{"id":882,"date":"2012-02-29T05:22:46","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T11:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=882"},"modified":"2012-02-29T05:22:46","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T11:22:46","slug":"edc-flashlight-review-fenix-pd20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=882","title":{"rendered":"EDC Flashlight review: Fenix PD20"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few weeks ago I had a bleg<\/a> about everyday carry flashlights. I got some really good<\/em> suggestions, and I highly recommend heading over to that post and reading the comments. The two top I considered ended up being the Fenix PD20<\/a> and the 4Sevens Quark MiniX 123<\/a>. I ultimately went with the PD20 after a friend let me play with his 4Sevens pen light. I didn’t like that the tailcap switch seemed like a capacitive button. I didn’t really feel like I would be able to operate it properly in a high-stress situation.<\/p>\n

Remember, one of the reasons I wanted the light was to be able to use it in conjunction with my pocket-carry PF9.<\/p>\n

Full review and a ton of pics below
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I am very<\/em> happy with this light. It’s brighter than my M6<\/a>. It’s tiny compared to the E21 I got for Christmas. I carry it all the time, and it’s literally one of those things that after a week or two you wonder how you lived 30 years without keeping a flashlight on you all the time. I used it last night to pick up some trash that the wind blew around. I’m training for a 5K and I’ve used it as a beacon to warn cars while running after dark. I’m pretty sure I broke up a drug deal with it using this method \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

There are two cons, though. One, the tailcap pushbutton isn’t like the E21. On the E21 (and every other “tactical” flashlight I’ve handled), the sequence goes something like push->light->click->release. The PD20 is push->click->release->light. So to get the light to come on, you have to click and release the button. Not a dealbreaker, but I’d rather have the kind where the light comes on when you push the button, and it stays on if it clicks.<\/p>\n

The second thing is that the pocket clip ripped a brand new pair of khakis in less than 9 hours. That may be attributed to the quality of the pants, but something to be aware of.<\/p>\n

And now, some pics of the E21 and the PD20:
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A few weeks ago I had a bleg about everyday carry flashlights. I got some really good suggestions, and I highly recommend heading over to that post and reading the comments. The two top I considered ended up being the Fenix PD20 and the 4Sevens Quark MiniX 123. I ultimately went with the PD20 after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disaster-preparedness","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}