carrot
Flashaholic
I've been thinking about how great it would be to have an EDC, USB-rechargeable flashlight. It'd just have a Micro-USB port and you could charge it up with the same charger that does your smartphone, tablet, or e-reader. It would be very convenient with no batteries to juggle and no charging cradles to deal with. In other words, the perfect set it and forget it EDC.
This wasn't acceptable many years ago because everything used replaceable batteries back then but now that pretty much every consumer product on the market uses lithium rechargeable chemistry it seems only natural for there to be flashlight offerings that also do this.
Not every flashlight needs to do this and a rechargeable-only flashlight may not fill every need but I'm betting that for most of us a rechargeable flashlight would work fine for daily use, and would probably be a heck of a lot more convenient as well.
Internally it could use an 18650 or a 14500 or whatever, but the majority user need not know because it would be the kind of flashlight you never NEED to open, but perhaps you could if you wanted to replace the battery.
My headlamp is USB rechargeable and I can pretty much say I've never felt like I needed to run primaries through it. I've never even considered a battery swap because the life on a Li-Poly is not insubstantial. I'd like a flashlight that does the same.
I know that the Nitecore Smilodon does this and it's totally a step in the right direction, but it is too big and bulky for EDC.
What do the flashaholics think?
This wasn't acceptable many years ago because everything used replaceable batteries back then but now that pretty much every consumer product on the market uses lithium rechargeable chemistry it seems only natural for there to be flashlight offerings that also do this.
Not every flashlight needs to do this and a rechargeable-only flashlight may not fill every need but I'm betting that for most of us a rechargeable flashlight would work fine for daily use, and would probably be a heck of a lot more convenient as well.
Internally it could use an 18650 or a 14500 or whatever, but the majority user need not know because it would be the kind of flashlight you never NEED to open, but perhaps you could if you wanted to replace the battery.
My headlamp is USB rechargeable and I can pretty much say I've never felt like I needed to run primaries through it. I've never even considered a battery swap because the life on a Li-Poly is not insubstantial. I'd like a flashlight that does the same.
I know that the Nitecore Smilodon does this and it's totally a step in the right direction, but it is too big and bulky for EDC.
What do the flashaholics think?