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INFRAY LED Flashlights - Tested and Reviewed!
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May 30, 2025
Power outages, camping, late night dog walks, there are plenty of reasons to have a bright, powerful, rugged and reliable flashlight. Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ has a close look at two different styles of mini-flashlight from INFRAY and finds they're both worth a second look. More importantly, he tests out how rugged they are by, well, driving a car over them and then immersing them in water while illuminated. Do they survive and are they still bright and functional afterwards? Watch and find out! Smaller INFRAY flashlight: http://amzn.to/2ww497d Larger INFRAY flashlight: http://amzn.to/2wbYJLQ
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are either of these your next flashlight
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let's find out Dave Taylor here and this
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time I'm looking at flashlights how did
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this come about got a new car and I
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wanted to put a nice new modern
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flashlight in the glove compartment so I
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checked in with in for a flashlights and
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they sent me two different styles for us
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to check out so first let's talk about
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this this is the pencil size everyday
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carry as they say to triple-a battery
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flashlights and it's pretty nice so on
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the back you push the button you have as
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you can see a light but as you can see
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here in the back is that you can
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actually focus the light and get it to
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be wide or you can have a narrow beam
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and you can get it much more bright now
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let's turn this off and this unit is
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what's used using what's known as a Cree
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XP e 2 R 4 LED bulb system I have no
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idea what these mean but since every
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flashlight maker talks about this this
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must be relevant
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so now you know Cree XP e 2 r 4 now
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what's more interesting is that when
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it's really intensely on a narrow point
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then you're getting about 140 lumens
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when you spread it out as far as you can
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you're getting about 40 lumens now that
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number becomes important when we compare
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it to this guy so this one like I said
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to Triple A batteries gives you about
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seven hours at its brightest setting and
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14 hours of actual flashlight time at
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its lowest setting and it doesn't sound
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like much but when I think about how I
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use a flashlight that seven hours or 10
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hours or whatever could last me six
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months or longer
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and batteries tend to sit and not be
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drained anyway so I can put this in my
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glove compartment and in three or four
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months in the middle of the night when I
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have a flat tire I push the button on
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the back and I am ready to go to see
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what's going on and maybe even to spread
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it out a little bit and to be able to
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fix my flat tire
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now they're made out of aircraft
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aluminum and they're waterproof and
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weatherproof and they're durable and
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tough and rugged we're gonna test that
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but before we get there let me tell you
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also about this one now this one
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actually is less expensive which is a
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little weird because it actually is a
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three triple-a battery and it's much
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brighter at 280 lumens again you push
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the button on the bottom and you have
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your flashlight but what makes this one
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interesting let me point it at the back
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is that you actually pull or push the
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front to get it to focus and as you can
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see on its tightest focus you actually
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get a little square it's kind of
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interesting and then as soon as you
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start getting out then it actually gives
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you a more traditional round shape this
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is using a cree xpg r5 LED bulb 280
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lumens adjustable focus as you saw ip67
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waterproof three Triple A batteries
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gives you about 10 hours of use and
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again anodized aircraft aluminum so they
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are tough and rugged right so I thought
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I'd test this out so first let's drive
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over it with a car as you can see pretty
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much not impacted at all and actually
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the secret for you to know is I did that
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test before I started recording so these
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are what they look like after they've
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been driven over by a car so they don't
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crumple they don't collapse they still
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work next test they're waterproof let's
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find out hey they're still working in
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the water we'll leave that one in there
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and we'll turn on the other one and
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let's see how that one works looks to me
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like we have two different light sources
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and they're just sitting in water so
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we'll let them sit in the water for a
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little bit so that's great now if you
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drop it in a lake or something obviously
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you have a problem because you have to
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find it but then again it's illuminated
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so its might be might actually be
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something you could do so I really liked
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him and I was really sort of going back
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and forth on which one would I actually
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want to put in my car would I rather
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have something that's really skinny and
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is not quite as bright or what I want
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something a little chunkier and it comes
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with a little carrying case if you care
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about that something is a little
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chunkier but gives me twice the
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illumination and I decided to use this
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one so this is what I call the big unit
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and this one like I said 280 lumens and
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let me before I tell you the prices let
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me just say I like them both they're
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both really nice simple flashlights but
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before I tell you the price let me ask
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if you can click on that subscribe
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button thank you now this one a little
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confusingly
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with two triple A batteries is $12.99
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with Amazon Prime so free shipping all
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that jazz $12.99 and it really is not
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much bigger than a pencil no heavier but
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you could certainly put it in your
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pocket or leave it at the bottom of your
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purse for emergencies and I just want to
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say in both cases if someone attacks you
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and you do that then they're gonna be
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temporarily blinded so if that's an
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important issue to you these are
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actually also potentially WAP protection
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devices and then this one the larger
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unit with three Triple A batteries
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brighter illumination and a longer
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battery life which makes sense with more
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batteries
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this one's $9.99 at Amazon and so you
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have your choice you have the skinny
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little guy for $12.99 or you have the
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larger one and this one's $9.99 both of
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them are from in fray flashlights I like
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them both this is the winner that's
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gonna go into my new car so this is Dave
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Taylor and I'll catch you in my next
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video
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