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akarsner
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Jul 5, 2019
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The flashlight arrived in a practically crushed box, which was hugely disappointing to see after having to wait longer than the originally promised shipping date for my Path light to arrive. The packaging was pretty plain-jane, there's honestly nothing to it. So I get a crushed, plain-jane box on a first production run product. Wonderful. Despite the packaging damage, the flashlight itself arrived in practically perfect shape. The additional replacement components (o-ring replacment & stainless steel reversible pocket clip) were also accounted for in the damaged packaging and were also not harmed in the shipment. Anyways, gripes aside, here's the actual review. I bought the cool white CREE LED version of the PATH with a solid copper body, mainly so that if using this as a search light in an emergency my eyes would be getting a broader range of colors reflecting back at them and thus making it easy to find what I need to find much quicker. Let me just say that the option to increaes or decrease the size of the flashlight and gain the capability to insert an additional CR123/RCR123 battery is pretty cool. The flashlight is indeed solid copper and while I wish there was some extra or deeper nurled grip zones along the length of the flashlight segments, the flashlight clip once installed makes reconfiguring the body so much easier because it provides a lot of leverage. The output of the cold CREE LED at max brightness while using two CR123s (full size configuration) is nothing short of a nuclear apocalypse. Seriously, even the light scattering from my office's carpeted floor became unbearable after only a couple of seconds. Thank god I didn't try out the first burn using RCR123's instead, which I'm told beefs up the lumen output pretty signficantly over the CR123 configurations. Even the half-size configuration using a single CR123 battery was almost equally staggering as the full-size configuration at max brightness. I also like the simplified brightness selection system that uses half-presses to step through each brightness level in sequence with the power button and upon arriving at the appropriate brightness level for the job simply push the same button fully in to lock the setting. If you're familiar with a lot of the other popular flashlight brands offered here on Drop, you'd know the struggle of having to perform half-twists of the end caps, doing a little dance of hokey pokey, and burning some sage while praying for the blessings of the woodland goddess just might get your flashlight on the setting you actually want. Overall, it's a super bright flashlight with size and metal reconfiguration options for the chassis and brightness settings. It feels solid in-hand with just the right amount of hand weight to it. The Path is super easy to program and lock in a desire brightness setting with a single handed grip, and it seems to be super efficient in power draw while making use of either CR123 or RCR123 batteries because I've been using this flashlight pretty much non-stop after it finally arrived and it is stil just as nuclear bright as it was when it first arrived. The Path doesn't have all the extra bullshit bells and whistles, it just does what it's supposed to do very well and with high efficiency in energy consumption. If you're okay with a lack of unnecessary marketing ploys on your flashlight purchases, then definitely jump on this one while you still can!
Recommends this product? Yes