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Meritline has the Focus Zoom Lens Cree Q3 Flashlight in Silver (also in Black) for $10 with free shipping. Not as clumsy or random as a blaster, it features advanced focus system with a fisheye lens, 200 Lumens of output power from a white LED Cree Q3 bulb, and a black aluminum body.
$10
this is the one everyone raves about, but for a few bucks more you can get something smaller that fits in your pocket better with about same light output, though fixed focus instead of zooming.
Received mine yesterday and was so impressed I bought 4 more for stockinig stuffers this Christmas. It is VERY bright.
#1 - you have a link for that?
^ Well there are dozens if not hundreds at places like DX, so here are a few, I'm linking the AA battery category since that is what the Meritline light is,
http://www.dealextreme.com/c/aa-cree-flashlights-942?page=1&pagesize=52&pagesort=relevence
I got 2 of these in the mail. Great price for $10. However, they are not even close to 200 lumens. Placing them next to a legit Surefire 200 lumen flashlight (that cost $190) they pale in comparison. My guess is probably around 60 Lumens or something. They are, however, great $10 flashlights with a very solid feel to them. They look cool and work well.
^ true, almost none of the generic lights are accurately rated, but that's not all bad because it is expensive to make something only slightly larger than a AA battery that can handle enough drive current to reach 200 lumens out the front, and the runtime off a single AA cell wouldn't be very good either.
I'd guess a little higher though, maybe 100 lumens but with cheap aluminum lights little things can help like scrubbing off the oxidation with steel wool everywhere the body is a contact point conducting electricity.