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What would you recommend for a good AA powered Fenix light that would be a good work light but also be capable of tactical light levels.
Right now I'm using a Surefire E1B Backup, it's agreat little light but those 123A batteries are too expensive.
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The one I linked to. 109 lumens is kicking ass, like I said, until they can light someone's ass ON FIRE at a distance...
Mind you, the Cree LED in that thing, juiced by two AA batteries, is putting out what the smaller, personal sized Sure-Fires are doing.
If you want an excellent and absolutely dirt cheap light for your gear, get the Energizer brand penlight. Has a Nichia LED like the Photon Freedom and runs FOREVER AND A DAY on two AAA batts.
If you have long term storage concerns, get Lithium Energizer batts.
I have to continue to get CR123As because my converted ACR Firefly strobe requires them, but I just can't see using either CR123As or using incandescent lamps either for task flashlights. I use lights A LOT, you ain't hiding from me if I have that Fenix in my hand.
I also understand that a 2 min. recharge, as someone else pointed out, is of great value and that is the sort of thing that jacks up the price of a flashlight but that is a legitimate "jacking up" of the price.
Simply not making dynamite LED lights because then you would basically destroy your incandescent line of lights, :::COUGH:::COUGH:::SURE FIRE:::COUGH:::COUGH is B.S. Sure-Fire's LED lights are too expensive for what you get and they are never going to make them as powerful as their incandescent line unless they charge an assload of money for them because then they would be competing with their incandescents and they have to make up the loss somewhere.
Like I said earlier, I have been using Sure-Fires since 90 or 91, the first time I read about them was in the Cutlery Shoppe Catalog (Boise, Idaho) and I was like, "I have to get me one of these damned things." I bought a 9P and I've owned two E2es, E1e, M3 Millennium which was a beast, and a couple of others. I've owned Inova Microlights, X5s going back to the screw-head to turn it on before they were push button! X1s, CMG Infinity Task Lights, Photons going back to 1999. ARC Lights, still have one of them in UV. I have owned a metric shitload of flashlights. Still have an 8X Nightbuster, anyone remember that pig?
I reviewed some of the earliest PAL lights years ago on my website. I'm familiar with lights.
I sold my last E2e and to be honest, I miss the thing! It is probably the best light Sure-Fire ever made in my opinion, I just have CR123A fatigue in the extreme. I know part of that is from arguing with a branch secretary several times on why I needed a flashlight that took high-tech camera batteries that cost, then, 7.00 a pop. In the early 90s, they frowned on that shit. They were busy ruining our future by looting the company, so...who needs safety with your investigators/techs?
