I used a LEDtronics white FlashLED for about 2 months- got it from Ebay, probably the same seller as the one you saw. It was a nice light, about MiniMag sized with a clean smooth white beam (not too blue) and the push button was OK too, if a little hard to press all the way in. Thing is, despite having 6 LEDs, it wasn`t blinding. Fine for trying to read the print on SMT components at work, and good about the house too, though lacking in power for outdoors. A bit expensive for what I got, I thought, but it seemed quite well made. But.....then I dropped it. Admittedly, it was quite far and on to concrete. And it quit working right- the switch button broke off internally so I couldn`t turn the damn thing off again! I did manage to get it out and glue it back on but it didn`t hold- another smaller drop did it in again. Not to mention the LEDs were now badly out of alignment and there were a couple of dents in the head too
. At least I never needed to have to hunt down N cells locally
. I did try some 2/3AA NiCds which were OK but it was even dimmer from those and didn`t run too long.
So now it sits in a box (along with some of my other "less inspiring" lights awaiting testing) , devoid of batteries (cos it won`t turn off again) and waiting for me to be bothered to either find a replacement switch for it, or buy another one and then find time to resume testing again. But a nice load of stuff just arrived from Tektite (thanks Scott
) which should keep me busy fo a bit, so in the box it stays.....
There are better lights. I havn`t seen the NB8X but from what I hear, it is many times brighter, maybe 10x? And there`s also its smaller brother which would still overpower the FlashLED by a long way, and should have decent run time.
Or, if you want a more versatile light with variable brightness, the EternaLight range is a good choice and would probably be cheaper too (especially the "Classic" model), even though the flat profile isn`t as compact as the FlashLEDs.