Best value micro light?

Melven

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After lurking for a number of months I decided to post finally! I am about to purchase 1200 LED micro lights (1 for each of the employees at the plant I work at) I am doing this as a stop gap measure until we can bring our emergency lighting up to standard. I am leaning towards the INOVA micro light as I own one and am very happy with it. I can get these for $4.95 each. Any suggestions on a different light? It must have a constant on as well as a momentary sqeeze on, be very bright and cost no more than $5.00. The purchase has to be made from a supplier willing to take a company purchase order.
 
you must be insane to pay 5 bucks per light when you are buying 1200. you can get photon knockoffs on ebay for $1/ea and if you are buying 1200 you can probably get them for around $.80/ea or even less shop around before spending them big bucks......or buy the lights from me for $5/ea and I'll take the profit
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I need good quality. The knockoff's I have seen do not have the durability and quality I am looking for.
 
Melven, what plant in Utah may I ask?

Watch out CPF (Esp. members from The Netherlands)--that's 2 in the past month...Utah will overtake Texas before you know it!
 
I prefer not to name my employer in an open forum, but I PM'd you who it is.
 
I have tried the Sapphire Lights, Photon 2 & 3 and Inova Microlights, the Inova is the least expensive and the one I like the best - although I think they could improve the clip.
 
I have seen other people not happy with the microlight clip, but I have had no complaints with mine. It has never come off my keyring unless I wanted it to. I only got my light recently, so it may be they have improved it. The pictures I see of the clip are black, but mine is just plain steel with INOVA engraved in it.
 
Originally posted by Melven:
I am doing this as a stop gap measure until we can bring our emergency lighting up to standard.
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Melvin, I've got to tell you this; it's only fair. Since you're into risk management or safety management, the parallels are there. Risk management of our facility, following what is called the "Spring Break Quake" in Oregon, it was decided that each employee should carry a small flashlight for their own protection should a catastrophe or loss of power occur. The chosen light at that time was the small UK 2AAA pocket light. For a small incandescent, it's not bad. The employees were delighted, with maybe a few of the ones inclined toward looking a gift horse in the mouth complaining that "there's one more thing we've got to keep track of".
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The problem: People started losing their lights, and requesting replacements. People started playing with their lights, running the batteries down. Instead of purchasing new batteries for their lights, they decided their employer should supply them with replacement batteries, with some employees requesting a supply of batteries for future use
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Needless to say, risk management decided that while the concept was worthwhile, management of the program was not as expected. FWIW.

Another light to consider, Melvin is Bison's coin light. It's small like a Photon with a built in clip.
 
Originally posted by jabajet:
I have tried the Sapphire Lights, Photon 2 & 3 and Inova Microlights, the Inova is the least expensive and the one I like the best - although I think they could improve the clip.
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Actually, I think the clip is its best feature! You can use it as a kind of stand - you turn it on and set it down on a table or something, and you have a hands-free light!

--Scrimmy
 
My complaint with the clip is that it seems a bit bulky when attached to the keyring in my pocket - I prefer a smaller, more flexible clip.
 
Empath - Although my intent is for the employees to have light if the lights go out. The light is being given as a gift to the workforce for meeting a safety milestone. The light is being given on a keychain fob that congratulates them on reaching 1,000,000 hours worked without a lost time incident. I had thought about battery replacement and already decided I will not be doing that for the employees. We hope to have our emergency lighting installed in approx 4 months so if 50% of the lights don't work by then, that will still be many more lights than are currently out there if the lights go out.
 
The free light would solve the battery problem (it's a solar powered rechargeable LED light in case you're not familiar with it)

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Not much chance of getting them for $5 each, but I hear there are older/cheaper versions around.

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This is the Forever Light, another rechargeable pocket light, it's a lot older than the free light (made by a different company) and probably a lot cheaper

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Originally posted by jabajet:
I have tried the Sapphire Lights, Photon 2 & 3 and Inova Microlights, the Inova is the least expensive and the one I like the best - although I think they could improve the clip.
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">I have 3 of these Inova Microlights. I was about to say something nice about them and this happen last night.

My wife has one on her keychain and she notice yesterday that the cover is gone
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. I guess it must became loose over time and fell off.

At least they are not that expensive.
 
Melven,

Take a look here, Countycomm are selling Pelican L-1's on a two for one deal (that's just $6 each)

Don't know how many they have, but at that price definitely worth looking into.
 
Thanks for all of the good suggestions! I am looking into the the free light / forever light option.
 
X-Ray - I like the pelicans, but $5.00 is my absolute maximum per light.

Roy - the extremeglow microlight does not seem to have a constant on switch, which I require.

I really appreciate all the helpful suggestions I have recieved - glad I finally posted at the CPF.
 

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