I bought this many months ago, after a lot of other similar flashlights - my primary use is for when I am walking my dogs in my neighborhood at night. It hasn't failed, which I cannot say about a number of inferior Chinese-made products I have gotten before. What turned out to be great about this is it has a little clip that I can clip onto my jeans pocket, so it is hands-free. Its light swings as I walk which is a very good warning to drivers. I know it has several different modes, blinking and so forth, but I only use the steady standard light. It's plenty bright for my purposes. It has a nice charging base you just slip the flashlight into. My only slight complaint, it does seems like the batteries discharge pretty quickly. Learning this, I put it in the charger whenever I am not using it. When I didn't attend to this, it seemed like it consumed the charge within a few 20 minute dog walks.