🔦 EDC Flashlights to Consider, or Avoid (AAA🔋)

These 5 Make the CUT (so far)! More testing coming soon.

0:00 Intro
0:43 Thrunite Ti3 V2
1:40 Peak LED Solutions Ediger
2:54 Lumintop Tool AAA
4:16 Olight I3T
6:31 Luminitop EDC01
7:50 Ultratac K18
8:38 Maglite Solitare
9:44 Olight I5E (and other single mode Lights)
10:47 Reylight Pineaple Mini
12:22 Fenix LD02
13:55 Luminitop EDC02
14:48 Mateminco CSF 03
16:59 SUMMARY & CONCLUSION

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[GarrettRockey]

Lumintop Tool AAA has been a mainstay in my EDC for a couple of years now. Relatively inexpensive yet reliable, and the 3 modes are very useful and easy to access. I thought my switch was going bad at one point because I started having trouble switching between modes — but it was just the battery approaching end-of-life. New battery, and solid once again. Takes up very little pocket space and it also fits nicely in the side loop of the Leatherman pocketed nylon sheath.

[unfi]

We use Maglite Solitaire clipped on rescue dogs on night events. Any flashlight will do but we find Mags is more durable etc. Great info mate. Cheers from Australia.

[bobbthompson]

I just got the Fenix LD02 based on your recommendation. I have to say that it is a nice little light. Very simple UI and it is a very clean looking and feeling light. Thank you!

[robch]

I have carried an Olight i3E on my keyring for many years now and it does everything I need without giving me a bundle of features and modes I'll never use or will have to remember how to access. It's small (barely bigger than the battery), extremely simple (turn on, turn off, single mode), tough, usable one-handed, gives a very good beam for a tiny torch, runs for ages on an AAA, and has never let me down. It just works, goes everywhere my keys go, and I can't think of a single occasion where I've felt "limited" by its simplicity. Perfect EDC.

[richardmerriam]

The Maglite Spectrum Series warm white Solitaire LED is an excellent EDC light. I have it on a detachable lanyard. Factory specs are 32 lumens which is minimally adequate for emergency use. Great video.

[Ryan_the_tinz]

The TI Pineapple mini is what I carry all summer. The new tail cap makes it hands down my favorite AAA sized light since it eliminates accidentally turning it on and the wobble of the button. Plus it can tail stand.

[nealcorbett]

I've had my MAG lite solitaire for 30 odd years. Still works fine, although the traditional bulbs simply can't compete with LEDs.

[OnusBones]

Nice. I have a few of these. The Lumintop EDC01 is very versatile with its diffuser. The Lumintop Tool AAA does NOT take the 10440. The Olight i3T EOS is bright enough for a night walk down to the mailbox, and unlike so many of Olight's other offerings, uses STANDARD cells; I think I have an Eneloop in mine. I have a number of the really cheap 1AAA Chinese lights, and they tend to be not quite bright enough for outdoor use, and have low-quality switches that corrode or weaken such that they flicker; one went into the garbage just now.

[TheGrenadier]

My favourite AAA/10440 currently is the Manker E02 II. Good modes, programmable low, angled head, flood etc. Great little light that i always recommend.

[DavidTSnyder]

My favorite so far has been the lumintop / mass drop brass AAA.
I bought the offering in the nitchia led and absolutely love the extra warm tone, and I love the flush mounted SS tail switch.
It's only got I think 80lm max, but that's as much as I need in an EDC pocket light.
I also love the simplicity with no fancy settings or blinking and memory and all that crap.

If I could change anything about it I would eliminate the medium mode, and have a deeper carry pocket clip.
All I want is high and low.


Btw for the peak flashlights, they are what I have been recommended by countless people as a flashlight that will practically last forever.
At one point I was fed up with having flashlights eventually fail or die on me over time, and was recommended the peak eiger as a light that won't just stop working eventually like I have experienced so often experienced.
It wasn't what I was looking for in other aspects though so I didn't buy one.

[michaelhoskins]

Glad to see the Eiger on the list. My brass Eiger is almost always with me.

[OddBall]

I'm super stoked that you like the EDC01.

For a Christmas gift I'm planning to get one in pink, then donate to a breast cancer foundation.
You get to pick the light, and control the donation. The available cancer lights are crazy expensive IMO, with very little donated.
The only real downside I see is that it doesn't have the ribbon on the light.

I don't know if this will help anybody, but I thought I'd share 🤷🏻‍♂️

Happy holidays everyone!

[donaldstrader]

Thanks for the comparison video; some good lights shown. At 17:55 I think you picked up the "E" from EOS when you were reading the i3T name, the "T" standing for tail-cap.

[fivevs]

I really like the streamlight stylus aaa version. So far it's my favorite edc light. Uses batteries and is balanced in the pocket. I find lights with more body past the end of the clip than what's above it stay in my pocket better. Shorties like an i3 come out when the clip hits something.

[Mandalorian_Man]

I'd also suggest the Manker E02 II.

It's a 10440/AAA right angle light, very small, has low moonlight.

[swanseamale]

For years my go to keying lights were the olight I3 eso and the thrunite Ti3, a few weeks ago I picked up a lumintop tool AA, running it with a 14500 and I'm blown away, I didn't know they made a triple A version, I'll have to get one.

[andrewjune]

I’ve got an old Fenix LD02 body with a Thrunite Ti3 head in a warm tint. Amazing franken-light and it’s been working for the better part of roughly 3 years.

[victorvannatter]

Great video, I don’t consider a AAA to be good for EDC as it just does not have the runtime. In that vein I’m ok with the simple single mode as it’s just something on my keychain that’ll barely get used

[lmaoroflcopter]

AAA and AA flashlights are my jam. Absolutely pointless having rechargeable lithium cells in a flashlight for me. I don't use them enough to keep them in good condition and when I do go and use it I've always found it dead as a dodo.

At least with an AA or AAA light it just works. I don't need dual batts, its just another point of failure, just give me a simple LED torch designed to run on AA or AAA batts.

[kingoftweaks]

The point of AAA is the smallest and lightest possible. The Lumintop EDC01 in this video is the one, but the lightest and smallest is the Nitefox K3 Mini, the same size and weight of Skilhunt E3A and Olight i3e, with multi-mode like the EDC01. Need to fix the next mode memory bug though (extremely easy to)