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I am in the market for a good flashlight to carry on my belt. I don't want a big bulky one and I'd rather not cough up more than $120 for a good "tactical" light. Would anyone care to share their thoughts or preferences on this? What do you carry?
 
I carry a $2 Rayovac LED penlight that I picked up at wal-mart in my right leg pocket (the EMS pants part) and have a $7 multi-led flashlight that I picked up at Auto-Zone in my backpack.
EDIT: Make sure to also ask about what steth is the best, which belt to wear, if you can carry a weapon on shift, and what kind of boots you wear :P
 
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Roger that JT Paintball!

I carried a $3 Skil brand nine LED light from Kragen Auto, a $4 two-AA incandescent flashlight with the bulb switched out for Krypton (another $2.45), and a one LED $3 light from Walmart. Oh, and my oto-opthalmoscope.
 
Can't go wrong with the Mini-Mag lights! Mine has an LED upgrade head and pushbutton tail switch with diff. levels. All total about $25.00, and works great.
 
I personally like the Surefire 6p but plenty of good one's by Fenix, Streamlight, Inova, Pelican and others. Being the cheap type I ordered some rechargable batteries off the bay for the 6p. So I now get the get the Surefire goodness without having to replace those pricy batteries.
 
Eagletac P10A or P20A2 are what I carry at work for day shifts My Olight M20 goes on the belt for 24s or night shifts.

The Eagletacs both have pretty impressive output, and both run on AA batteries.

Pick one of those up, plus some Eneloop rechargable batteries and you'll probably never have to buy another flashlight again.
 
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One of my old partners used a little light designed like that (but a lizard) that she got at REI. It was awesome. And kids loved it :)
 
emtmike11 said:
I am in the market for a good flashlight to carry on my belt. I don't want a big bulky one and I'd rather not cough up more than $120 for a good "tactical" light. Would anyone care to share their thoughts or preferences on this? What do you carry?
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I'm always serching for the perfect flashlight. I have the 100 buck Stinger, the new LED Stinger (which is a little bigger) and assorted old MagLights.
I have SureFire G2 I used to use on duty.
Right now, I use the LED Stinger every day, for cop'n work. while I'm on call for EMT, I have what I think Is the perfect little light. I got it at a hardware store for 15 bux.. it's an LED w/about 6 LeD's in it. about 3 inches long, rear switch. aluminum body and tactical silver color.. hihi,,, and it uses 3 AA batteries.
It's about the same size as the SureFire, but the G2 takes the expensive 123 batteries.
I use this light as my search light, I carry the little cheapie pen lights for checking eyes, ears.
 
I don't need a light, my orange "DOCTOR" jumpsuit is flouroscent enough to cause retinal necrosies :D :D

Seriously, a good long heavy Maglite with D cell batteries.
 
MrBrown said:
Seriously, a good long heavy Maglite with D cell batteries.
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I have two of three of these (one blue, one or two in black). great lights, but they never go with me on an ambulance. One is by the driver's seat of my car (with the batteries dead, I do need to get new ones), and the other one is somewhere in my home. I used to think I wanted one for use on the truck, but after a while decided it was not worth it.

Currently I have a Fenix LD20 http://www.fenixlight.com/viewnproduct.asp?id=66 on my belt, for use on my city EMS shifts. It's absurdly bright, but a little bit pricey. but a good light is essential when you are walking up steps in urban settings when there are no lights in the stairways.

I also love the push button tail cap, because it makes it easier to turn on that by trying to find out how to turn it on in the dark.

If I work in the suburbs, I typically keep a cheap tactical LED flashlight in my pocket bought off ebay. not as bright, not as expensive, but the burbs tend to be a little better lit.
 
DrParasite said:
Currently I have a Fenix LD20 http://www.fenixlight.com/viewnproduct.asp?id=66 on my belt, for use on my city EMS shifts. It's absurdly bright, but a little bit pricey. but a good light is essential when you are walking up steps in urban settings when there are no lights in the stairways.
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Out of curiosity how much did you pay for the fenix flashlight? It retails for A$99 here but fairly certain when it was first release here I only paid A$50
 
$54 US including shipping.
 
Not bad, and I love that it doesn't need expensive lithium batteries.
 
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