Reviews & Ratings for Streamlight PT Professional Tactical 1L LED Flashlight — 16 reviews — Page 1

I researched for weeks on the right EDC light comparing numerous brands, including the overly pricey Surefire, and arrived at Streamlight for a number of reasons. First - Quality: Streamlight has a long history of great, purpose but lights in a variety of sizes, brightness, and battery life. This range surpasses Surefire in a broad, yet general, range. For the sake of general comparisons, Surefire is the way to go for tactical and military applications. It's just proven. For everything else, particularly EDC, I'll opt out for anything reliable, aluminum, bright, strong, and in a competitive price range. Second - Cost: it's no comparison, really, that Streamlight is less costly and equally useful when comparing EDC lights and a variety of other lighting systems. Third - Battery life: after careful reviews, this is one of the few lights out there that fulfill EDC purpose, longevity (22 hours on low setting), AND has the strobe feature all in a tiny, aluminum body.

I use this flashlight almost daily, and it works very well. It fits in a pocket nicely, just like a folding knife would. The battery supply is CR123A, and lasts for quite a long time, though I usually only use it briefly, when I do use it. I like the dim mode, especially when in the woods, for getting back to camp, or as a backup on my ball cap. The tail cap button does act up when the battery is getting low, and the dim mode tries to save the battery for more use when this happens, automatically. I have worn some of the paint off, but I don't mind that too much. I would recommend to a friend. Very useful to mechanics and home repair folks as well.

This is a great light, very powerful and small enough to fit in your pocket. Great as a back-up light for officers or as a primary light for camping, hunting, etc. I would buy another one without hesitation!

I was looking for a great quality pocket flashlight for every day carry. This light is bright enough for almost any situation. It fits great in your pocket and you will hardly know it's there. I use it for IDPA and have been impressed on the power.

This is a very durable little flashlight. For being such a small thing it is sure super bright! I love how it fits right into my pocket considering I'm a small guy myself and it's very comfortable in my pocket, I sometimes forget that I have it in there! I highly recommend this flashlight for anyone who fixes cars because it is super handy!

Very pleased with the Pro Tac 1L. Streamlight perfectly balanced key attributes: brightness, run-time, beam quality, ruggedness, water resistance (i.e., submersible for 30 min.), reasonably priced/available batteries, and multi-function/programmability. Size is easy to carry loose in pant pocket or with included clip. Streamlights reputation for design & reliability excellence is comforting when one considers the criticality of tasks for which an EDC light may be deployed. Fact that it uses the same batteries as my Viridian C5L weapon light/laser affords an economy of scale when shopping for replacement batteries. Only suggestion for possible improvement is the removable pocket clip: would prefer a one that enables lower ride-height to enable more discrete carry; and found the clip pops-off fairly easily. Impressed & satisfied with the Po Tac 1L & expect itll deliver years of worry-free service. Would definitely recommend it to a friend. Additionally, Optics Planets pricing is always competitive & often the lowest and their online service and shipping are first-rate.
Pros: brightness, run-time, beam quality, ruggedness, water resistance (i.e., submersible for 30 min.), reasonably priced/available batteries, and multi-function/programmability
Cons: Pocket clip design

This light has by far impressed me more than any I have ever held! It is close to the size of lipstick so it feels at home in any pant pocket, yet is bright enough to completely blind you at night, ask how I know... Also very durable aluminum that can take a beating. This also has the easiest strobe activation feature. If you can lighly double click a mouse, you can work it. The pressure switch on it 'feels' like the trigger on a firearm, 1 to 3 quick taps on the slack will either activate momentary high,strobe, or low beams for as long as nominal pressure is applied. Then a simple authoritive click will commit the setting. Doesn't require more than a few seconds of practice. Perfect for short use times, if you are camping in the woods, get something with a lot of batteries. This one serves it's roll perfectly. Will be buying more.
Pros: compact, Rugged, bright, easy to use
Cons: None

This is a good back-up light or everyday-carry pocket light. I was looking for a single CR123 light to carry in my pocket for EDC. It's decently bright with a good hot-spot with decent through. Not as bright as some other higher-priced lights, but for the price it's ok. One thing that I found very disappointing is the beam quality. It's very "ringy" with artifacts. I have a Fenix light that was about the same price with a much better quality beam. I do like the brightness levels are programmed like a tactical light should be...with the highest level first.
Pros: small size, brightness levels
Cons: "ringy" beam

This is a very practical light for home/personal defense or emergency use. Battery life and cost would make it impractical for an everyday light.
Pros: Small, compact, bright, easy to use
Cons: None

This is an ideal light for those who need to carry a bright tactical light. Great as a backup light. Slips into any pocket. Clip reverses, but doesn't have much "range" to it and is difficult to get on a jeans pocket. Easy to activate momentary or constant on for high (default), but multiple presses for strobe and low take some practice. All in all a great light.
Pros: Small, Light, Rugged, Very Bright
Cons: Difficult to change light type (High, Strobe, Low)