all right today is the day we are here at the Home Depot and we're going to
find out what are the best and the worst flashlights at Home Depot and there's
really only one good way to do that and that is to buy them
oh here we go alright this here is really one of the things I'm most
interested in all metal body looks like we got three xml's down the barrel there
I've been wanting to try these for a while guess now's my chance and finally
these I think that about covers it we're off to a pretty good start
let's go sniff around and see if we can find some more there we go mmm beauty oh
yeah and what would what collection wouldn't be complete without a $4
flashlight and a $10 battery to go with it
okay about these I've considered getting all of these too but what I'm thinking
is instead of doing all of these with the regular flashlights how about we do
every tool flashlight like from every store do all of them together every tool
flashlight ever I don't know if you think that's a cool idea hit the like
button let me know okay looks like we're at six hundred and seventeen dollars and
ninety two cents about four hundred bucks cheaper than I thought we'd be
score yeah
welcome back that is a lot of flashlights all we need to do now is get
them unboxed
why don't we start with our husky lights this is Home Depot's house brand they're
made by Black & Decker for Home Depot the price on the Husky flashlights is
ranges from $6 up to about $30 beginning with our 3d it's just robust light it's
an all aluminum body we got some soft plastic around the bezel and tail cap
triple led down the front Cree xpl and one Cree xpg2 I don't know why but that's that's
what's in there nevertheless the beam quality and color of the light is pretty
good we get tail switches on all our Huskies except for the rechargeable one
I feel like these are all a little bit mushy they're this big rubber thing here
as high as it sticks up it makes it kind of hard to push like that you sort of
have to get the end of your thumb in there we did get super quality threads
with this and a tail spring that you could pogo stick on the most unique and
likable feature that I found about these lights comes when we go a couple of
sizes down it's about a 2d size but what's actually in here is 6 AAA
batteries the interesting thing is the front we got our single led with a
reflector but also that yellow rim around there is also a COB LED you can have
just the outer ring just the inner LED or both on which I thought was pretty
cool the battery carrier on this is it's a little bit better than what you
typically get in the cheap Chinese carriers I'd still would have rather had
it be on just a couple of D cells but you know I get why they had to do this
you know to get the voltage boost moving to our AAA flashlights some of them have
no business running on AAAs it's you know these little adapters in a triple-a
the only lights that I think should ever run on AAA are lights that will
only fit a triple-a we did get two of those and you know they're okay they're
they're alright they serve a purpose decent beam decent output you know the
tail switch does work now that finally we did get the rechargeable
zoomy it's one of only two rechargeable lights in our entire hall it's a plug it
into the end USB rechargeable and you know those those kind of lights are okay
if you have to do it like for the imminence the really high powered lights
but I don't like it for these because the first thing that's always gonna die
in your flashlight is the battery when the battery's done you're done moving on
to the Defiant brand lights we got a total of six of these they are a little
bit lower cost than the Huskies our average price ranged from eight dollars
up to about twenty dollars with these they face to me they seem cheaper
quality though we did still get an all-aluminum body all the way to the
head on this 3d light our tail switch is much easier to push I mean this this
really feels good it's easy to access they've got these notches cut here the
switch is not mushy so we went uphill there on the thread quality we went way
downhill this this here is like some of the cheapest stuff you ever get from
China I even had one of these shred the o-ring when I took the cap off on this
3c version we got the triple LED defiant claims 1200 lumens with this and it has
it's not a clicky it's like an e tail switch and it's good it's very
responsive we got three mode high low strobe with this unfortunately you do
have to cycle through all the modes to get to off so from high it looks like
this triple fast click out of all of the defiant lights this is definitely my
favorite one other thing we got is our second rechargeable light this is one we
plug into the back it is a spotlight with multi-level brightness beam quality
in color for the most part on these is okay one that was really particularly
bad is this - AAA it has another LED I don't
recognized and it is just it's straight blue just that's it just blue
next up is our Coast flashlights we got five total two of these happen to be the
zoomable type flashlights one is an aluminum body and the other is
a poly the price range on these lights is from eleven dollars on our triple-a
all the way up to forty on this one and the thing is this this poly light versus
this aluminum one this is the forty dollar one this one's twenty dollars and
in every meaningful way that I can think of the poly one is better it's lighter
weight and on you know the metal one the heads not bad it's not too wobbly but
the way that this one works is it's a twisty it's real silent real sturdy the
only negative thing about both of these and this is kind of a deal breaker for
me is we're for triple A's for power last one we're going to talk about is
the Coast g20 this is to AAA they're calling it an inspection light and it
has an absolutely perfect beam it's perfectly circular even light edge to
edge doesn't bounce back in your eyes has an incredible tail switch single
mode that's a good flashlight Maglites Home Depot's actually got some of the
better ones there the price our price range is $10 to $40 on these we got six
Maglites total our biggest is this 3d the 625 lumen switch a pretty decent upgrade
I think from the old-school style that they had is we'll watch this just that
little bitty short motion is it completes the full range of focus we did
get multi level brightness with this if you're into 3d cells this isn't a bad
choice what I like even better we got let's see this is ML50L this is a to
see light 490 umens same short quick focus we also
got the minimag Pro and the XL50 mag light has also gone to an LED in the
mag solitaire now you know I want to love this but I don't it three triple-a lots
of little tiny pins you know I know I've been kind of harping on that but I'm not
gonna make any exceptions for mag light either I do like their switch it's very
good very responsive easy to get to a couple other noteworthy lights we got
here from Rayovac we did also get a spotlight it is three mode it is not
rechargeable it's powered by six AAA batteries and we got one flashlight from
Milwaukee this is also they're calling it an inspection light twenty dollars
versus the eight dollars we paid for the husky version but they're their deal is
this they gave us kind of I would say about 4000K on this so if
you're inspecting you know things were color rendering matters like paints this
might be a better way to go everything else not much to say about you know
plastic junk except in this light that we paid 5 bucks for I didn't need the 10
dollar battery to go with it because it it fits the cells output I tested every
single one of these flashlights I made a chart which I'll link in the YouTube
description down below so you guys can totally binge on it later let's just
look at a couple of the highlights real quick
looking at our husky lights you can see that they actually did a good job of
raiding their lights all the way down the chart they're pretty darn close a
few of them I even got higher than what their number was defiance numbers
actually tracked pretty well with my own the exception to that is you see the
three see that they rated 1200 lumens I got a little over 700 coast came in just
a little bit the factory ratings but still very
respectable something I'll point out is if you look at the two for AAA ones the
aluminum and the poly the poly actually beat it beat the aluminum one even
though it was rated at higher and cost twice as much Maglites numbers also
tracked very well and oddly enough I got exactly the factory rating on to which
that almost never happens one thing I'm gonna mention about the
coast lights is with the g20 that triple-a light for some reason I got a
very low number with that I got 12 lumens and I switched batteries in it I
tried everything I could think of I don't know what happened there lumens
per dollar ratio the grand champion is the defiant the 3c with the triple which
came in at fifty four point nine lumens per dollar spent our grand failures
would be some of the cheaper plastic lights it seems like the less we spent
the less we got go figure the Blackfyre cap light came in at two lumens per
dollar spent and that's rounded up my top picks for the D cell lights the
Huskie 3d and the mag light this you know you got a great dollar per lumen
ratio mag light we get we're focusable personally I would much rather have them
spend a few extra dollars and get the mag light but I think either one is a
decent choice for the money in the C cell lights we have the the defiant the
triple that had the e switch on the back this is probably the only defiant light
that I would really recommend and also the ML 50 L I I like the feel of this
light for the AAA lights this may come as a surprise but I picked this because
remember we're six AAA in the body and the thing that I love about this husky
is that outer ring I think that is a phenomenal way to get a spot and flood
mode in the triple-a lights the only competition really even though we had a
bunch of them is these two that is the Milwaukee and D Coast even though the
Milwaukee is brighter and has that nice tint I
still like the coast better I love that perfectly shaped beam just for kicks I
thought we'd try this plastic Lantern first the 80 lumen
not terrible you could do worse for four dollars and 98 cents and it came with
the batteries now the coast g20 inspection light see
how we can look right there at the the fridge and whatever and it doesn't
bounce back in your eyes see how it compares with mag solitaire one Triple A
now we'll do the Milwaukee inspection light a little bounce back with it but
super bright good color first we'll try the polymer coast light that is the
zoomy triple a powered thought this was the better one of them see if we can get
some range with it here now let's see the to see mag light that is the ML 50 L
now we'll do the three C defiant
next is the 3c Husky now the 6a a husky that is the dual beam dual LED there we
go there's our flood that's both the ring and the LED then just the center
LED just the ring now we'll do the 3d defiant that's our triple now we'll do
our 3d maglite now having a look at our spotlights will do the Defiant
rechargable it's got low on high modes I don't think it's good it's got like next
mode memory though it seems like no matter how long you've got it you know
off or on you get the opposite when you come back but it is a thrower man I mean
it it's really got a tight beam doesn't show very well on camera but in between
those trees I can even hit the grass in the field way out there it's pretty
zippy let's try our rayovac six AAA now this one's got the modes to but it'll it
always starts in high you know you just tap it to go to the next mode down
pretty good range here too
be sure to let us know what your favorite light from our Home Depot
lineup was guys is always super thanks for watching and good luck