Best Flood Flashlights (including flood to throw zooms)

[Ragnar66]

What will you use it for?

It will be sit in my police car with the Deft-x I'm waiting for. So collisions at night/Search and Rescue/Marine duty etc.

 

[jorn]

Some small, but floody ones.

zebra h51fc, ti p0, univex aaa, lense light micro.
Edit: dident notice i was in the budget section. None of the above is considered a budget light.

 

[sol-leks]

I spent a little time hunting around the web for the kind of light I want and three lights caught my eye:

Smiling Shark SS-12
Small Sun ZY-T15
UniqueFire F12-B

I am leaning towards the Uniquefire at the moment because it's the only one I could find reviews for and the reviews I found were very positive. Also it has a U2 emitter. My concern though is it might not be that bright and that it doesn't take 18650's (although I prefer cr123's so not that big a deal).

The small sun looks nice and is cheap but doesn't specifically say it can take cr123's, although the input voltage looks right.

The smiling shark looks nice, has a good price and can take multiple battery configurations, but does not have a u2 and has no reviews. It also looks like it may be able to charge batteries which is interesting. I like the side switch as well.

Any thoughts?