Handlobraesing
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$6 or $7 at Wal-Mart. Still kind of expensive in the eyes of the typical Wal-Mart shopper type.
I bought it a while ago and I never really used it, but I've grown to like it. I'm sure it's not up to flashlight maniacs' standards, but its quite good.
So it is about the length of a pen. The thickness of a Sharpie marker and the weight of a nice solid pen. The light source is a Nichia 5mm LED with the typical purple tinge.
Powered by two inexpensive, high capacity 2AAA batteries (compared to rather common 3 LR44 design) and has a primitive reverse clicky. Bundled with a pair of batteries of its own brand.
Not everyone has a huge storage space in their car and leaving regular flashlights in the car would often lead to annoying bouncing around within the storage area.
This thing is far brighter than a typical penlight and produces a pleasant, smooth semi-flood light that's bright enough for road side tire change. It's small enough to be stored together with the insurance and registration paperwork in a pouch.
It's nice to have access to flashlight right there. This thing is also pretty good for working on computers, assistant lighting with macro photography and anywhere you don't want blindingly bright light.
I guess the output is similar to an ArcAAA. You could probably do the samething with something like a Fenix multi-level thing, but not for anything near $6...
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