Review of SuperBright 75-6262 6 Pack of Aluminum 9-LED Flashlights

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After I ordered these flashlights I had a conversation with a friend who had spent $70 on his LED carry-around emergency torch. He said I'd learn soon enough why he spent $70 and I kinda did.

The turnaround time on the order was reasonable, about a week. They came in one of those plastic wrappings that demand a set of butcher shop kitchen shears to get open. There were six packages of AA batteries in the box along with six lanyard loops. As I took the flashlights out of the box I noticed that there were two different patterns in the machined aluminum, four of one with knurl texture on the front lens area. The other set was smooth raised rings around the lens area.

The batteries were a bit past their prime, to say the least. Very cheap, somewhat irregular shapes & signs of the beginnings of corrosion & leakage on the bottom of a couple batteries. I stuffed each flashlight with the batteries provided and then replaced them with AA Energizers after I saw how dim the flashlights were with the batteries provided. Made quite a difference.

One of the flashlights did not light up. Unlike the $10 9-LED torches I have for my ham radio stuff, the circuit board holding the LEDs in these flashlights were pressed into place at the front of the tube. (The $10 versions have a ring threaded into the removable lens holding part of the tube to hold the LED board & reflector in place.) Since the center spring has to avoid shorting out against a trace running ground to the center LED, I figured it might be shorted. I used a pair of long needle nose pliers to pull the spring up from the circuit board. That fixed the dysfunctional flashlight and it worked just fine. Those who do not have 50-odd years of playing with electrons would think they'd bought a bum flashlight and, without my experience, I would have thought so too. (I smile at the thought that I fixed the damn thing instead of tossing it in the trash: my usual response as age creeps up on me.)

Overall these six flashlights will work just fine around the house for peering into places under the sink or into a convection oven where my aging eyes don't seem to work so well with ambient light. These flashlights are good enough for finding the lock on the door in the dark when I forget to turn on the porch light before I leave. I stuffed one of them in my ham radio emergency kit and another in the console of my car. Two of 'em I kept in my office for the same reason I need one in the kitchen.

I was a little bothered that the lanyard loops were not installed on the cases of the batteries. Even with needle nose pliers and a magnifying lens, putting the little rings for the lanyards into their holes on the flashlight cases was a test of my essential tremor. Weren't easy but I got it done eventually.

I'd buy another box of six if I needed more, but I think six is just enough. That's what these are anyway: flashlights just enough to do non-critical illumination of come-what-may situations around the house. I wouldn't depend on one for signaling in the desert or attracting helicopters to a crash sight. They're good enough for home. They're good enough for me.

You do get what you pay for, although I'm not about to invest $70 in a flashlight for around the house. Money reasonably well spent, even if I did have to fix one myself.

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Because of thin metal and poor threading unable to screw back on flashlight. Afterwards tried to turn flashlight on by pressing the back of light on and the switch popped in. I would never trust a single flashlight to work. Need all six to find one to work. Total junk. Find other brand not this garbage. sjr

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These flashlites are crap. The metal is thin and cheap. The batteries provided were leaking acid. I threw everything away!!!!!

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I just got this in the mail one worked 4 were very poor at lighting and one did not work at all because the threads were striped. so save your money.

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When every single one of 18 AAA batteries included in a purchase is corroded and producing much less effective voltage than required, you begin to feel ripped off.