EDC light reccommendations
So, I've been carrying a Surefire G2X tactical that I swapped the original tailcap with a clicky cap a long while ago. I like the light, and it does meet my needs/wants in a carry light, durable, bright, simple. Since things have been rather cold up until the past couple weeks, tossing it in my jacket pocket hasn't been an issue and I have been trying to carrying a EDC light on me like the rest of my gear, gun, knife, mag, ect. However, with the weather breaking I am getting to the point that I am just getting damn tired of carrying the light, not so much due to weight, but the size of the light just is becoming more and more annoying for shoving in a pocket, and the fact that it doesn't have a pocket clip means that half the time I end up fishing for the damn thing when I need it.
Now, I have a SF titan on my key chain if I need a low output map lap at 15 lumens, and for lesser administrative tasks the 125 output on it would work. What I am looking for here is something more GP and that could be pressed into service as a defensive light should the need arise.
So over the past few weeks I have been searching around for a slimmer light that would fit my needs for carry.
Have broken my wants to more or less this.
1: single output. I don't need or want something where I have to click my way through half a dozen settings, or even just two, to get to the output I want. If it has the ability to choose my output like the older Fenix lights by twisting the bezel or something manual like that I would be interested though.
2: slim profile. would like the bezel to be no more than an inch or so, and the body to be a little bit less, a la the SF E2D if one needs a point of reference.
3: decent output, 200-300 lumen being about where I would like the light to be. Can be persuaded a bit higher or lower, as long as we aren't getting into stupid high or low lumen outputs.
4: Pocket clip. If we are talking a perfect world one that allows me to go bezel up or down and that I can get replacements for easily to have extra on hand because while I haven't bend a pocket clip on one of my Emersons in quite some time, it has happened and I like being able to fix things without waiting on something to be shipped.
5: clicky tail cap for momentary and constant on.
I will say this as well, I'd like CR123 as the power source, but am more than open to AA or AAA. Also the need for the light to be both durable and reliable are kind of givens here as well. some sort of knurling would be nice too. As far as price, if I can keep it under $150 that would be a bonus, beyond that I'd likely end up with the L4U mentioned below here.
So far the lights that I have found that have fit, at least most, though not really all, my wants have been the Vtac SF L4 lights, lack of easily ordering an extra pocket clip or two being the main draw back here otherwise I've likely have bought it already. Now the minis for that are only 110, which is a little light(No pun intended) for what I want, and it is hard for to have my Titan having a higher max output than it, and could be a bit short for me, the normal L4U with the Ultra head is a bit over kill and at $250+ ain't what I would call cheap. I have looked at picking up a E2D or an older one used and swapping the head to a 200 lumen scout head, but the issue that crops up there, is that for a big more i could just buy the L4U and swap heads with my old M600C and basically give myself another M600Ultra and have the output I want and a high output on one of my BCMs. Have also looked at some of the Fourseven offerings, and think that I may need to read more up on them, since I still ain't sure exactly how their set ups work.
So in short, for the wants/needs that I have here, what other options are out there that I need to look at. Am trying to be open minded here, and the only things I am hard set on is single output/manual non click through output selection and it being slim. Can fudge on the output, even going well above 300 lumens, and I could forgo the pocket clip even, if it were long enough to ride high enough in my pocket to be easily grabbed. I am just lost trying to find anything other than what I have already mentioned that fits my needs and doesn't have forty different settings or options that you can click through if you go button masher on the tail switch, which is why I am asking here before spending the $260 for the ****ing L4U.
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Originally Posted by Kain
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