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We got quite a lot of use out of this in the recent nor'easter. We very rarely change batteries, and my son has had this on overnight quite a bit. It's not a super bright LED, and I don't see much difference in the different light levels, but the tripod is great, battery life is awesome, and it's very sturdy. I plan on buying one for every room. We've had this light for over a year. All of our other flashlights have died but this one is still going strong after 3 days with no power. (tested by an 11 yr old extensively). Handy to keep on in the bathroom during an outage.
You can get flashlights that throw out a good deal more lumens for the same price. If the quality of the light is not as important as the self standing feature and run time, the $10 I got these for makes them an OK deal. The self standing feature seemed like a great asset and handy during winter power outages. As a few others have mentioned, it has a rather blueish center beam with a yellowish ring surrounding. The power coming from the batteries in each leg is fed to the bulb in parallel, so the bulb will only see 4.5 volts despite installing the additional 6 batteries "all 3 legs" The additional batteries should provide a great amount of additional run time. I am something of a collector of flashlights.
From cheap 3 dollar versions like you see as impulse items by hardware store registers, to military / law enforcement versions running over $200 "SureFire, Steamlight."With these tripod lights being so cheap around Christmas, I purchased 8 to give friends as stocking stuffers. Seeing that it utilized one of the new generation of "chip" based CREE type LEDs, I expected the typical very white beam. In a nut shell, I would say that if your looking for something that can provide a very white, long throwing beam, these fall short. The best feature that these flashlights do provide is the multi battery option. In recent years I have purchased several dozen LED based flashlights. These must use the cheapest of cheap chip type LED's that the market has to offer.
I have never seen this even from some very cheap ebay sold flashlights exported from China which use the same type chip.I think others have commented enough on the body design not holding up to much abuse.
Great and useful product. Batteries go into the legs and you don't need to put batteries in all three legs; only need one leg of batteries. tripod and tilting head allows you to stand the light anywhere.
The light has 3 intensities and its annoying to cycle through them. I bought this light in a 3 pack (it came originally with a key-chain, small and large version). All 3 suffered the same fate after very few uses. Its also not very bright compared to other lights in the same price range. The tripod would stop collapsing and would be stuck open.
but they can be manually open. Compact, light weight and easy to carry. I would not recommended for professionals/frequent users. Feel flimsy tho sturdy.Dumb idea to put the on/off button and tripod release button right beside each other. Good for occasional user.
The tripod release button just moves the magnet strip away from the leg contacts, so the legs swing open. so no point in that feature anyways. LED light intensity is ok for focused work like automobile repairs etc. but not great for work that has work area of more than a sq.ft.I use this as a emergency flash light in the car and it work great for that purpose.For the price I paid, its ok deal.
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