Every time this deal is posted I pick my flashlight up to see if it is still working. This time it turned on. Last time it did not. That is the kind of light you're buying if you get this deal.
Generic flashlights are a struggle. You are left to do the QC, to take it apart, clean the contacts, clean the aluminum oxidation off periodically, and other troubleshooting measures.
That's the catch when you buy a generic light instead of the name brand equivalent that costs >4X as much. If you use one professionally or for emergency backup it probably isn't worth the gamble and maintenance, but for casual use a generic light is a great value if you just ignore all the fishy specs and look at it from a lumens:dollar ratio and as something that you have to personally do the last mile of quality control on.
Then again, most flashlight geeks buy at least a half dozen generic lights then finally splurge on a nice major brand and never look back... but they do that having those generic lights for misc purposes, that they expect to work because they have low miles on them.
I guess my point is, own one really good light then have a few generic spares scattered around for various purposes.
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That's the catch when you buy a generic light instead of the name brand equivalent that costs >4X as much. If you use one professionally or for emergency backup it probably isn't worth the gamble and maintenance, but for casual use a generic light is a great value if you just ignore all the fishy specs and look at it from a lumens:dollar ratio and as something that you have to personally do the last mile of quality control on.
Then again, most flashlight geeks buy at least a half dozen generic lights then finally splurge on a nice major brand and never look back... but they do that having those generic lights for misc purposes, that they expect to work because they have low miles on them.
I guess my point is, own one really good light then have a few generic spares scattered around for various purposes.
Thank you!