Mini Maglite 2AAA LED penlight

[Robin24k]

Our review's been posted:

http://www.led-resource.com/2012/12/mini-maglite-2aaa-led-flashlight-review/

Still waiting on a response from Maglite's engineering team about the runtime...

 

[TheLightAtTheEnd]

I just picked up one of these yesterday at lowes. Compared to my aa mag led it is considerably brighter. I measured 340 ma @ tailcap with fresh alka.. seems high to me. Checked a few times. Same numbers. My old 2aa is drawing 78 ma at the tail

 

[revolvergeek]

Very interesting! Thanks for the review. I was not terribly impressed with the initial Maglight LED offerings, so I hadn't given this one a second thought. I will have to pick one up to check out.

 

[AnAppleSnail]

It's a pretty nice penlight. I like mine, and added GITD paint around the emitter.

 

[N_N_R]

Okay ... I've been thinking if to ask or not to ask this question .... why is this actually called a PEN light? It doesn't look like one to me. I mean, the head remains traditionally Maglitely shaped, which is nowhere near a penlight *think*. Also... arent pen-lights mainly clickies? anyway.

 

[AnAppleSnail]

Okay ... I've been thinking if to ask or not to ask this question .... why is this actually called a PEN light? It doesn't look like one to me. I mean, the head remains traditionally Maglitely shaped, which is nowhere near a penlight *think*. Also... arent pen-lights mainly clickies? anyway.

Mag describes it as "a pocket-clippable flashlight that's not much bigger than a penlight." I wouldn't call it a pen light, although it's similarly sized to Sharpies and slightly larger than standard pens.

I find mine to be a good pocketing size, although it might be awkward in a shirt pocket. I haven't tried that, as it's not long-sleeve weather here.

 

[Nake]

I just picked up one of these yesterday at lowes. Compared to my aa mag led it is considerably brighter. I measured 340 ma @ tailcap with fresh alka.. seems high to me. Checked a few times. Same numbers. My old 2aa is drawing 78 ma at the tail

Mine draws the same amperage with the said batteries also.

 

[N_N_R]

Mag describes it as "a pocket-clippable flashlight that's not much bigger than a penlight." I wouldn't call it a pen light, although it's similarly sized to Sharpies and slightly larger than standard pens.

I find mine to be a good pocketing size, although it might be awkward in a shirt pocket. I haven't tried that, as it's not long-sleeve weather here.

Thanks for the picture comparison with real pens! It was very helpful : ) Yeah, okay, the size of a pen, indeed, but the shape of... something else Thanks.

 

[bshanahan14rulz]

I was just gifted a Solitaire. The new, updated, LED version!!! Luxeon C, indeed! I wish I had kept the original battery so that I could do a runtime test for you folks! LED appears to be soldered to a piece of plastic, that's strange. Head doesn't get very warm after running for a minute or so; you can feel more heat by holding your hand in front of the light than from holding the light itself. Plastic SMO reflector. No spare bulb in the tailcap (lol). LED is amazingly tiny! I chuckled when I saw that the on-board protection diode is actually taller than the LED chip.

To turn it on, you loosen the head until the light switches on. At this point, you will have a smaller hotspot, larger hotspot, and some spill. Loosen further to obtain highest lux. Loosen further, and a four-leafed clover shaped hole begins to appear, its symmetricity a testament to the centering of the LED. This light has quite an impressive hotspot for the size reflector. ~16" diameter @ ~9.5ft., 3/8" @ aperture.

This feels just like a solitaire, except that it has the added function of being able to use that AAA cell it carries to output light! This is a nifty feature for a flashlight

Mine's in the same, beautiful, dark red as the AA mini above.

 

[Derek Dean]

I was just gifted a Solitaire. The new, updated, LED version!!! Luxeon C, indeed! This feels just like a solitaire, except that it has the added function of being able to use that AAA cell it carries to output light! This is a nifty feature for a flashlight

Thanks for the afternoon chuckle.

 

[Lord Flashlight]

I went into Halfords today and they had these on the shelf. I tried to talk myself out of it but I couldn't and bought one. Glad I did as it's actually a really nice pen sized light, brighter than the standard Minimag LED and with nicer center spot, in my opinion.

 

[martinaee]

I've seen these 2aaa mini maglite led's at Target stores for a while in Ohio. I don't think I saw the led solitare, but I wasn't thinking about it. Is the solitare supposed to be a single output light? If it was 15-20 lumens or so I'd be sold as that would give it decent run time. They probably are going to try make it higher output than that for the masses who don't know better and are wowed by the first few minutes being higher off of an alkaline cell.

edit: yeah just looked it's closer to a claimed 40 lumens.

 

[Lord Flashlight]

There are plenty of other LED keychain lights that fit your requirement. It's not like there's a shortage of choice.

 

[leon2245]

The size difference is striking.

I never realized just how much smaller aaa mini maglites were than aa's. Never even considered one lately even if it weren't for the focusing beam, because i'd still generally just assume have a single aa form factor for the size/performance, but no one makes a single mode with a spring, twist only, tailstanding aaa in the high-medium output range, much less in AA exactly what I want, and this 2xaaa is still plenty small enough. THe mini aa's body is damn near as big around as the aaa's head.

Still have to say, and all due respect as a life long maglite fan, i still can't help but imagine how awesome it could be if some co. like fenix did these specs to their level of quality. Like a 2 cell E05 with a little higher output, 50-100 lumens, it would be same diameter and less than 4 1/2" long! I now would be just as excited about that as I would be a AA e05.

 

[Chicken Drumstick]

Does anyone know if Maglite have changed the LED in these? The original Luxeon C MiniMag AAA was rated at 84 lumens. But the current ones are 87 lumens. Anyone know the difference?

 

[AnAppleSnail]

Going by eye alone, it looked like a bin change, but not an LED model change.

 

[leon2245]

Okay ... I've been thinking if to ask or not to ask this question .... why is this actually called a PEN light? It doesn't look like one to me. I mean, the head remains traditionally Maglitely shaped, which is nowhere near a penlight *think*. Also... arent pen-lights mainly clickies? anyway.

Close enough.

I think most 2aaa's in general are considered, even if not exact shape & size.

 

[N_N_R]

Loool, thanks for the picture!

 

[Agamemnon Jones]

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