Looking for a quality light in a compact form factor and most importantly no extra modes. I want a single button that turns the light on and off. No brightness settings and for the love of god no strobe mode and no colors.
Looking for a quality light in a compact form factor and most importantly no extra modes. I want a single button that turns the light on and off. No brightness settings and for the love of god no strobe mode and no colors.
Depends on what compact means to you but a good starting point would be Streamlights. They are basic and boring to most flashlight afficionados like average Toyotas are to car people. But they work.
I’d recommend looking at the Micro/Macrostream USB or Stylus Pro
Thank you for the recommendations. However, I just looked into these and all three have a high/low mode. I am looking for on/off and nothing else.
https://www.streamlight.com/products/detail/protac-1l-1aa
My bad, how about this one then? Yes it technically has modes but you can disable them entirely using the “ten tap” to make simple on/off and that’s it. There’s a few different lights with this feature but I believe this is the most compact one I know of.
I think the micro stream AAA might have just one mode but would have to check. It’s kind of expensive for a bare bones 1aaa light
Those super cheap 3aaa Home Depot and similar lights are actually usable though crappy. You might be able to run from an 18650.
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Defiant-60-Lumens-Aluminum-Flashlight-8-Pack-90652/320076174
It does. It’s a bad flashlight though. Everything (LED, optics, switch, threads) is different (worse) from the USB model, which I still wouldn’t class as a good flashlight.