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Olight S1R Baton Rechargable Flashlight 

 

When I was first asked to review S1R Baton flashlight from Olight by my friends from 365 Plus, I 
immediately said »Yes, I'll do it«. Then, I asked myself, how am I going to do this? First, I looked it 
up on the internet, to see, what I'm dealing with. 

 

I became familiar with Olight from very positive reviews of their more mainstream tactical 
flaslights, some of them getting shot and still performing flawlesly. Yeah yeah, it was  onlybuckshot; 
but,  Will it blend? Most likely not. 

Anyway, the reviews were good and a good year later I received as a gift Olight H15 headlamp, 
which I still use and love. That one convinced me of Olight quality, since before that I used several 
headlamps, that literally faded away after I tried H15. 

I started thinking about what to write. Off course, technical details about it seem in order, but they 
can be looked up online by all you number crunchers. Let's say Olight managed to make a flaslight, 
that's really small, in a pocket form factor, that is tough and can cover its' user in a variety of 
different situations.  
Ok, a short overview. Don't want to let the comparers down.  

 

Max Output (lumens) 

900

 

Low (lumens) 

0.5

 

Summary of Contents for S1E Baton

Page 1: ... it blend Most likely not Anyway the reviews were good and a good year later I received as a gift Olight H15 headlamp which I still use and love That one convinced me of Olight quality since before that I used several headlamps that literally faded away after I tried H15 I started thinking about what to write Off course technical details about it seem in order but they can be looked up online by a...

Page 2: ...st by me is a magnetic charging cable that hooks up to USB port or charger These two sort of set S1R apart from other flaslights I know more on that later on So after receiving the test unit I started to think what to write I first wanted to compare it to some of my other flaslights and try to position it in a role The lineup was as follows Maglite Magcharger Pocketman aka X800 Shadowhawk or any o...

Page 3: ...3 Illustration 2 Package is tightly packed and you have to be crafty to put it back in nicely But once you open it and fire S1R up I doubt you ll go that way ...

Page 4: ...f Maglite Magcharger that has a beam range of well over 400m I was impressed by the S1R performance that thing was able to light up the test area in a way not really expected by something that belongs on a key ring After that I put them all away and forgot for a while about writing the review Illustration 3 Contents of the retail package are plentiful and the suede pouch is a nice touch But storin...

Page 5: ...5 Illustration 4 One of the competitors Ultrafire MXDL the closest one in form This one has no power switch and modes Just twist it on and off ...

Page 6: ... my backpack that is with me all the time at work or at the range or in the middle of Borderwar Well PocketMan has a rather unfortunate name as there is no way to carry it around in a pocket or on a person unless one is working in security It s more PouchMan than PocketMan Other thing it s powered by 3x AAA batteries I don t carry those in my backpack and it wasn t uncommon for me to come to one o...

Page 7: ... Magcharger most of my life that s an alternative I settle for I ve tried the strobe mode too but there s not much to say It annoys the recipient of the beam and everyone else around so it s usefull for that purpose It s activated by triple pressing the switch About the switch it was sometimes hard for me to find it quickly but then I positioned the clip so that it s placed next to it Problem solv...

Page 8: ...8 Illustration 6 Ultrafire MXDL hot and light center but not enough dispersion to light the wall properly for a nice picture ...

Page 9: ...9 Illustration 7 Pocketman light circle very pleasant to watch but useful for a horror movie since light is almost absent outside of the lens ...

Page 10: ...10 Illustration 8 Lowest power setting on S1R with output of 0 5 lumens The S1R can work 15 days on single charge with this setting ...

Page 11: ...11 Illustration 9 Medium setting I use this one the most since it s well suited for low and medium range use ...

Page 12: ...12 Illustration 10 High power setting With this we re talking medium to high range ...

Page 13: ... much battery drain and overheating For that period you get a whopping 900 lumen output 1800x stronger than the weakest one This pic is merely a representation since it looks similar to high power but when you go above 100m range differertrnce more than obvious Author Matjaž Demšar ...

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