As always, great review. With the pattern of the latest updates, the LC130 is next for an upgrade. The longer battery life for the LC90 is great for someone who works the night shift. The clip of the LC40 would be great for a shirt pocket. The older version of the LC90 is roughly the length of most "deep"pockets. I compressed my keys so they don’t poke me and the LC90 is perfect so nothing spill out of the pocket.
New LC40 torch review
How useable is the 130? Sometimes I feel like the light can be too bright… Is it it focused or flood?
It has different brightness levels.
Not zoomable and its a got a bright central light and a lot of side light.
Personally it is the least liked light in this house, we carry the LC40, LC90 as good enough. Where we do use it is is in the house for power cuts, put it pointing to ceiling to reflect down and illuminate a large room, or imagining if say the dog escaped and need to illuminate a wide area to make use of peripheral vision.
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There are other brands that have released battery pack/flash light combo. But they are on the larger side.
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I know.
Challenge Anker to do better.
from the design of the lens and reflectors I figured it would have the problem of being too wide a beam. LC 90 it is for me!
The original LC90 is, in this community at least, the most liked of the Anker torches, due to all the features, such as you say the zoomable focus.
I guess feedback to Anker was its battery life was inadequate so its doubling up. For me as I never use for more than an hour, and I can swap out the 18650 with another charged if I were to encounter a longer period demand, the newer LC90 is being made worse (bigger). Overall probably the LC40 will become the most popular now I suspect, despite lack of focus adjustment.
If you like the original LC90 grab one now.
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New:
I won another LC90 in a Powerdraw so I’ll own 3 original LC40, the new LC40, 3 LC90 and 1 LC130. These are not in some central collection, they are deliberately placed in and around all the places someone may need one.
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I was going over one of my fladhlights that has a zoom/ adjustable beam pattern and thought to myself this would be great on one of Anker flashlights. However, I wanted your take on it since you have all 3 models. Like which would you think it would be more beneficial, or would you prefer a more subtle twist cap zoom…
I also would like to see a charge port similar to the one I have or a micro/type c port in the same spot instead of in the tailcap.
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