Guide To Choosing The Right Flashlight

Tactical flashlights form an indispensable tool for military personnel, police officers, search and rescue services and other emergency services. Also if you want to save battery life, but still want to see, you can always turn down the brightness instead of having to turn off the flashlight. Searchlight – Searchlights are usually the largest and heaviest type of flashlight. The Thrunite TI4T can put out a maximum of 300 lumens for 51 minutes out of it’s Cree XP-L emitter using two AAA batteries.

Relatively compact flashlight and made out of high-end construction materials, including aircraft grade aluminum that has been anodized with a rugged grip surfacing material, the Streamlight Strion is one of the brightest compact flashlights money can buy – and isn’t going to shatter your bank account along the way, either.

The Anker Bolder LC40 flashlight is pocket-sized and features an LED bulb. No matter which rechargeable AA batteries you buy, if you don’t use them often, you should plan to top them off on a charger about once a year. In the flashlight world this is called Hi-CRI which stand for High Color Rendering Index.

The uranium in Vaseline glass gives it the glass its bright-green color in natural light, and causes the glass to glow vivid neon green under a black light. Going all the way back to the 1800’s, the incandescent light bulb is arguably the oldest and most successful bulb type on the market today.

A tactical flashlight is a reliable lighting device that is durable with super strong brightness, military grade and can come in handy in providing security. The beam is AWESOME and brighter than my old mag light. Size – Tactical flashlights usually range between 4 and 5 inches long, mid-sized flashlights are anywhere between 6 and 10 inches long, and a full-sized light (for security) are longer than 10 inches.

Still, the ThruNite TN12 offers bright light output, easy operation, a durable design and an extended battery life when on low or firefly modes. I have owned several small tactical flashlights and was going to purchase one more from the best selling (virtually identical looking) small tactical light from Amazon, until I came across this M3 2-packs.