LUMINTOP Tool AA 3.0 EDC Flashlight, Pocket-Sized Keychain Light, Super Bright 900 Lumens, 5 Modes with Mode Memory, IP68 Waterproof LED Torch for Camping Hiking Emergency

I finally understand why there are so many positive reviews for the Lumintop Tool AA 3.0. From the first use, it became my favorite flashlight. The glow-in-the-dark silicone diffuser cap is the best camping companion. It diffuses the light perfectly, even on the lowest moonlight mode, turning it into a perfect tent lantern. The body texture feels great in hand and doesn't slip at all. That same texture plus the sturdy clip keeps it locked in my pocket - it's very hard for it to fall out. I love that the two-way clip can be mounted in both directions. The lanyard is not only good looking but really useful, and the tail power button is just beautiful - the best looking clicky I've seen.What impressed me most is the performance on a simple 1.5V Kodak AA battery. On High mode it's incredibly bright, it's amazing how the LED emitter and driver can squeeze that much light out of a standard AA. The little phosphorescent ring around the LED is such a thoughtful addition, I can easily find it at night on my nightstand. Highly recommended. Small, powerful, and full of smart details.

I have been looking for a good affordable EDC flashlight for sometime now. This LUMINTOP is priced right, the size is perfect, and it is super bright on it's high setting. It feels very solid despite its light weight. This is a perfect daily carry in my opinion.

To start off, I have DOZENS of flashlights from a variety of well known "enthusiast" brands in a variety of sizes and configurations, so I think I can judge this flashlight with a fair eye. I originally bought two when they were on sale (the warm versions). As soon as it went on sale again, I ended up buying two more (cool which I MUCH prefer). When it goes on sale again, I'm probably going to buy a few more. So that's probably a good indication of how much I like this little light. The best features are the size (small and slim)/weight/light output. It's weight and form factor makes it easy to hold in your mouth easily for two handed tasks in the dark. It's lightweight so I don't even notice it in my pocket. It has multiple brightness modes which for me, covers almost everything I would expect from such a small light (I do run a 14500 in it). The user interface is simple and straight-forward. The beam pattern is perfectly adequate for a tiny light. It has what I would consider a medium hotspot, then a slightly "colored" ring (a warm-ish ring on the "cool" LED) and then the dropoff with all transitions being mild. At about a foot away, the hotspot is roughly 5" in diameter. Perfectly acceptable beam performance for this type of light and better than nearly all "cheapie" flashlights I've seen which usually have a hard hotspot and not much else. If you look at the photos from other reviewers, that gives you a good idea. I was a little apprehensive about the dimly glowing blue tailcap, mostly due to battery drain concerns but after using for some time now, I don't think that it drains the battery much at all. I have not noticed that this flashlights kills battery faster than any other light with similar lumen output. Plus I actually LOVE having the dim blue light for locating in the dark. It's come in handy many times. The green glow-ring in the lamp is a nice touch, would be nice if it was a little more prominent for a little more glow. Getting back to the blue light and battery drain, if you're concerned about long term storage battery drain, I'd recommend you leave a spare battery or two with the light, which you should be doing anyways. For the flashlights in my cars, I always keep a few extra batteries with the flashlight, simple solution. For a long term option (up to 10 years), you can get 1.5V Lithium AA (non-rechargeable). Of course, the flashlight will only be as bright as using Alkaline AA batteries but it's better than no light when you need it. The brightness with a standard AA isn't bad at all either. Now the negative. The pocket clip. This light REALLY needs a "deep" pocket clip. Deep clips should be the default clip on any flashlight people are expected to EDC. And for the people who like flashlights that stick out of the pocket, an easy solution is to just mill in a extra "band" around the middle of body (possibly two bands, one more biased towards the tail, one more biased toward the head). This way a deep carry clip can serve as both a deep and non-deep carry clip in both directions. The clip is what prevents me from giving it 5 stars. One other very minuscule negative is that when you use a 14500, the "moonlight" brightness is a little **too** bright. With a AA, it's perfect. It seems (to my eyes) like it's roughly twice as bright so the manual's 7lm vs 8lm isn't accurate. It's more 7lm and 14lm. Not a deal breaker for me, just a passing mention really. So overall, 4 stars. 5 stars if they do a deep carry clip.

I just received the Tool AA 2.0 flashlight and gave it a quick tryout. I am amazed at how small and lightweight it is, especially compared to my Fenix LD12. However, it makes the Fenix LD12 feel like a tactical flashlight, with thicker, sturdier construction that feels like you could run over it with a truck on a concrete drive and it would be ok. But the Fenix is substantially bigger and heavier in your hand, and if clipped on a hat visor tends to drag it down. Both flashlights use a single AA cell and have several brightness modes. Both the Fenix LD12 and the Tool AA 2.0 come with the clip oriented to open toward the front of the flashlight, fine for securing to a belt or strap but not useful for clipping to a hat visor. So you have to pop the clip off and reverse it in order to clip to a hat for headlamp use. [**** Revision: while the Fenix flashlight failed to put the clip groove in a perfect place for the reverse orientation, the Tool AA 2.0 provides a second groove to attach the clip so it is centered in the flashlight and balanced for visor use - nice design!. The Fenix, on the other hand, ends up with the clip on the back end, causing most of the length and weight of the flashlight to be in front of the clip and thus an imbalance when clipped to a visor with the light extending further than desired in front of the visor. Another great light for visor-clipping is my old NEBO NU11K flashlight (AA battery) - it also has a glow-in-dark sleeve and a glow-in-dark end switch button. But it lacks fancy power management -- only one level of brightness, on or off, not super bright. A great camping companion though, and simplicity is a blessing in a pressure situation. *** end of revision.] I do like the Tool AA 2.0. It has a lot of utility in a very compact, lightweight package. I am a little ambivalent about how gentle a touch it takes to cycle through the modes, just a light tap on the end button (or you can uses twisting of the lamp cylinder part, probably not intuitive for me). I feel it is a little too easy to bump it into a different mode. It does seem to retain the last mode that I select when turning back on, but the instructions say you have to wait a few seconds after turning off for the memory to retain. I found that if I'm having trouble getting it to retain the last mode, holding down the rear button for a couple of seconds instead of a quick click when turning it on seems to help. Using an alkaline AA battery, the brightness modes seem good and useful, though the top two levels seem the same (I think the highest level requires the higher voltage lithium battery). I agree with someone else that an even dimmer mode would be useful for when you want to be most stealthy or just make out something to read without disturbing others. The Tool AA 2.0 beam is quite a bit broader than the Fenix or Nebo lights, which have more center-weighted spot beams. The Tool beam is nicely uniform across its circle of light, making a very useful illumination area for close working or in a tent. For outdoor use, the Fenix or Nebo may be more useful for targeting objects at a distance, such as animals, or for searching inaccessible locations, at a given brightness level. However, at max brightness, the Tool, especially with the higher voltage lithium batteries, would probably compensate for its wider beam and hold its own. A very good feature is that the battery cylinder unscrews from both ends (the lamp can come off and the end button can come off). This is important if a battery corrodes and swells and jams in the barrel. You have a chance of ramming it free. I had another cheapo light, about the same size but dumbed down, which only unscrewed from the lamp end. The battery jammed and I never got it out. So, I think it's a good light, at an okay price. Not quite cheap enough to buy a bunch and put them everywhere I want, though.

I originally bought this as a cheap replacement to substitute for my Fenix LD02 that I somehow blew up while I waited for warranty parts. I figured, what the hey? I don't have any AA powered EDC lights, only AAA, so I'll have a look at how the other half lives. I was not expecting much and was honestly a little worried that the AA battery platform would be bulky and annoying. I have to say, I am blown away by the quality and functionality of this light. It is surprisingly small given the size of the battery that feeds it and the bulk has not been an issue for me at all. Unfortunately for the LD02, this has now become my EDC light and has been ever since I got it -- even after I got my old light fixed. In addition to EDC (where I use a light in small-ish bursts constantly while I'm at work) I also use this and my old light for general purpose illumination when I'm camping as I haven't found a large powerful flashlight to be terribly useful around the camp site other than for showing off... The increased battery life from moving up to a AA cell is therefore incredibly useful. I didn't know what I was missing. This sucker is BRIGHT. It is the brightest light of its size I have ever handled. The beam is pretty wide, but not a complete wide angle flood so it is not totally useless for lighting up something 50-60 feet away when on maximum brightness. There is a hot spot in the middle that's fairly wide, and has a smooth but defined drop off to the outer flood area. There are four brightness modes so you can turn it down to something more reasonable. I generally run it at the second highest all the time, and use the lowest when I'm inside my tent in the dark and don't want to blind myself. Switching modes is as simple as a half press of the tailcap button when the light is on. This light has a mode memory and actually remembers the setting it was left on (unlike some others I could mention which start with "o" and end with "light"). You can set it and forget it. My only complaint is that the bit that sticks out around the tailcap switch (which has the lanyard holes in it as well) sticks out a little too far and makes the button hard to press in some orientations. I also like how the clip is reversed from a lot of lights and has the closed end towards the emitter. So you can clip it to the brim of your hat and use it as a ghetto headlamp, but without the need for a bulky out-and-back S bend clip that snags on everything. It's kind of heavy for that, but it works in a pinch. You can remove the pocket clip and flip it around the other way (!) if you want to, which is a feature I have never seen before. It comes with a little silicone diffuser thing so you can use it as a mini-lantern inside your tent or similar. The diffuser glows in the dark which makes it fun to play with, but I am too lazy to keep track of it in my camping stuff so I leave it at home. It has a strobe mode I will never use, which is accessed via SEXTUPLE (6 times) clicking the tailcap. This is great, because it means I will never accidentally activate the strobe or have to toggle past it when adjusting brightness when I don't particularly feel like blinding myself for no reason. I wish more manufacturers would make their strobe work this way. (Or just omit it entirely.)

This flashlight checks the boxes for me as an EDC flashlight: 1) small and compact; 2) AA battery powered/no fixed internal battery; 3) durable; 4) bright; 5) easy UI. This is my third Lumintop Tool AA 2.0. Over the years I have had three Fenix flashlights die on me, so I'm done with Fenix. Of my seven Lumintop flashlights, all are still working. The Tool AA is bigger than the AAA model, but the AA battery lasts much longer that the AAA version and is much brighter. There AAA model is used strictly as a backup flashlight. I use rechargeable AA batteries to prevent damage from alkaline battery leakage, and when the battery does run down, I can instantly replace it with a fresh battery. Fixed internal batteries means that when the internal battery can no longer hold a charge, the entire flashlight is no longer usable. Also, the flashlight cannot be used while the fixed internal battery is being charged. The user interface is simple and easy to use. It has 4 power levels from candlelight to very bright. Just tap the tail button to change power levels, and the memory keeps the last power setting after switching off. Also, the tail is flat so you can stand the flashlight up in candle mode. The only thing I would change is to add a dual direction pocket clip so you can clip it to the bill of a cap. But a simple remedy is to use a 5/8" binder clip on the side of the bill to hold the clip for hands free light. Or a rubber band around the bill will also hold the flashlight forward. Even a regular paper clip on the side of the bill can work in a pinch.

Amazing AA light. This is my second Lumintop purchase. The first was around 6 years ago. It was well crafted and still performs well. I like small lights and it was a bit large for my tastes. It also used a tail cap switch, but I prefer twist on/off so it does not bump and drain This one is small. Still throws a great ligjt, and ramps up from dim to bright. The tail cap button OR twist is really great. I also love the glow in the dark rubber cap defused light. Seems like it will be a perfect tent light. Looking forward to trying this out on summer motorcycle touring. Very impressed so far. Updated for Tool AA 2.0. -------------------------------- So I love these lights. After buying the Tool AA I bought a Tool AAA and Worm AAA. All great. I also bought some EBL Li-Ion batteries and charger to see the high output. Also great. One thing that struck me is that all these single cell lights had the same max runtime of about 28 hours regardless of AAA, AA(all types). For the different batteries to get different light outputs, but nearly identical runtimes. That makes the Tool AAA pretty amazing, except for the missing glowing defuser cap provided with the Tool AA. I mostly use these on low and would prefer a low output for an even longer time when used with a super capacity battery. A partial answer is the Tool AA 2.0. In a way it's backwards, you get the longer 60hour runtime with the Nickel-Metal Hydride batteries. They also added one more brightness level (four total) that is even more lumins than the original Tool AA. Identical form and features except they added a memory (and the extra high lumin level). I still really appreciate the lack of flashing modes! The higher output is visibly brighter than the older Tool AA. For my use I almost always want to start with lower lumins, so the memory actually isn't a feature for me. I like the idea of getting more runtime at lower levels. For my use they could shift the lumins down even further. My old 4Sevens moonlight half llumin output is good enough to check your watch, navigate a path, see inside your tent, or take a close look at something. I would be happiest to see ultra low & high modes work with the Li-Ion cell, with low level runtimes approaching a 1 week. Very much like all of the Lumintop product offerings! [updated 5/18/2020] Just ordered the new "blue tail light" version. It appears to behave like the last "Tool AA", the one with memory. When running on an alkaline AA the blue tail cap is NOT lit. Using an "EBL INR 14500 800mAh 3.7v Li-ion" causes the tailcap to light up a dim blue. Not a strong blue, but enough to locate the light in the dark. This seems like it would be useful in a tent at night, or whenever you know you might need to locate it in the dark. Sure it is draining the battery a little, but if that's a problem just slightly unscrew either end until it goes dark. It's actually kind of nice because I do that normally so it doesn't get bumped on. Now it's very easy to tell if it's unscrewed enough. Still very happy with all the Lumintop lights I have. Each one was purchased at full price, and I have no relationship with this company beyond being a happy customer of their small lights.

Lumintop Tool AA 2.0 Emitter: Cree XP-L HD LED Max Output: 650 Lumens Colour Temperature: 6500K Cool White • 5 Modes: Low, Med, High, Turbo, Strobe • Turbo Mode: Ad shows various times based on battery used. Manual does not say if there is a timed step-down so one would have to assume its full on until the battery dies. • Strobe: When the light is on, 6 half-presses will enter strobe mode (not sure if this a Pro or Con). Blinky modes is a mixed bag as to their usefulness, the extra steps to get there with this light will not have you turning this mode on by accident. If you like lights to jump into strobe quick, this is not for you. A quick double tap would have been easier, 6 taps is too much. • Mode Memory: Device will memorize last output level (excluding strobe), two seconds after the light is turned off • Light Operation: Reverse-Click or Twist Output: • 14500: Low 16Lm, Med 85Lm, High 360Lm, Turbo 650Lm • Alkaline: Low 3.7Lm, Med 28Lm, High 140Lm, Turbo 220Lm • NiMH: Low 3.7Lm, Med 28Lm, High 140Lm, Turbo 270Lm Runtime: • 14500: Low 37hr, Med 6hr 9min, High 79min, Turbo 33min • Alkaline: Low 60hr, Med 11hr 50min, High 49min, Turbo 21min • NiMH: Low 60hr, Med 12hr 30min, High 2hr 33min, Turbo 43min Specs: Distance: 127m (max) Intensity: 3420cd (max) Impact Resistance: 1.5m Waterproof: IPX8 (2m) Size: 89.5mm x 18.5mm Weight: 23.5g (excluding battery) Working Voltage: 0.8V-4.2V Battery: AA/14500 Li-ion (button top) Light Operation: Tail-Click or Twist Reflector: Smooth What is Included: 1) Lumintop Tool AA 2.0 2) Diffuser 3) 2 O-Rings 4) Lanyard (black) 5) User Guide 6) **No Warranty Card** (as shown in ad), Ad says Warranty Card is included, User Guide says Warranty Card is included. Did not receive one, no biggie. What is not Included: 1) Storage Box (included with original Tool AA) 2) Magnetic Tail Cap (included with original Tool AA) Pros 1) Slightly shorter than the original Lumintop Tool AA by about 2mm 2) Lanyard is now black, a purple one was provided with the original Lumintop Tool AA (certainly would like to know the reason for that) 3) Device will memorize last output level (excluding strobe), two seconds after the light is turned off. Original Tool AA does not have mode memory, always starts in Low mode and has 3 light levels only (Low, Med, High), no Turbo, no blinky lights. Cons 1) 14500 Flat Top will NOT work. There is a ring around the connection point in the head so it prevents contact with a flat top. See photo. The easiest way to get around that would be to put a blob of solder in the ring so a flat top will make contact. Your other choice would be to remove it or file it down. I don't understand these vendors, anyone who markets a Li-ion flashlight would know if a flat top or button top is required, yet nowhere in the ad is this mentioned. In the world of Li-ion flashlights this is a critical piece of information. The body of the original Lumintop Tool AA is identical to the 2.0. If you have a spare original head, it will fit and work with a flat top. You lose Turbo, Strobe and Memory though. It just becomes an original Tool AA. If you do not own 14500's with a button top it is an extra spend for you. If you have them or just plan on using primaries or NiMH batteries then you are set. 2) Carry Case and Magnetic Tail Cap is no longer provided. Device comes packaged in a cardboard box with a foam insert. To hide a price increase, the vendor has decided to downsize by excluding the carry case and magnetic tail cap. I get it, everyone has to make a buck but it's a bummer. You can operate the light by using the tail-click button, it's a reverse-clicky. If you prefer, it can also be operated by twisting the head or tail. Tail-Click operation is way easier because it can be done one handed, even with gloves on. I returned it, the deal breaker for me was there is no mention in the ad that a flat top Li-ion is not usable. They should have mentioned this design change and explained the rationale for doing it. I have the original Tool AA and when the 2.0 popped up on a lightning deal, I purchased. If the ad was upfront that flat tops were no longer supported, a buyer would be making an informed decision then and there. I was expecting I could use the ones I already have, not having to spend more to make it work. I use Li-ion for the superior output, the reason for buying this light. Fit and Finish is excellent, a great EDC light. An extra light mode, turbo has been added. Instead of strobe, I would like to have seen a stuttering mode instead, strobe is overrated. Why not 5-Stars 1. No mention of what type of Li-ion the light will accept. This leads the buyer thinking any type will work. Those who want to use a Li-ion and just have flat tops, prepare to break out your wallet or get your soldering iron out. 2. Poor strobe activation choice, six taps needed, two is sufficient and way easier.

Gute Zimmerleuchte im Krisenfall, für Camping und Nachtwandern zu Gebrauchen. --- I'd say this is my favourite Flashlight of them all. Its Tiny, Powerful, Compact, it works with AA Rechargeables as well as NiMH Shelf Storages Batteries for Preppers. The Aluminium Coating is much more durable than comparable brands, the knurling is pleasing and the tailcap is clicky and has a nice rgb light to locate the light in the dark. I really enjoy the Glowing Diffuser Cap, it elevates the light into the next level of Tools for Outdoor Camping or Crisis Prepardness. The Clip has not failed me on all of my adventures so far and I am glad I was able to purchase this Lämp again, as its compatible with the most common battery type available. A true survival tool absolutely worth the purchase.

Received in good condition. Pocket sized, as advertised and light is very bright. Recommended!

La verdad es que tiene una potencia bastante sobrada y su calidad de materiales es bastante buena, además de que incluye accesorios muy prácticos. La he usado en campamentos, trabajo y emergencias. Me ha sacado del apuro. La recomiendo pero si pueden comprarla en paquete con la batería seria mejor ya que no he podido hallar una batería litio de calidad, porque la compre sin batería.

La bonette "lanterne" diffuse bien. Le coté fluo est cool aussi. La lampe était plus petit que prévu, c'est un plus et un moins (j'aurais aimé tenir ou poser quelquechose de plus grand) Plus lumineux que ce à quoi je m'attendais d'une pille AA

Excelente qualidade. Luz forte. Entrega rápida. Recomendo