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At one point I got really into these chinesium LED flashlights. This is an old photo of my collection. I used to buy and sell them on BLF before they banned me for suggesting that some chink off brand companies were ripping off other chink off brand companies, lol.
A few key takeaways:
-The majority of the chink brands that sound like mash-ups of other chink brands are cheap shit. If the brand sounds like Thrunite, Reylight, Nitecore, Thrucore, Thrunite, Reynite, Acebeam, Acecore, Thrubeam, Astrolux, Coreastro, Astrocore, etc. then it's most likely not built with very durable circuitry and might simply "go out" one day.
-The majority of chink shit flashlights aren't designed very well in the first place. The UI's on most of these are unimaginably complex and unintuitive. Chinks who are too clever for their own good want to jam 137 distinct modes and configuration menus into a UI that only has one button to control it.
-The majority of these are meant to be neat gadgets, and nothing further. Waterproofing and battery life are not main considerations in the design, and indeed many of them are designed to burn through their batteries at the fastest rate possible to produce such a bright beam you can literally ignite thin tissue paper on fire with it.
-Also, beware of safety-limited features, like low battery brightness step-downs. Acebeams are among the worse offenders. Instead of just losing the ability to use the brighter modes, the flashlight literally blinks during use when the battery is down to about 50%. These are marketed as "high end" chink flashlights, but the actual product is unusable and a joke.
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