I've given it some thought and I think I need a smaller light as an EDC. Maybe the T1 is a good choice. Shame it does'nt have a low-output mode though which would be useful. Are there any other lights in this pricerange worth considering? grateful for all help and advice!
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The T1 is ok, not a blinding light but 1.5 hours runtime. A lot of people have the Nuwai Q3 http://www.flashlightreviews.com/reviews/nuwai_q-3.htm and like it a lot. Haven't got one personally. Another one to consider, a bit bigger but with low level output is this Nuwai http://www.flashlightreviews.com/reviews/nuwai_tm301x3.htm
John from Lighthound.com can fix you up with either of them.
HDS make great single cell lights, but they are more expensive.
I wouldn't take that as a fact, LED binning could be entirely responsible for the difference in output and runtime. It could simply be that he got 2 lights at opposite ends of the spectrum.