G1000 Grab (FOR FIVE TORCHES!!)

G1000 Grab zooming beam flashlight – it's the perfect gift, punching WAY above its price-tag! Customer reviews

My torches are brilliant value – ask anyone who has one. It's because I import and sell direct, work from home and have no staff (unless you count the long-suffering Mrs Torchguy) so there are no middlemen or overheads to push up my prices. Even so, quality doesn't come cheap, and cheap torches can be really nasty! 

So I'm always sceptical when I hear about flashlights that sell for the price of a bottle of booze and make big claims about their performance. However, when I tried a sample of the G1000 I was genuinely impressed and, depending on how you pay, we're offering them in bundles of five for just R299 each!

We've nicknamed it the "Grab", which is what people do when they see what it does, and what it costs.

The Grab has a full house of features including:
- a clone of Cree's XHP50 high-end LED, rated at 1000 lumens
- throws a lovely even spot up to 200 ANSI metres (65m real world)
- at its widest, lights everything to 65 ANSI metres (20m real world)
- powered by three regular AAA batteries in the supplied cartridge
- also takes industry-standard rechargeable lithium ion (Li-Ion) cells
- built-in USB port to charge a Li-Ion with a cellphone charger
- supplied cable to charge Li-Ion from USB port in car or multi-plug
- indicator lights show state of battery while charging, and in use
- manual lockout feature to prevent gradual draining of the battery
- five modes (quarter-, half- and full-power plus strobe and SOS)
- runtime up to four hours at full power or a day at quarter power
- quality anodised aluminium body with 6-month limited warranty.

Look, the Grab doesn't compare with my high-end flashlights, but then very few torches do. If you want a light for "serious" work, please check out my other torches or drop me a line at mark@torchguy.com. But if you want some decent torches that are cheap enough to scatter around your home, or issue to your nightwatchmen, you simply won't do better than the Grab.

And, because it looks and performs like it costs much more than it really does, the Grab makes a perfect corporate gift for estate agents, car dealers, game lodges and event organisers. I can even have them printed with your logo – drop me a line at mark@torchguy.com for details.

Travellers buy this torch to give to helpful game-rangers and hotel staff, and lots of folk order them as gifts for kids on school excursions, grannies who are scared of anything complicated, and friends who are always losing stuff. When it comes to air-travel, airlines have rules about carrying devices with Li-Ions, but not about AAA batteries.

If you already own a few decent torches with Li-Ions, you'll find the Grab makes the ideal retirement home for those batteries when whey reach the end of their service life (after 3-5 years). Old Li-Ions usually hold a charge but don't run as long, which is no issue when you only need the torch to run for a few minutes while you sort out the problem.

Note that, to keep our price down, we...
- sell this torch only in bundles of five (you'll be glad – your family and friends will all want one!)
- sell it without batteries, but with a cartridge to take three regular AAA cells (e.g. Energiser, Duracell)
- OR we sell it with a good quality unprotected 18650 rechargeable Li-Ion as an optional extra.