5Pack Flashlights Mini Led Flashlight 300lm 3 Modes (Light - Low Light - Strobe) Adjustable Focus Zoomable Flashlight

As seen by a long time geek for LED flashlights. Pros: Cheap, can focus single-handed, bright, uses one single AA cell. Long batt. life compared to incandscent. Bought 20 of them and gave them to friends and family, none of whom will appreciate the features. Cons: The metal edges are sharp, they could have been tumble-smoothed before anodizing. One out of all only has bright mode. I kept that one since I'd rather just have that one mode anyway. On one of the others, the switch is dying. It probably won't make it through one battery before it totally flakes out. I'll probably bypass the circuitry and solder in a long cycle flasher circuit to use it as a beacon. These things are cheap, cheap to run, fairly indestructible, and bright. If one breaks or I lose it, I'll just get more. They are great for spreading all over - cars, motor home, boat, by the TV so I can mess with wiring behind the console, in the bathroom for chasing slivers, hunting bag so I don't fall in the swamp at o'dark thirty, fishing tackle boxes, tool boxes, kitchen junk drawers, pantry shelves. Best cheap LED flashlight I've seen yet since the LED flashlights started coming out 20 years ago. True, the LED Maglites are nice, but they take more batteries, are heavier, more expensive, they roll (like off the dash and overboard, into the water!), and it takes two hands to focus. UPDATE, March, 2019: I've been using them for a year now and I still love 'em. One switch on one tried to die but I cycled it about 50 times and it stopped misbehaving. A few have actually had their battery replaced. I'm using AA batts, not the fancy 18xxx batteries. Guess I shoulda said last time that the current LED technology requires more volts (3) than two cells, of any size, will put out. If you notice, most LED flashlights use 3 cells for 4.5 volts. Sooooo, if you flashlight uses 1 or 2 cells, there will be a voltage booster circuit in your flashlight to get the needed 4-5 volts to run the LED. Why do you care? Well, that little voktage booster is hungry and will drain your battery(ies) faster than a 3 cell light. I've got a herd of the cheap little flashlights that use 3 AAA cells and they do last about 1/2 to 2x longer than these single cells. I don't care, these guys are bright and the AA lasts about 4-8 hours depending on whether you cycle it on or off or just turn it on and run it down. As of now, they are still my fsvorite handheld light because I can focus them one-handed. The big ol' many-D cell Maglights are still better for walking down a dark alley, unarmed, though. Both the little guys and the Mag-L are bozo-proof since I"ve managed to run them over..... sigh..... such is life. Anyway, still happy after one year.

Pros: Very high quality construction; very bright, selectable lighting modes, adjustable focus; can use either a standard AA battery or a 14500 lithium battery; great gift-suitable packaging. Cons: Selecting lighting modes could be a little awkward and not very intuitive for some people, though hardly a real problem. Super-stiff pocket-shredding clip, but easily fixed as described in the following info. No instructions on operation, and conflicting directions on the large box (correct) versus the directions on the individual boxes (incorrect) for replacing batteries. The quality of these flashlights, especially at a cost of only 3 bucks each, is so high that it really took me by surprise. Even the packaging is outstanding, with each flashlight bubble-wrapped and packed in an individual box, and then the 5 boxes in a larger box... very handy if you want to give out individual flashlights as gifts. There's just no comparison to the similarly-sized 6- or 9-led 3-AAA-battery flashlights you can buy everywhere for a dollar or two each. These single-led single-battery lights are far superior in quality and features. I think it's a real plus that they use a single AA battery rather than 3 AAA batteries in a plastic cradle. Those cradles are sometimes a problem with breakage and improperly holding the batteries for good electrical contact. The single led is made by CREE, an American company known for their high-quality leds. It's fun to see the led described on the box as an import component, giving a nod to today's global economy. O-ring seals under the screw caps on each end of the flashlights bode well for water-resistance, though you're not going to want to go scuba diving with them. I don't have much use for the lanyard that's so common on other pocket flashlights, so I was happy to see that these come with a nice heavy-duty clip. Out of the box, the clip is so tight that it's likely to shred any cloth pocket that it's clipped to sooner than later, but the good news is that it can be easily loosened by carefully bending it out a bit. It's secured by two small screws, so it can also be easily completely removed. Also, if you really plan on using the "security attacks hammer" (the semi-sharp flange around the lens) as a hand-held weapon, you'll probably want to remove the clip, otherwise you can add "hand-shredding" to the the "pocket-shredding" aspect of the clip. These are definitely bright lights, as tested with a single 1.5-volt alkaline battery. That's strictly a subjective judgement, since I didn't do any actual measurement of the light output. I assume they would be even brighter using a 3.7-volt 14500 lithium battery. English is not an easy language for native speakers of Chinese, as the description of features on the larger box will confirm. The descriptions are perfectly adequate, just somewhat amusing, at least if you're easily amused by awkward phrasing, incorrect grammar, and minor misspellings. (On the other hand, if you're a native English-speaker, try sitting down and writing good directions in Chinese...) Regarding the lack of directions, focusing is accomplished by simply sliding the flashlight head back and forth, which doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out. The switch appears to be a combination click-on/click-off and momentary-action switch. When the light is off, a full-click press turns the light on to the next mode of the sequence high-low-strobe. When the light is on, a full-click press turns the light off. And also when the light is on, a no-click press, that is, depressing the switch to only about the halfway-point, changes modes. Finally, regarding battery replacement, the large box says to unscrew the switch end, which is definitely what you want to do. If you didn't notice this, and instead try to follow the directions on the small boxes, which say to unscrew the light head end, you're going to be in for a bad time as you try to next figure out how to remove the reflector. Don't even go there. I definitely plan to buy more of these, and give them out as gifts... If I can bear to part with them.

All five lights work. They put out plenty of light. The price was quite low. What's not to like? UPDATE: April 14, 2018 I purchased this 5 pack of Mikafen lights last June (2017) to give to a family of five who were spending their vacation with my wife and me. We live off in the woods on a large lake and there is no light save what from heaven is by the breezes blown.through verduous glooms and winding mossy ways. So the flashlights were a good idea. There are three young boys in the visiting family, so they were out every night fishing, frog hunting, and following other young boy pursuits. Unfortunately, the youngest boy (seven) lost his light. Today, I was giving the lawn its first trim of the year and saw the sun reflecting off of something in the yard. I investigated and there mostly buried in the turf was the lost flashlight. I dug the light our of the mud and shook off the accumulated soil and debris and clicked the "on" button and was shocked to discover that the light came on! I cycled through the three settings and they worked as well as the day the light was lost. This little light had survived many, many heavy rains, and since it was lost on a down-hill slope, it had small rivers of water washing over it time and time again. It endured a couple of snows and many freezing nights. And after ten months it was still bright and still functioned perfectly. The battery is a standard AA Maxell alkaline and my hat is off to both the light and the battery.