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Designed just like our popular AAA Aluminum Flashlight, the slightly larger Vega features more modes, significantly higher output, and compatibility with rechargeable 14500 and AA batteries. Made from lightweight aluminum with excellent heat dissipation, it’s available in four different colors to match your EDC Read More
Inexpensive, durable, rugged, nice ergonomics, great light quality powered by the most commonly available battery type in the world. You can always find a AA battery at the market, o el mercado, or wherever you find yourself in the world. Get one for each vehicle, one for the bedside table, one for the briefcase/purse, and one for each backpack and carry-on bag in the household. Too big for jeans pockets, so make sure you get AAA Copper or Brass models for your pocket, keyring, and/or purse too. Low first setting protects night vision and if you need more light it is easy to make it brighter. Use lithium AA primaries so shelf life is not an issue. Natural White is not quite as good as the AAA version’s Nichia LED, so the AAA is better for the First Aid kit. I would love to see a right angle version set up as a headlamp. Red, orange, etc as color options would be great. I would also like to see copper and/or brass as an option . . . anti-microbial surfaces are a good thing while traveling or in the backcountry. Also, using the small AAA switch button instead of a larger diameter AA button in future version production runs may help improve the ergonomics of the switch.
These are great lights! They are my favorite AA/AAA (indoor) lights. The illumination levels are nicely spaced and the "natural white" tint is perfect to my eye as well. I normally remove clips from my lights as soon as I get them but I'm leaving these on. They look good and are snug to the body of the light. They provide a roll stop and make the light very usable as a cap bill light. The switch is particularly nice. It has enough travel between "at rest" and "click" to make light/half presses (for mode changes) very easy to achieve and repeat.
I would to see some more colors made available. Red, Purple, and Forest green would be my next purchases.
I only tested with regular AA batteries, since I don't need too much light. The only downside of this flashlight is the missing clicky magnetic tailcap, but for the rest this is a real deal: very bright for it's size, great looks, excellent quality, great low light mode (could be less bright, but I'd say this is the reasonable maximum for a real moonlight mode). The extra twistable magnetic tailcap is a nice add-on, but it won't replace the original magnetic clicky tailcap. I'd pay extra $10 in order to get this tailcap, maybe more.
This might be the only flashlight you'll ever really need in your life, period. Unless you really need some very long range beam or long autonomy, for just casual hiking/camping or moving around in the middle of the night this is perfect: light, small, durable, convenient, water & dust resistant. It has everything I'd consider useful... and a spare twistable magnetic tailcap that you'll eventually lose and miss whenever you need it the most.
I bought two of these. a silver and a black. they have had zero problems. i frequently swap the clip and put it on my hat so i can closly look at my carnivourous plants. i ran an experiment where i set up a lux meter 9 inchs below the light and measured all modes then switched to different battery untill i got to 14500. the Drop battery reccomendations are true. battery choice should go alkaline<NIMH<<<14500. The 14500 really does take this to a new level, plus its rechargable. i mean 3.7 volts!!!. i also have the original brass AAA light from a long time ago, i think it was still massdrop and carry it around my neck every day, i still havent changed the battery.
is there cheaper flashlights available that are also brighters? yes. The vega and the AAA good enough for EDC YES. i love my lights, so does everyone else. they are great looking and i have had no problems. seriously though, get the 14500 battery.
Not worth the extra money over the tool 2.0. The “upgrades” really aren’t. Two tail caps is just silly. The push button is not smooth, off balance and the spring feels cheap.
The mag cap is ok if you don’t mind twisting, but you lose the lanyard hole. Another minus.
The clip is worthless, sits too high, to tightly, and cheap. It’s actually larger diameter than the tool 2.0, not by much... but just big enough to not fit in some of the smaller edc pocket carriers where the tool 2.0 does fit.
Overall very little improvement over the tool 2.0 if they were the same price, let alone almost double the price. Oh and it’s a studio drop that you are unable to return once you realize how subpar it is.
Love the size / form factor and aesthetics of the light. Clips perfectly into the space I had it mind for it and has a good overall feel. Brightness is entirely adequate for the types of tasks you'd use a light of this size for.
Both tail caps / switches suck. You can't set the light to a brightness setting and have it default back to it the next time you turn it on, no, every time you want to use it you'll need to cycle through every setting to get to the one you want. Inconvenient at best with the click switch cap, impossibly aggravating with the twist cap.
Why they even bothered is beyond me, the light isn't bright enough to justify lower settings anyway. User experience team clearly operates firmly in the theoretical "more bullet points = better" space rather than the pragmatic "manual-of-arms" space.
von_hyeah, a pretty disappointing light. I noticed that they removed all the original descriptions about the design of the light; they didn't meet their original specifications and had to adjust accordingly which understandably pissed off a lot of people. people saying 'it's a $30 light what do you expect?' and other apologetics don't really get it or just have really low standards.
What I'm expecting is a light that is simple and easy to use for its intended tasks. In this case, omitting a "feature" would have actually made it better. Why would you even want dim options on a light at this low output? It's foolish.
Great edc flashlight! Lightweight, four levels of brightness (the max setting is amazing for a AA battery light!), and I dig the aluminum OD Green color. The only thing I’d change would be to make the clip for deep carry.
I really like the light. The tail cap switch is recessed so you don't accidentally activate it. I don't have much use for the other tail cap and don't envision changing them out. There are 4 brightness levels and you can easily transition between them. My only wish list on this light is that it would be nice if it had an option to disable the brightness setting memory. It turns on to the most recently used setting so I don't know if I'm going to get low or turbo bright. If there was an option for the light to always come on to low I would give it 5 stars.
How could you give this thing 5 Stars? Seriously. sure, it's well-built, but it was a screw up from the start. the two caps thing is a joke and the tail switch is mediocre. the clip is subpar; the narrow part of the clip is too tight to fit over the pocket cuff on a pair of Carhartts making this light sit higher up in the pocket than it already does, which is too high. product failure 101.
update: 7/31/19. **hooray! It finally died.**
As a small and light flashlight it is made of a real high quality. Definitely warrants the 30 dollar price tag. You really can't go wrong with it. About the size of a thing of jumbo chapstick from duke cannon.