Originally Posted by
slowpacer
I have a Fenix BT20 and although it's discontinued now, it's a great quality light. It's battery pack takes 2 x 18650 batteries which are removable, so you can carry extra set of batteries with you. I just visited Fenixe's website and they are currently offering 20% off on everything.
Prior to Fenix light, i bought a cheap chinese light from ebay and it only lasted 20 minutes per charge and had poor beam pattern. Maybe the ones mentioned here by other members are of better quality.
I always thought that bt20 looked nice. Yes there are better and worse chinese clones. If you do some research you can actually get decent stuff imho. The magicshine 808 clones (usually listed cree t6) are a spot light beam with a small spot, and alot of "spill" light around the small spot. They are good usually for helmet lights, or some people may like their beams. For more of a general purpose light, some of the dual led lights, "solarstorm x2" are better but quality varies greatly with those too. The bt40s on amazon linked earlier has a nice fat beam but does not reach as far. They are said to be of good quality.