Originally Posted by
noglider
I like these flashlights, but they're frustrating for bike use. First of all, they're designed for maximum brightness, at the expense of battery life. Can't I get a good one that puts out 150 or 200 lumens and runs a few hours? I'd like it to be more floody than reachy. If it can burn TWO 18650 cells in parallel, it can run for a good, long time, but the two-cell models are just brighter, not longer lasting. I hope I'm wrong. Tell me I'm wrong.
Plenty of flashlights running on single 18650 cells have 200 lumen low or medium mode. I've used that for years before moving on to dynamo setups, then I retired these for household use, the high mode is way too bright for household use.