I'll have to admit that it's taken a while but I'm really taken with this light! The TEKNA Splash-Lite is about as simple and unsexy as it gets. It takes one CR123a battery and is a twisty. TEKNA claims it to be dive rated to 100 feet. It's 3" x 7/8" and weighs only 1.3 oz. The output is pretty low by modern standards at a rated 40 lumens, biased a little cool (but not terribly so). The rated run time is 10 hours, which I can't verify but it does seem to go forever.
I picked up my first one last year for $25 or so, but over the last few months the price has declined to around $13 from Amazon with free Prime shipping.
At first I was kind of meh about it; not super bright and biased towards the cool end of the color spectrum. But over time I've really come to appreciate it. The tint isn't too bad, not like the older Chinese lights. Certainly not as bad as my Fenix EO1 that's legit purple! I appreciate that it's very small, and seems utterly reliable. Not much to go wrong with a twisty. It's super lightweight and has a split ring on the tail. So I guess it won't tail stand if that's important to you, although I suppose at the price it could be modded pretty easily.
To me the light has two killer apps; first is as a bedside light for general utility, the second is for camping/hiking use. In a woods light the very long run time is superb! 40 lumens isn't a lot but let's be honest- for daily tasks it's plenty, and for night safety (watching for branches in your eye line, illuminating the path ahead of you, gathering wood, etc) it's plenty. And I generally keep a Thyrm CellVault on each of my bags/packs. The CellVault holds three x CR123a (or various combinations of other batteries, natch) and is strong and watertight. With a fresh battery in the Splash-Lite and the Thyrm case you have 40 hours of very dependable illumination.
Today I just got my 4th one in the mail! That's the highest recommendation I can give, I suppose.
I picked up my first one last year for $25 or so, but over the last few months the price has declined to around $13 from Amazon with free Prime shipping.
At first I was kind of meh about it; not super bright and biased towards the cool end of the color spectrum. But over time I've really come to appreciate it. The tint isn't too bad, not like the older Chinese lights. Certainly not as bad as my Fenix EO1 that's legit purple! I appreciate that it's very small, and seems utterly reliable. Not much to go wrong with a twisty. It's super lightweight and has a split ring on the tail. So I guess it won't tail stand if that's important to you, although I suppose at the price it could be modded pretty easily.
To me the light has two killer apps; first is as a bedside light for general utility, the second is for camping/hiking use. In a woods light the very long run time is superb! 40 lumens isn't a lot but let's be honest- for daily tasks it's plenty, and for night safety (watching for branches in your eye line, illuminating the path ahead of you, gathering wood, etc) it's plenty. And I generally keep a Thyrm CellVault on each of my bags/packs. The CellVault holds three x CR123a (or various combinations of other batteries, natch) and is strong and watertight. With a fresh battery in the Splash-Lite and the Thyrm case you have 40 hours of very dependable illumination.
Today I just got my 4th one in the mail! That's the highest recommendation I can give, I suppose.
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