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I should also mention that a lot of reviews of flashlights found on Amazon praising things I would rate as absolute junk are probably entirely honest. If your

by Zak 9y ago

I should also mention that a lot of reviews of flashlights found on Amazon praising things I would rate as absolute junk are probably entirely honest. If your last flashlight used alkaline batteries and an ancient LED, or even an incandescent, anything using an LED from this decade and a Li-ion battery is going to look pretty impressive. That Li-ion cell might well be taken from a laptop battery sent in for recycling, and the charger it comes with might burn your house down, but it's still impressive to the average person. On the other hand, I've seen a one-star review for not including a battery. It never said, or even suggested that a battery might possibly be included. My conclusion is that Amazon reviews for most kinds of products aren't useful for much more than determining if a product has an unreasonably high failure rate.

mehrdadn 9y ago
Yeah, I definitely did find these impressive for the same reasons you mention... hopefully my house won't burn down with the charger I got (it hasn't yet)!
- Zak 9y ago
  Just make sure it's not this one: http://lygte-info.dk/review/Review%20Charger%20Bowei%20HC-103W%20UK.html http://lygte-info.dk/review/Review%20Charger%20Bowei%20HC-10... And ideally, see if you can find your charger tested here: http://www.lygte-info.dk/info/indexBatteriesAndChargers%20UK.html http://www.lygte-info.dk/info/indexBatteriesAndChargers%20UK... If it is the first one, break it so nobody else finds it and tries to use it, throw it away and replace it. The Xtar MC1 is the cheapest safe charger commonly sold in the US; they're about $5.
  - mehrdadn 9y ago
    Haha, thank you for the heads up :) my charger is not on that list apparently... it's this one (which is no longer being sold; sorry for the low-res image): https://imgur.com/VpPNswX https://imgur.com/VpPNswX But some of the batteries are on there with not-great reviews... I guess I might have to replace them?
    - Zak 9y ago
      Yeah, those batteries are junk. Try the Sanyo NCR18650GA from illumn.com.

by Zak 9y ago

mehrdadn 9y ago

Yeah, I definitely did find these impressive for the same reasons you mention... hopefully my house won't burn down with the charger I got (it hasn't yet)!

Zak 9y ago
Just make sure it's not this one: http://lygte-info.dk/review/Review%20Charger%20Bowei%20HC-103W%20UK.html http://lygte-info.dk/review/Review%20Charger%20Bowei%20HC-10... And ideally, see if you can find your charger tested here: http://www.lygte-info.dk/info/indexBatteriesAndChargers%20UK.html http://www.lygte-info.dk/info/indexBatteriesAndChargers%20UK... If it is the first one, break it so nobody else finds it and tries to use it, throw it away and replace it. The Xtar MC1 is the cheapest safe charger commonly sold in the US; they're about $5.
- mehrdadn 9y ago
  Haha, thank you for the heads up :) my charger is not on that list apparently... it's this one (which is no longer being sold; sorry for the low-res image): https://imgur.com/VpPNswX https://imgur.com/VpPNswX But some of the batteries are on there with not-great reviews... I guess I might have to replace them?
  - Zak 9y ago
    Yeah, those batteries are junk. Try the Sanyo NCR18650GA from illumn.com.