Show your nightstand flashlight!

[jz6342]

Streamlight is very underrated.

I once owned and still do a AAA microstream. I lost it one summer in my yard, after a year of rain, snow, mowing the lawn, and weather, I had found it wedged in the mud. I picked it up, clicked the switch and it turned right on. Worked perfectly. Few months went buy and the switch was acting up, emailed streamlight and sent my light in for repair, they sent me back a brand new 45 lumen model for free. Excellent CS and from now on I will always have a streamlight microstream as a backup

A few years back I rediscovered Streamlight and their ProTac and Polytac lines. I bought and carried the PolyTac, 2L, and my personal favorite tactical light - the 1L/1AA. I’ve never had one fail, but it’s good to know their customer service is as good as their lights!

 

[TimeOnTarget]

Custom brass from Matt at Lumencraft/Adventure Sport.

 

[hsa]

How and when did you get that. I don't see it on his site.

 

[gurdygurds]

Now it’s this guy. Very happy with this light so far.

 

[Dicaeopolis]

Elzetta Bravo flood with rotary tail cap and primary CR123s for full power light needs. Have to have my Malkoff single AA and HDS Tactical for moonlight mode needs.

 

[thebarefooter]

P60 with 3000K XML Mule, Copper and Current Leash Lantern with Amber LED.
Bottom MD 1.5 with 3000K M361 and HDS XPL. The HDS gets swapped out with a Haiku.

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Where do I find a stand with a bracket like that?

 

[greatscoot]

Where do I find a stand with a bracket like that?

There was a forum member who made those many years ago. He did two or three runs and then stopped making them.

 

[TnC_Products]

Here is the light on my nightstand. Now by the back door before heading out to the back yard, that is a different story.

 

[KITROBASKIN]

Exceptionally nice, TnC.

Primary for me is Fraz Labs QT 18650 because of the low, low.

 

[bykfixer]

Added another incan to the night stand last night

The one at the bottom is a signaler.
After sitting in a drawer for a few years I pulled out this vintage 1x AA using a #112 bulb on one end and a non locking button on the other end. Push button light comes out. Let go of button light turns off.

 

[cdaddy]

6d with Matt's 5000 lumen, ml300l 4d, gen 2 cree 3d.

 

[hsa]

How do you like that 5000 lumen, Mat Smith set up?

 

[cdaddy]

How do you like that 5000 lumen, Mat Smith set up?

Love it, but know your needs. He doesn't offer it anymore, its extremely wide, turns night into day for 50-80 yards. I'm talking like 100 foot wide at 50 yards, and I do mean day. The driver is pretty sweet with 20 settings. Map light is the lowest setting, and is suitable to sneak through the house. He has a great product, built well, no disappointment. I use it to light up the property on the way to the barn, but if I want too look for deer across the creek at 400 yards I'll use the 4d. These are generalisation from my memory, I would need to go test to tell you how far out it is useful.

 

[cdaddy]

6d with Matt's 5000 lumen, ml300l 4d, gen 2 cree 3d.

Sorry 2d on the gen2

 

[knucklegary]

Love it, but know your needs. He doesn't offer it anymore, its extremely wide, turns night into day for 50-80 yards. I'm talking like 100 foot wide at 50 yards, and I do mean day. The driver is pretty sweet with 20 settings. Map light is the lowest setting, and is suitable to sneak through the house. He has a great product, built well, no disappointment. I use it to light up the property on the way to the barn, but if I want too look for deer across the creek at 400 yards I'll use the 4d. These are generalisation from my memory, I would need to go test to tell you how far out it is useful.

What batteries are you running?

 

[hsa]

I saw a beamshot of that drop in somewhere and it was impressive. What is fun about it is that it is coming out of a Maglite.
I just converted an old 2d mag to a 4d and used the 800 firefly. It is a narrow beam but it throws really well. Has good spill.
I would imagine that ml300 is a good all around light. I knew that last one was a 2d. Maglite fan here.

 

[cdaddy]

What batteries are you running?

Nimh forget brand, white with green letters, you can see the beam on one of his you tubes probably. I'd be interested to see the yardage on that firefly. My gen 2 is impressive for throw for what it is, as you would expect from mag, very useful in the country, it is the cree. I have the terelux 310 in a 2d with AA adapters in series also, it's kind of in between Matt's and the gen 2.

 

[hsa]

Are these your batteries?

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Using 4 white eneloops in adapters the firefly gets 57000 candela or about 480 meters of FL-1 throw or about 200 of real throw. When the batteries are nearly depleted it still does 53000 candela. Still about 200.
My stock 2d does well over 42000 but the beam is more narrow than the firefly. That's the 168 lumen model. It will do it all night though.

 

[hsa]

Real throw is lab tested. That is, how far away can I see my black lab retriever and she can disapear in the shade on a sunny day.

 

[hsa]

And she hates coyotes so I have to keep track of her.