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Originally Posted by XoXSciFiGuy
LED-based flashlights for survival purposes are dead. They are so last week, so last year, just like a MagLite with an incandescent bulb.
You can go xenon, but they are very expensive. When you see a Hollywood movie and a really powerful, bright bluish beam shoots around that monster cave, it's probably a xenon.
For smaller lights, the way to go is anything with the Cree T-6 bulb. This Link will take you to my favorite one at Amazon. I like this one because it comes with two batteries, the charger, the flashlight itself with five modes, (lo/med/high/strobe/SOS) and a cute snap-on end cap that makes your flashlight into a lantern. I have field tested this one and it really works. You can pick a squirrel out of a tree in the dead of night with it...at fifty yards or more.
Spend $21 on one of these lights, you'll never be sorry. Getting all the accessories, the extra batteries, and the charger, along with the white dome attachment is a real bonus. |
It depends on what you are using the light for. I bought a Rayz 1000 candle power LED light which is great for search and rescue. It uses 9 AA batteries, so carry spares, but seems to run a long time on new batteries.
For around the yard I use a little Harbor Fraught 540 candle power $10 LED flashlight, and for stumbling around the bedroom I use their little LED give-aways that run on AAA batteries.
My real survival light, of course, is a 120 year old Dietz kerosene lantern with a 1-1/4" wick. It was a great tool in a world lit only by fire, and still serves well on a dark and stormy night.
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