What LED light of yours has seen the most run time?

Here is mine, i bought it back in 2006 for 30 bucks. i used it all the time at night as a coon light, being on at least 5-6 hours straight (on high mode) every night i would go. (i would normally go about 4 days a week)

i rarely use it anymore because C batteries have gotten expensive.





here is the LED (sorry about the poor image, my camera is 7 years old)




the insides




here is a shot of the "head" and you can see the "vents" (i've nicknamed them the "vents" cause i really don't know what they are for. i know when the light is on, the "head" gets hot, so i just took it the "vents" were their to dissipate the heat)

Before new lights started coming out every week like mushrooms I used for a long while my SF U2

Surefire 6P with MC-E drop-in. For a little over three years, it served as the main part of my bike light setup. I would estimate that the emitter has 500-1000 hours of use, primarily on high. I'd post a picture, but I'm pretty sure most of us know what a user 6P looks like!

Kilovolt said:

Before new lights started coming out every week like mushrooms I used for a long while my SF U2

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That is a beautiful light! Is it one of the old LUX V?

Well, as could possibly be expected by my username, it is a LED Lenser H7 headlamp. After I got the highend flashlight bug, I've added all sorts of items -- some logical like like a Klarus XT20 (light and bright) to very illogical for hiking like an SR95. It just sits unused:sigh:

Dave

Flashlight Dave said:

That is a beautiful light! Is it one of the old LUX V?

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Yes, if I well remember it dates back to 2005.

I've bought and sold so many over the years, but probably my Haiku. That has seen almost two years of EDC.

This is a picture of my old LED Lenser, 3 AAA tactical light with endcap clicky switch.

One mode, high power which I think was 85 claimed lumens? I used this thing everyday for 7 years. Got it at home depot for 50 bucks in 2005 and gave it away to a kid in need just last year. All scratched up and working fine.

Very dependable light. Dropped it, washed it in my pants, rolled it down the driveway... Literally ran it out of batteries as a handy man working at a 33,000 sf mansion. That is a job where you use a flashlight all day, every day as most of the lights in the house are kept off because there are so many rooms/nooks to light.

I found you guys last year and upgraded to one of these:

This thing works flawless. I don't like that high power comes on first, but I know why it does so I just suffer and click it through to low usually. I love this light but I think that it will live in my truck for emergencies because...

I just ordered this.


Well, not exactly that. That is just the pic at Mac's website. I ordered the Titanium XM-L version with the clip. No crenelations or glow stuff. Just the old light that I have wanted since I saw it in some pilots EDC on some random webpage a while ago. Good God. I may need help.

My most used light is my Surefire C2-HA with a Nailbender XP-G 3000k HCRI dropin. I love the colour and the beam pattern so very much, it's perfect for everything I've ever needed it for, and it's even better since the Sanyo UR16650ZT cells became available, replacing my old AW 17670s.

It's been dropped in traffic, thrown out of my hands a couple of times and generally had a rough time, but that light keeps on going and will probably do so until the end of time. I replaced the bezel with a Xeno stainless steel one because I was worried about denting the edge of the head and cracking the lens, but those fears evaporated when I saw how thick the lens was

This one.

My modded Propolys and my SS aaa Maratacs have, by far, the most hours on them. I'm a hunting and fishing lunatic!!!

Quark AAX NW, on 0.3 moonlight mode.

It's a bright floody moonlight mode, too bright when you first wake from sleep, but for me it hits a particular sweet spot of illumination vs runtime. With mostly night-adapted eyes it's just the right book reading level, more than enough for close task work with your hands, great ceiling bounce night light - I'll use it continuously for hours while camping and in bed (trying not to wake the Mrs.). The ~200 hr per AA runtime makes it about the only light/mode that doesn't run that nagging battery timer in the back of my head.

2012 D25A clicky has the same level, but as a AA/14500 moonlight mode collector, I find it pretty rare, and so bought multiple copies of both.

Eternalight Ergo 3 since 2002, thanks to Gandalf and Roy for the suggestion.

Oh whoops, completely misread the title of the thread (stupid me ).

In terms of which one of my lights has seen the most runtime it would have to be my SF E2L Outdoorsman.
Brilliant name by SF calling it the Outdoorsman - I can't go on a camping/hiking trip without it now! Been using it for about 4-5 years now.

Kilovolt said:

Before new lights started coming out every week like mushrooms I used for a long while my SF U2

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Still have it? I love this light. Simple two control function, beautiful looks, and rugged as all hell.

xevious said:

Still have it? I love this light. Simple two control function, beautiful looks, and rugged as all hell.

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It's always ready with fresh batteries inside.


Here's the U2 with some current lights:

It would be a toss up between my Malkoff MD2, TK40 and TK41. They were my primary dog walking lights. I think the E50 has replaced them all for that particular task. I'll still use the MD2 as a backup light when walking the dog, but the TK40/41 have become all but redundant.

Zebralight SC30w...it's been many a mile in my pocket and I use the most what I got the most. :thumbsup:

My go to is the Klarus XT11. I use that one light more than any of the others on a daily basis.

I have an Xtar Meteor that is catching up though, its a lot newer, but, its way more handy than I had thought it would be (~ 2.5" long, and 500 lumens, magnetic base, chain with lobster claw, etc.)

The ZL SC600 was very close.

The rest are used more situationally as appropriate. That might also be daily, but less as a default.

My most used light would be my EX10, got it when it came out and used it since as my EDC. I also bought the tritium piston and the clip for it. Still my favorite EDC as I never found a similar UI.

rayman