Hands up all those with what are now 8 year old chinese lights used pretty much daily during winter that still work , still perform well , and still have spares back up ?
Before LED’s took off I had some bodged together (Q5 LED?) 250lumen lights, 4 of them, powered from a bank of AA batteries. They outlived their usefulness.
My original ‘bastid’ P7 is still going strong on the commuter, on it’s original battery!
My Smudge lumenator battery died.
My new Nitefighter BT70 Chinese light is doing fine.
Part of the point of chinese lights is I’ll never need spares backup for the Magicshine (although there are spares available) because having cost about £5/year over that time it owes me nothing. If it had cost £200+ for the equivalent USE or Hope lamp dam right I’d expect it to be repairable in perpetuity, but that’s not the point.