Blog – Survival Edge Light

How to Find the Best Flashlight for Your Goals

The quest for the best flashlight on the market is never ending. There are always new flashlights arriving on the market that use new technologies and innovative construction techniques. There’s...

What Can You Do in 50,000 hours?

LEDs are amazing. These little bulbs (as most are made by CREE they are XLamps but people commonly say bulbs) last forever. Well, maybe not forever, but they can last for 50,000 hours, and...

What makes a Tactical Flashlight…Tactical?

If you have spent any time at all researching high-quality flashlights, you’ve seen the term “tactical flashlight” more often than you can count. In fact, this formerly descriptive and specific...

Do You NEED the World’s Brightest Flashlight?

When it comes to lumen output, more is always better, right? Not necessarily, take the UltraFire-18T6-20000 for instance. The 18T6 produces over 20,000 lumens. To put that in perspective, your...

5 Questions about Mini Flashlights Answered

We’ve become used to things getting smaller and lighter without any loss of power over the past few decades. We live in an age of miniaturization. If we can shrink it, we will shrink it. We will...

Finding the Best Flashlight for the Construction Site

If you work in construction – either as a builder, architect, designer, installer or inspector – you know that your most important possessions are your tools. With the a set of well-maintained,...

About Us

When we, Joey and James Bridges, were in Scouts (we both earned the rank of Eagle Scout) the options of lights were limited. Yes you had to have a light as part of your ten essentials, but it was often the same light you had for backpacking in the high sierras and the same one you used when going desert camping. Little was communicated of the output of the light, the user interface, or different lighting features. And the choices of brands were far fewer than they are today.

Times have changed rapidly since we were in scouts, in particular, in the field of flashlights. The array of Tactical and LED flashlights have exploded over the past 5 years, yet the volume of information about each model and brand hasn’t changed. Most manufacturers will share with you the common elements that are available according to the FL1 standards such as Lumens, Throw Distance, waterproof level, etc., but does that really share with you if that light is right for you?

We started Survival Edge lights with the simple mission that we believed customers deserved more information before they make a purchase. We understand that you may be looking for a gift, looking for a great light for camping, backpacking, tactical use, or you might just be starting your research into the types of LED lights that are available.

To help you in your research we have put together detailed information on every light we carry. And as we have personally evaluated each light, you will also find a section, entitled “Our Take”, where we give our un-abashed opinion on the light. You won’t find manufacturer’s descriptions here. Every light we put on this website is one that we have purchased, evaluated, and tested. We have invested the time to take detailed photos of each light, record videos, and write up descriptions often over 1,000 words just to help you get an idea of how the light could work for you.