3L is a case in point, really cool light, but not what I described in that initial post
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    1" body/head 18650/123A do-everything light

    The EDCLT-2 fails the 18650 criterion, and that's an important one . Wonder if it can run 16650s? SF's also usually have a their own interpretation of a great defensive beam, although I couldn't find specs, I'd expect typical low (12k?) candlepower from them but would love to be proven wrong
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    New developments/trends in LED flashlights for the past few years?

    We are increasingly seeing lights that are rechargeable, but the rechargeable battery is not replaceable. That is, basically disposable flashlights, albeit the product life could be years. I made a thread about this, and many people swore off buying these types of lights. I'm just a hair more...
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    What is the least important/most disliked feature for you in flashlights?

    I love burst turbo and use it often -- for my usage, it's an amazingly useful feature and I lean hard towards lights with that feature. Unlike when I'm using low or medium, in an EDC light I tend to use turbo mode in momentary bursts anyway, so it's a perfect fit. I've never heard of a light...
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    What is the least important/most disliked feature for you in flashlights?

    Heh, I'm the opposite. I feel like the most ridiculous, unacceptable, and cumbersome UIs are all one-switch. All it takes is a second switch to really give the UI designers some room to give a better user experience -- simple and easy shortcuts to turbo and extra low, mode switching separate...
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    What is the least important/most disliked feature for you in flashlights?

    Lights where the ONLY way to turn the light on is a long-press, IMO that's almost always because the light's button is badly designed, and it's too easy to go on in a pocket (viz. various Nitecore pocket lights, etc). I would not ever consider a light where the only way to turn it on is a...
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    Rovyvon Aurora A2

    I picked up the A5 -- the one with the white and UV sidelights. My one note is about the UV sidelight -- it does not fluoresce the strip in a $20 bill or the urine in my cat's litterbox (Conway S2 UV showed both were there). Wrong wavelength? Too dim? Even held almost directly against the...
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    Your view of lights with non-replaceable, built-in batteries

    I don't think smartphones are quite the same. I do abhor the current trend of making the batteries built-in and non-replaceable, and if you look at Apple, for example, the combination of "degradation of built-in battery" plus "cpu throttling as battery degrades" means extra motivation to...
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    Your view of lights with non-replaceable, built-in batteries

    I think I'm mostly convinced to mostly avoid lights with built-in non-replaceable batteries, unless they're not too expensive and provide some really unique value I couldn't find in another light. Even if the batteries last longer than I thought they did, the more I think about it the more it...
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    Your view of lights with non-replaceable, built-in batteries

    So many of NItecore's lights are so intriguing, and then there's one important detail they always blow ... buttons that get pressed to easily, cumbersome UIs (sometimes to make up for bad buttons), a killer tactical light that has a switch delay (really NItecore????). They could rename...
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    Your view of lights with non-replaceable, built-in batteries

    That's actually what I was going for! I'm hoping this thread gets me off the fence, to one side or the other. Either consider these types of lights without worry about the internal battery, or just rule them out... with maybe exceptions for very inexpensive lights This is actually the exact...
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    Your view of lights with non-replaceable, built-in batteries

    Wondering all of your thoughts on lights with non-replaceable, built-in batteries. Nitecore in particular has been coming out with a good number of these, but I see them from other vendors as well. One of many examples: https://flashlight.nitecore.com/product/lr10 My understanding, and...
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