Re: In search of the perfect EDC flashlight
Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2021 1:15 pm
my streamlight microstream came in the mail today. I'll report back later tonight. I expect to like it a lot as long as the clip works well.
the brown version has the opposite order, if that's what you're looking for. that's supposed to be more tactical, i guess, so they made it brown to go with military uniforms and it goes from high to low.
I own two of them. They're not bad for the price point, and the form factor is pretty good for carrying in a pocket.JRinFL wrote: ↑Wed Jun 23, 2021 12:01 pmI know nothing about these and I am not endorsing them! However, these flat flashlights look interesting. https://www.panthervision.com/product-category/flateye/
This was going to be my original recommendation, but it wasn't any slimmer than his PD25. However, this one is my personal favorite; I have the Nichia 319a version. Love, love, love the Prometheus lights!
How long have you had them?
Well Tom I do find it very interesting and somewhat coincidental that you would bring up the point that you have had some bad luck with Surefire's products. Because this morning I was listening to the John Moore Show on (www.republicbroadcasting.org) and he had a guest named Sam Andrews who is a well known firearms expert who is on John Moore's show periodically. He had a call from a listener who was complaining about a Surefire firearms flashlight in which you mount on a gun. Mr. Andrews who works on guns said that he has had nothing but terrible luck with Surefire's products for use on firearms in the past 4 years or so. He went on to say that their customer service was horrible to him when he tried to remedy the problems he was having. I was just dumbfounded to hear that.TomAiello wrote: ↑Sat Jun 26, 2021 9:03 amHow long have you had them?
'Dependable' and 'Surefire' haven't really occurred in the same sentence for me. I wonder if maybe they used to build good lights, and they've gone downhill. For sure, the Stiletto I bought in 2019 was totally dead within 9 months of purchase, and Surefire was unwilling to do anything about it.
I'm very interested in your thoughts on that Rovyvon after you test it out. I have a couple of their small keychain lights, and I really do like them, but the e-switch has some terrible parasitic drain which makes me wary of depending on one. I usually end up carrying one of them in conjunction with my Prometheus Beta QRv2. I'm probably going to pick up one of those new Microstreams. I prefer low > high, so the black one sounds like the right choice for me.
When mine failed, it just basically wouldn't power on. When I plugged it in, it showed charging, but when I unplugged it, it acted as if the battery was totally dead.
The microstream sounds like it could work well for you then. It has the dual clip but it really light, so it should work well clipped to a hat.Surfingringo wrote: ↑Tue Jun 29, 2021 5:23 amHey Vivi, I’m not really a flashlight “Afi” but I decided to buy something small a couple of years ago and settled on one of the Olights. I’m not sure which model it is…maybe the S2R? Anyway, I have been quite happy with it overall but the main feature that I appreciate is the dual direction clip. It can clip in the pocket but also has a reverse bend so you can clip it onto the bill of a hat. For me, this is BY FAR the most useful feature on the light and after having that one for awhile I would not even consider a light that didn’t have a dual direction clip like that. I see from your photo above that the Streamlight Microstream has that style of clip.
The only thing I don’t like about the Olight is it is a little on the heavy side and though the clip has enough tension to keep it on the bill of a hat, I would feel a bit safer about it not coming unclipped if it were a bit lighter weight. The power is beyond what I really need so if I ever replace it I am willing to give up a bit of power for something lighter weight.
Like I said earlier all of my Surefire units that I have now all use 123a rechargeable batteries. And I've been rotating 8 of the 123a rechargeable batteries that I got from Surefire>> and I got the charging unit from them as well. But I do find it interesting that in the past 2 months or so I've heard some complaints about Surefire's products. And to hear you and that gunsmith both in the past 24 hours registering complaints has got my attention I can assure you.TomAiello wrote: ↑Mon Jun 28, 2021 4:35 pmWhen mine failed, it just basically wouldn't power on. When I plugged it in, it showed charging, but when I unplugged it, it acted as if the battery was totally dead.
I suspect that the battery had failed, but I can't say for sure. I could have torn it apart and tried to figure it out, but once it became obvious that Surefire wasn't willing to fix it (I had sent it in to them), I basically just abandoned it.