Best LED flashlight

So what is the best LED flashlight? With so many flashlights out on the marketplace these days it really is hard to find a good one.  I ended up finding an extremely bright flashlight, the model I ended up buying was a Fenix TK 40. This is a rather expensive torch not the kind of torch you would find in a two dollar shop. It is very solidly built and can throw a beam of light over 300 meters. I have never actually checked to see if this torch can throw the beam of light 300 meters, but certainly without doubt on pretty sure it does. I actually think it throws it further than the 300 meters. Before I purchased this LED flashlight I spent a couple of weeks researching which torch to buy by going to all the forums on the Internet. This torch was highly recommended. One thing I did notice about the LED based flashlights was that a lot of them use the different type of batteries. One of the great benefits of this Fenix torch is that you can actually use AA batteries. It can run on four AA batteries or eight AA batteries, with the eight batteries being the recommended way to use the torch. This is very handy because it makes it easy to access replacement batteries. AA batteries are very easy to find.  If you've gone camping for the weekend you can easily go down to the corner store or the nearest service station and you're guaranteed that they will have AA batteries on the shelf. Some people like the idea of using the eight AA batteries were some people don't, I personally think this is a good idea simply because of the availability of the AA's. This torch has four modes of operation or should I say four brightness levels which are low, medium, high and turbo. In comparison to my mag light which is a 3D cell flashlight? If you adjust the beam so that it is as wide as the Fenix TK 40’s beam you will find that the Fenix only has to be on the medium power setting to out do the maglight. Now don't get me wrong, the mag light is a very good torch but with the advent of technology and the way these LED bulbs can throw our light the LEDs are the way to go. With the Fenix on turbo mode the poor old mag light is simply just blown away. It's that bright it's like having the high beam of your car in your hands. With the mag light you have the adjustable focus on the front which allows you to change the light beam from a pencil beam to a wide spill. The TK 40 on the other hand has such a wide spill and a floodlight of a pencil beam that it has the best of both worlds. I can tell you now that you will not regret buying the Fenix TK 40 LED flashlight. Like any good tool you get what you pay for. Sometimes it's really worth paying that extra few dollars for something that's going to last you forever. I can definitely see this torch last me for many years to come. Another good thing about the LED flashlights is that the light bulbs last for tens of thousands of hours. Where as with normal halogen light bulb the filament can break and these light bulbs last nowhere near as long as they LED bulb. This is an extremely bright LED flashlight and it is by far the best LED flashlight that I have ever bought. I didn't know this but interestingly the mag light actually has a plastic lens on on the front. Where as the Fenix has a glass lens that has been finely ground that will let more light through than a plastic lens. You do actually lose a fair bit of light by using a plastic lens like what is on the mag light instead of a glass ground lens. Actually one of the first modifications you can do to your mag light to make it brighter is to change out the lens for a glass one. Also with the four modes of operation that the TK 40 has there is an additional mode for each power setting. So for each power setting low, medium, high and turbo if you double tap the on-off button the torch will go into that secondary mode. In here there are four different types of emergency flash modes, which are slow flash, fast flash, SOS flash and strobe flash. This would make it an ideal torch if you are doing a lot of night work, or maybe you are into night time navigational and orienteering courses.  Or maybe if you are an emergency worker you can use the different flash modes as markers at night time. And it's quite obvious that having the inbuilt the SOS flash function could definitely be a lifesaver if you are ever lost or stuck out in the bush. On top of all this the TK 40 by Fenix is also waterproof to IPX-8 standard, has a type III hard anodized anti abrasive finish and works extremely well with rechargeable batteries. I ended up buying eneloop rechargeable batteries as these are widely regarded as the best rechargeable batteries around. They offer exceptional shelf life once they have been charged, meaning that you can pick them up after six months and they are still right to go. This concludes my review of the best LED flashlight. You can get yourself a very nice fenix TK 40 flashlight over here Best LED Flashlight