Flashlights

[hurley842002]

I purchased a Fenix LD-10 a few months back, and it's been my favorite daily carry light so far. Very bright for it's size, has a pocket clip, and carries very comfortably in my back pocket.

http://www.fenixlight.com/viewnproduct.asp?id=65

[DeusExMachina]

Streamlight TLRs are great for weaponlights. Cheap too.

I have a cheap Surefire I've never gotten around to upgrading that I carry on my pocket.

[TriggerHappy]

I was looking at doing a new scout light type set up for a shotty and maybe a new AR build. I have been told some of the Streamlights change outputs from recoil. That could be a bad thing, in a home defense type scenario.

[ldmaster]

In comment to the streamlight recoil thing... I wouldn't say it's true in my case, I use the TLR1-C4 model on my carbine, pistol and my shotgun. never had a change in output from them.

OTOH, I have broken a couple of surfire X200's and know a few guys that have broken theirs as well, surefire replaces them, but hey - once the confidence is lost you just dont get it back.

I do carry, exclusively, streamlight flashlights now. The rechargeable ones and the battery powered ones - they just dont break and they are SUPER reasonable. Lately I've bought their little military style light with multiple color LED's in it. Tried to abuse mine a bit, and it doesnt' burp. Multiple levels of white.blue.red.green and strobe function and they run on AA's.

There are, in my experience, occasional problem with ALL heavy use flashlights - the biggest questions to answer are:

1. Will the manufacturer replace them no questions asked (yes to streamlight and surefire)
2. Can I buy spare parts in case I break them and need them NOW. (again, yes to streamlight and surefire)

They serve a HUGE segment of the public safety market and with that size market they just dont mess with you on warranty claims - and the added benefit of local uniform supply stores carrying repair kits for most of their stuff. Usually it's a switch that wears on on a streamlight, or your lens gets scratched and yellowed and they replace it no charge and hand it back.

Can't get better than that.

EXCEPT for the nifty new light in my arsenal. The 5.11 "Light for Life"... It doesn't use batteries, it uses a new type of capacitor and recharges (I am not kidding) in 90 seconds from a full discharged state. I got the medium one (came out last year) and I am thinking I need a second one. A bit larger than the Centurion from surefire, but slightly smaller than a 2D cell maglite. If the other guys start using capacitors (I think they will within five years) then the flashlight game is a whole new deal, it will revolutionize flashlights the way LED's revolutionized lighting.

[sniper7]

I have bought several flashlights from dealextreme.com

my Gree cree single CR123 light is over 3 years old, works amazing still.

also got a couple ultrafire C2 flashlights using 2 CR123 batteries.
I have these mounted on my ARs with pressure switches. absolutely awesome. extremely bright, very good throw and spill.

the batteries are the cheap rechargeables but they work great, easy to charge and I bought a bunch of them so I always have plenty sitting around

[DFBrews]

Streamlights all the way on my end I have a stinger LED that has been dropped from the top of semi trucks ran over buy afore mentioned trucks multiple times etc. and it just keeps going retardedly bright as well. I EDC a Micro stream because it runs on AAA's and is not horribly expensive if i loose it.
/don't want to talk about how many stingers i have bought at a bill a piece though. must evolve legs or something/

[kwando]

for the price you can't beat fenix lights. i have 4-5 of them, carry one daily and have one on my keys. can never have too many lights.

[hurley842002]

I purchased a Fenix LD-10 a few months back, and it's been my favorite daily carry light so far. Very bright for it's size, has a pocket clip, and carries very comfortably in my back pocket.

http://www.fenixlight.com/viewnproduct.asp?id=65

Was using my Fenix just a minute ago, and realized how much I've come to love this little light, figured I'd bump this thread with an update.

It's been several years now, since I purchased the LD10, and I can honestly say I have probably carried it every day, and used it a ton. It's been dropped several times, submersed in water a few, and it just continues to perform. They have since come out with a few upgraded versions of this model, and I've been real tempted to pick one up (mainly for higher lumens), but this little thing does everything I need it to.

If you need a great EDC light for a great price, I highly recommend Fenix.