ThruNite Saber 659 Lumens AA Rechargeable Flashlight EDC, High Performance SST20 Bright Small LED Pocket Flashlight with Clip (Dark Green)

Powerful Little EDC Flashlight The ThruNite Saber is an excellent small EDC flashlight. At 600 lumens, it’s surprisingly bright for its size and very practical for everyday carry. I like that it runs on AA rechargeable batteries, making it easy to keep powered up anywhere. The clip is sturdy, and the build quality feels solid. Compact, reliable, and high-performing—great value for an EDC light.

*Update* After using them for a couple of weeks I am overall still very happy with the purchase. But the clips kinda suck. I say kinda because they work but they aren't designed great. one of them broke from getting snapped on a bag of mulch I was handling. And the clip has almost no traction when clipped to my pants pocket. If the outside of the slip gets caught while driving or something, The flashlight starts to work its way up and out of the pocket. Luckily I've only lost it in my car so far. It's a fairly cheap light but I would hate to lose it. You replace enough of these things and it becomes an expensive light. A solution would be to take the bottom end of the clip that contacts you pants and file some rough texture lines into it. I emailed the company and they sent me a couple of replacement clips under the warranty, took a couple of weeks but i didn't have to do anything but write an email and wait. Very easy to deal with. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Just got them. Haven't put them through the paces yet but I am impressed! Lit up my whole back yard in pitch black. Nice and wide, pretty much all a big even hotspot with soft edges. I knew going into it that they only have a high and a low. For the price of $10 each if you get the two pack, I can live with it. They are really well made and perform great. But it's a huge mistake not programming an ultra low mode into them. They come with a really nicely written and thorough instruction pamphlet. To me that is only a little relevant but it certainly demonstrates a company's attention to details in general and care for their product. They were bright out of the box. But after playing with them for a few minutes, I decided to see how charged they are. They each took about 2 hours with regular cell phone chargers. So that leads me to think one of two things: Either they weren't that charged out the box but still performed excellent, or they just charge slowly whatever the amount of charge they have left. Not sure. Specs say they take 2-6 hours to recharge whatever that means. Tried them with regular new Duracell AA's and they still worked great but less bright than the included lithium. Still quite useable and great to have that option. Some nitpicks, none of them deal breakers for me personally: -The clip is nice but could be a little better designed. A bit more "deep carry" geometry and angled more at the lip that slip over your pocket. -The button is great; metal or metal feeling and heavy with a long press, but its smooth. I would prefer some knurling/texture. -I knew going into it that they only have a high and a low. For the price of $10 each if you get the two pack, I can live with it. They are really well made and perform great. But it's a huge mistake not programming an ultra low mode into them. So overall I am stoked and will come back and update this review if my first impressions don't match up with regular use. I bought them based on price and great reviews from youtubers so I am not super worried about it. One will be my EDC and one will be my backup that lives in my vehicle.

I have been pleasantly surprised with this little light. It's a great functioning unit, good quality, and sells for a reasonable price. It's single AA sized small but very bright. Clicking it ON puts it into low mode which uses less power and lights up the path in front of you very well, keeping you from stepping in a hole. Clicking it OFF then back ON again puts it into high mode which is good for scanning out farther distances and keeping you from getting too close to a skunk. I like the rechargeable battery and also the way the flashlight is designed to use it. The battery is taken out of the unit and recharges with a USB C charger on the counter top. If you're in a pinch and don't have time to charge it, you can toss in a regular AA battery and use the light until the recharge finishes. I've been using it for about 5 months and I'm still very happy with this purchase.

Overall, I was thoroughly impressed with the light. It's not as light of a gray as I was anticipating, the pictures make it look like it has a dull silvery color, but it's a rather dark gray, but that's not a world ending deal. I like to color coordinate my EDC, and the darker gray just throws that off a bit. The output with the included 14500 cell is impressive, though. 659 lumens is more than enough in most situations, and the beam pattern, while open and having plenty enough flood, has enough of a hotspot to throw out about 150 yards reliably. Past 200 yards it's enough to make out shapes, but not detail. The throw stops being tremendously useful once you get past 250, being just enough to give you a rough idea of what you're looking at, but it does still make enough light to be noticeable with the naked eye out to about 275. For a rather small, lightweight light, that's way more than expected. It gets hot fast, though, which is just the cost of that kind of output in such a small light. The output steps down after 30 seconds to keep it from getting too hot, and even after about 15 seconds it gets notably warm. Output with a conventional AA is less than with the 14500, but still plenty in an emergency. Take care of the battery and maybe even find a spare and you'll probably never need to use a AA, but the option is nice. Makes it a nice option to keep in a backpack for emergencies with a spare AA or two. The size and weight makes carrying a spare in a bag easy to the point of being negligible. The pocket clip leaves a lot hanging out of your pocket, enough to ding it on doorframes if you're clumsy. I'd rather it sit deeper in my pocket, but small lights that sit too deep can be a nuisance to grab, so that point matters only to nitpickers like me. Thrunite's pocket clips do tend to be on the fragile side, so the slimmer profile and rounded tip (thank you for making it two-way!) makes it snag much less than conventional clips. All that praise does come with one weird flaw - either the lens itself isn't installed entirely correctly or the protective layer on top of it wasn't glued on right, possibly a combination of both. The beam on mine has a lopsided hotspot as a result. It's hard to notice without rolling it in my fingers as it's running, but the hotspot does have a blurry teardrop shape as a result. It doesn't stop the light from being useable, but it's a weird flaw that could be an indicator of poor QC in general. For those of you who have never owned a Thrunite product before, this is an issue also because Thrunite's warranty is effectively nonexistent as I've never had any luck with their customer service and it seems no one else has either. The low cost makes it a little less of an issue, but if you're buying one of their more expensive lights that might be a problem for you. I can't speak to it's durability yet as I've only owned it a week or so, and my last Thrunite (the Archer 2AA, which I would highly advise you avoid) wasn't up to my standards, but my buddy's TN12 Pro has held up to the significant abuse he's put it through, so there is a bit of trepidation there. For the weirdo flashlight aficionados like me, I think you'll find this light a good addition to your repertoire, it's a surprisingly powerful little light. For those just looking for a flashlight, this is also a good option as it's cheap and uses widely available batteries should you lose the rechargeable battery.

I've owned countless LED EDC including IHC in home carry flashlights and a few dozens of little AAA and AA cells mini flashlights. But their cost at least over twenty dollars up and this is the cheapest price of good quality mini flashlight like this Thru-nite Saber. The outer built of this mini light is super high quality made of thick black mate anodized and it's tactical rear tail switch on/off functioning. A quite user's friendly big on/off button on the rear function as first press the button on low(90lumen) enough for standard normal use. For tactical or you need more brighter on high 659lumen half press the switch for momentary on low then press the second time on high mode in user's desires can press the button all the way down to stay high or release the button to turn off the flashlight. The first on mode is always on low the following hi without memory. I like this mini flashlight because it operates on 1 AA cell easily find it everywhere and can be operating on a standard AA 1.5v Alkaline cell or a rechargeable battery. But what I love the most this Thru-nite is designed that can be switching the more powerful 3.7v 14500 cell for more brighter up to 659lumen that's more than enough light for using around in the house at dark plus it's slightly larger then the AA cell clipped in my pan pocket a whole day without notice,very convenience. Over all the long size reaches just around 4' from head to the tail button with a half inch in diameter and strong like a tank outer body with a very strong special steel clip (not metal) can be securely attached to your pocket or your hat. This mini lite is also water proof with it tight o ring inside the header lamp on top where to remove the battery. The heat level is hot if you use the hi mode for 5 minutes without stop but tolerate if touch on its head and no heat at all on low mode for awhile such as 1hr. This Thru-nite is ok ! compares to one of my O-lite flashlights,the O-lite I5T-EOS with the same functioning and identical but costs 4 times of the price. With my experienced for owning led flashlights over the years this Thru-nite mini is using the latest true to life hi-end led bulb made in south Korean(Niche LED bulb) for its light which is usually equips on expensive small flashlights for the doctors/specialists to exam the pupils on the their patient's eyes. Now,for the CONS of this mini light but it's minor drawback,not a big deal to loose stars. User has to remove the cell when need a charge,not charge from outer of the mini flashlight but can directly charge to the Thru-nit rechargeable cell that comes with this mini flashlight. I rather like the standard led bulb produces a white led light than the Niche led bulb with a slightly orange peel led output. My eyes tend to be more comfortable to see things or objects in the dark with the pure white led light. I am also not very like the light output focus deep O-ring border on the hot spot of this mini light which makes the focus is not smooth on the hot spot to shine on the objects. I know, since this is a throwing flashlight unlike the smooth focus which illuminates objects close ahead. However,over all at this price with a tactically functionality,versatility with all weathers toughly built like a tank of this little flashlight. What else would you asking for?

There are many positive features to this flashlight. It is considered an EDC flashlight, meaning every day carry, translating to: this is something you can have with you everyday all the time, and it will be available when you need it. Another great feature of this flashlight is the dual power source availability. It comes with a rechargeable AA battery and it can also use a standard AA battery. So you always have power options for this flashlight. It also has a removable clip that can be attached to your belt pocket or the brim of your hat or other place where you might want to attach this light to. Something else I would like to say is this is a great value for this product. And it is really bright for its size. It is very lightweight. I highly recommend this and I have now purchased two of these. And I am considering additional purchases for gifts.

I haven't had this small EDC torch for very long, but am very pleased so far. The brightness and power of the beams in both operating modes are more than I expected and easily meet my needs. Even the low power mode is brighter than any 3 x D battery flashlight you have ever used. The amount of light from the high power mode is hard to believe coming from such a little guy. I also really like that a single plain AA battery works in a pinch and is still just as bright in low mode. Overall, this is a well made, tightly fit and high quality product. So far, so good and I would definitely buy again. Will modify this opinion if things change in the future. Edit 12/27/2024: I was checking out the Saber 659 some more and put a rechargeable AA NiMH battery in. Surprise!, now the unit also had a low *and* high mode, similar to that with the included Li-ion. The low mode is the same as with AA Li-ion and standard alkaline, but unlike both, it has a high mode about half the intensity of the Li-ion. I don't know how long this high mode works in comparison to Li-ion, but hey, unlike the standard AA, at least it *has* a high mode! I had been disappointed somewhat in that ThruNite doesn't seem to say anywhere in their specs that standard AA batteries work only in low mode. I think I had to view the video comments to find this out before I purchased. Now discovering that NiMH AA also has both a low and high operating mode is a usability bonus to me. I think this adds a second good power source option in a pinch, as with AA standard and another reason to like how the Saber 659 operates. Try this out for yourself and see what you think.

Very bright for its small size. Very comfortable for carry in side pocket with EDC knife. However I can say that the quality was very much lacking. Within a few days of receiving the light, I dropped it at work, on a concrete floor. But I was in a kneeling position so a foot off the ground i would estimate is as far as I dropped it. The light immediately went out. Assuming the worst i pulled the lens but did not see any visible damage. No cracked lens or reflector. No LED hanging off something. So I grabbed a standard lithium battery to put in the flashlight and that got me just a very faint glow on bright with a fresh AA. But nothing more. So dim it was almost imperceptible. While looking at the battery I noticed that the positive post on the rechargeable Thrunite battery was slightly recessed into the top of the battery itself. And would no longer light up green while charging. Red forever. And didn’t seem to power anything. No matter what application. So while I was initially impressed with the brightness and size at such a low price point, the first time I dropped it from a foot off the ground the light stopped lighting up, with any type of battery. And the rechargeable battery that was supplied was too short to ever work again without some sort of grounding material stuffed in the negative end to make up the 1/8” lost due to minor drop.