I’ve got a little stainless Coast A5, which I love, but its beam pattern is very, very much inspection torch. Dead circular, even spread.

Is there anything similar in body, but with a more every-day torch beam? I don’t really want some black knobbly military-cosplayer’s thing, I’m not too bothered about a built in charging port, I want minimal. I love the simple, smooth stainless body of the A5, it lives in my smart jacket pocket along with an elegant little pocket knife, I just wish it had a thrower-style beam.

  • @[email protected]
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    Those are 18650 battery lights. A 18650 is about twice the diameter of a AAA. 18650 is the defacto standard for flashlights these days because of the size and energy density.

    A 18650 is 18mm diameter and 65.0mm long.

    The AAA battery is ~10mm diameter and ~40mm long, very close in size to a 10440 battery.

    But you can’t assume you can throw a 10440 lithium into a AAA flashlight, because lithium voltage is lower than a primary (alkaline, etc).

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      because lithium voltage is lower than a primary (alkaline, etc)

      Other way round. But your point is still valid

    • @HexadecimalSky
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      Okay, cool, thank you for explaining that, I did not know any of that. Sorry it wasn’t of any help.