This will be my last post in this thread. Fenix E01. You might not appreciate all the suggestions for the E01 now, but you definitely will when all the other lights fail in 2 years.
I appreciate your passion for this light. Must be a good one so I maybe be getting one for myself sometime in the future.
But, I will not be getting this one for for the guys there for a number of reasons.
The culture there is very different from here in the States. (I see you are from the US)
Here in the US if we have something that is very important to us we guard it carefully and don't loan things out very often. If we do loan something we threaten them within an inch of their life!
There the focus is much more on family and community. (they may have a better focus on what's important than we do ) While this is great for relationships there, if someone came by and asked to borrow the light and my friends didn't loan the light, it would be a big slap in the other persons face.
Bottom line, I doubt that the lights I buy will remain in the original owner's hand more than maybe half a year.
I do have a couple friends who I know will be very careful with the lights.
For them I am thinking that the iTP A3 EOS as it has good run time as well as brighter mode if they need it.
For the others that I don't know as well, yet they will still expect somekind of gift I am thinking a light from DX as it should still be good enough. This way no one should be offended and I won't be out as much money as I have a family and all sorts of bills to pay for visas, travel, government paperwork, etc, etc.
Thanks for your desire for me to get them one of the most dependable lights on the market.