Good EDC flashlights?

Aginthelaw said:
I identify an edc flashlight as one that doesn’t come on in my pocket. I’ve carried the nitecore MT1c pro, but I’ll never carry their edc lineup of flat lights.They’re health hazards with the amount of accidental activations I’ve had with them. The shrouded switch and heavy activation pressure keeps it from turning on in my pocket. The rovyvon e30 angel eyes has come on in my pocket but I think that’s from the way I pushed the light back into my pocket. And after months of carry, it’s only happened twice. I’ve also carried the pokelit with no problems. The pd36r I’ve carried with the tube slightly unscrewed. I thought the olight seeker 4 mini would be nice but the clip is a pain. The baton turbo has a better clip and you can twist the tail to prevent accidental activations. Lastly, the arkfeld ultra’s are great for what I need so much so that I bought 2.
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If you don't like lights that turn on in your pocket try streamlight. I'm not a fan anymore, plastic lenses, poor quality current/output regulation, using generic blanket marketing terms instead of telling you the actual led, misleading lumen numbers. But they got me started into carrying a light everyday so I give them some credit. But their lights the switch on the tail is recessed. So much so I considered it dangerous relying on that light to illuminate threats when combined with my pistol. Because it wasn't hard perse to use but it's not pronounced enough to be reliable in a life treating situation that I'm going to hit it quickly and when I want.

I've since moved on to Fenix and a dedicated weapons light. I did deal with alot of accidental light turning on in my pocket with the Fenix lights. But they are so superior to the other lights I wanted to keep my fenix without it turning on in my pocket. Deep carry clip on it. Problem solved
 
Drop bear said:
I keep going back to headlamps at the moment.

Because it does something my phone doesn't.
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When I come home from work sometimes I have a red spot on my forehead from wearing a headlamp for hours a day. I can't live without em anymore. I still carry a flashlight so I always have a light and for certain tasks a headlamps not good at. But for most things a headlamps the bees knees man. Especially hunting and working
 
I've tried dozens of flashlights over the years, but the ONE flashlight that really stuck with me and became my EDC is the OLight Arkfeld Ultra
 
I've been finding uses for the olight Oclip, and while it won't be for everyone, for those who can find a use-case for it, I think it's compelling. I spent last weekend out at a farm using it as my evening/night light while wandering between buildings and making food. Worked pretty well. While the area was "safe" its only about as safe as Queensland gets, so spotting orb weaver spiders and snakes is a very "nice to have" on the way to the toilet tree in the middle of the night.

Fenix E30R is still a great working light, but it's big for EDC.
 
Just got an Olight Imini2 a different way of activating you pull the front out of the base and the light comes on and it has a strong magnet so it can be put about any where that a magnet is attracted to
Then putting it back into the base turns the light off, the tail end plugs into a USB Port to charge it
The lanyard I made makes it easy to slightly push the front out for short use

https://flic.kr/p/2r6wQmB

G2
 
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