Costco has “1200” lumen duel power flashlights for $20 for 3 in store I wonder if they would be worth it or getting something better like a wurkkos or something? Anybody tried them? Seems hard to go wrong for $7 a piece tho
by NimbleOperator94
Costco has “1200” lumen duel power flashlights for $20 for 3 in store I wonder if they would be worth it or getting something better like a wurkkos or something? Anybody tried them? Seems hard to go wrong for $7 a piece tho
by NimbleOperator94
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[Wurkkos WK03](https://wurkkos.com/products/wk03?DIST=REFDHVQ%3D) is surely better:
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No, those are designed to get you to buy batteries. The fact that it emitts light is merely a byproduct.
If you needed a flashlight now, and you’re in the store… maybe? So many better options if you have a week for shipping. Even some good ones on Amazon if you need it faster.
Anything with the word ‘Duracell’ in it is worthless as far as I am concerned.
* I am a Costco fan, but they need to stop with the junk lights and batteries.
That WK03 is 4-5 times better.
The 3 pack for $19.99 after coupon that comes with 3 18650 proprietary rechargeable and AAA batteries is decent.
Only if one of your highest priorities are the sort of simplicity that probably won’t scare seniors.
Battery-branded flashlights are made mostly to sell batteries. That one takes 12 AAA’s. [These graphs](https://i.imgur.com/43gP4IM.jpg) may not make a lot of sense to you, but they show that alkaline batteries in general really start to fall off under load, and it does not take much load to bog them down. Especially not AAA’s. Given how much power it takes to make 1,000 lumens, and the way Duracell AAA’s behave under load… well, the short version is that I have *a lot* of doubts about those numbers. Enough to question *all* of the numbers.
It would definitely be worth getting a Wurkkos of Convoy. I think you’d break all three of those Duracell lights before you busted a light from Terry or Simon.
If it seems hard to go wrong because they are cheap, it might pay to bear in mind “The Boots Theory” from Discworld;
>“The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.
>Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.
>**But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.**
>This was the Captain Samuel Vimes ‘Boots’ theory of socioeconomic unfairness.”
― Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms: The Play
It’s basically a longer version of the old idiom, “Buy cheap, buy twice”.