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Originally Posted by Roguish Lawyer
TR:
If I wanted to carry a light with me at all times, in my pocket, which one would you recommend? E2E?
RL
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Like other recommendations, the answer is it depends on what you want to do with it, how critical is it that it absolutely work everytime, and how much you want to spend. I suspect that you want to use the light for the usual civilian purposes, like looking for something you dropped, reading or writing in the dark, or finding the light switch, or navigating. If you have serious social purposes in mind, like stunning someone ot lighting them up at 25 meters to engage with a firearm, that would require more lumens.
Eventually, any light with an incandescent bulb bulb will fail. The LED will not, and the batteries will last significantly longer with the LED. On the downside, the LED lights cost significantly more.
You should consider the E1 Executive ($78 MSRP, incandescent, but the smallest, 15 lumens, 1.5 hours, 2.2 oz., 3.3" long, a nice gentlemen's pocket light), L1 Lumamax ($125 MSRP, slightly larger, once cell, two stage, Red, Green, Blue, or White LEDs, .7/15 lumens, 50 hours/2 hours, 2.9 oz., 4.6", my favorite up close), the L4 ($160 MSRP, two cell, one-stage, 65 lumens, 2.5 hours, 3.4 oz., 5.05", very flexible, the counterpart to the 6v. incandescent SureFire lights), or if you have the space to carry it and want to do all of the above, the L2 ($165 MSRP, two-cell, two-stage, 15/100 lumens, 18 hours/1 hour, 4.2 oz., 6.06" my favorite "do it all" light).
Hope that helps, do you need pictures?
TR