GearLight S2000 LED Flashlight High Lumens - Super Bright, Powerful, Mid-Size Tactical Flashlight for Outdoor Activity & Emergency Use

This Gear Light LED flashlight is a mid-size flashlight. It can use AA batteries or a lithium rechargeable battery (18650 3.7v) A sleave is provided for the thinner lithium battery. I have only used AA batteries to date. There is an attached lanyard. It easily changes modes, and it is easy to zoom. The On/Off -Mode switch is on the butt of the unit and is a raised bright red button about a half inch across. It has a firm feel and click when pressed (easy to find and press without looking) I like the features and the very bright LED. This is the second of these Gear Light Flashlights I have purchased and it is sturdy, well-made. I bought the first Gear Light about a year ago. I think the cost is very competitive and reasonable. I consider this a GOOD BUY.

I prefer flashlights that use alkaline batteries. One of my smaller Thrunite flashlights went bad, and they had discontinued that model. This Gearlight is perfect for my everyday needs. The beam is bright and adjustable. When the power went out recently, I could turn it toward the ceiling and get good illumination in the room. The price is very good for the quality. Recommend!

The flashlight is very well-made and incredibly bright, almost too bright to use outdoors at night (it ruins your night vision). But I wish it were more like a Maglite in a number of ways.For one thing, the on/off button is inconveniently on the back end of the device, and you can't just depress the button to shine a beam momentarily. You have to click on, then click off. Also, the initial click turns on a blindingly bright high beam. To get to the "low" beam you have to cycle through two more off, then on again click sequences. Then, if you have the light off for more than 20 seconds, you'll have to cycle again the same way to get back to the desired low-beam setting once more. It would be great if you could just momentarily flash the beam without having to click on/off, and if you could pick the desired "on" beam intensity from the three possible brightness levels without the endless cycling.With the Maglite and a twist of the flashlight head, I could get an almost parallel beam that could be focused at variable distances to spotlight an object. With the S2500 Gearlight, the zoom goes from a very broad beam to a much narrower but still expanding beam. My main use of a flashlight is to wander my 3/4 acre yard when the sprinkler system is running at night and ensure none of the rotor heads are caught up on any grass runners or other yard debris and not blast the neighbors' bedroom windows with a very bright light.I decided to put single-use Lithium AA batteries in my Gearlight to avoid the alkaline battery leaks that have plagued my Maglite (and why I purchased a Gearlight). If you leave the Gearlight full-on for any length of time, the metal shell, especially around the lens, gets very warm. Fortunately, my usage requires only momentary use of the beam. Otherwise, I would think the device would eat its way through batteries rapidly (I haven't owned the S2500 long enough to tell. I will update my battery endurance experience after a summer of use).In short, the Gearlight is a very high-quality flashlight with some annoying idiosyncrasies. The brightness of its highest beam is amazing but causes serious eye strain if you look at anything nearby with it with your pupils fully dilated from night darkness. If you could focus the beam more, you wouldn't need such a bright light and could conserve battery power more. An ability to set the default ON setting to "low beam" would help my use case for the Gearlight. But it's a great little flashlight, and when I want to turn night into day, I have that ability in a very compact, well-made form factor.

I purchased this flashlight to keep in my truck after my old one finally gave up the ghost. I was a bit sad to see the old one go, but I'm lowkey sort of glad it finally died. My old flashlight used a traditional bulb and was larger, clunkier and more of a pain to store. This one is much, much brighter while being smaller, lighter, sturdier and it draws less power so the batteries last longer. You probably won't use a flashlight in your vehicle much, but if you ever find yourself having to replace a tire, look under the hood, or help someone else out in the dark on the side of the road, you'll be glad you have it. You can obviously use it for any other purpose where a flashlight comes in handy too, this is just what I use it for.

This a great flashlight for the price. It is SUPER bright and makes all over flashlights look like they're not even on. I truly have loved this flashlight. I've probably bought 6 of them over the past 5 years or so. That being said, the reason I've had to buy so many is because they consistently have an issue with corrosion of the batteries. They last about a year before I'll go to use it and find that it doesn't work anymore because the batteries have corroded. I've tried cheap and high quality batteries and always end up with the same result. I guess if you take the batteries out every time you finish using it, it'll last you longer but that seems inconvenient. Wish so badly I could give this 5 stars but it's frustrating when I predictably have the same issue time and again. Oh well, at least they're a good prince. Still worth buying, just don't expect them to last forever.