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SUREFIRE SIDEKICK REVIEW EVERYDAYCOMMENTARY SERIES

The S2R not the world beater that the S1R is, but it is still a very much above average torch for the 18650 format. This light is three times brighter than the Surefire Titan Plus. The S1R is the best production light out there circa 2016, early 2017. I probably will never review lights like that again, but the best were clearly last.

SUREFIRE SIDEKICK REVIEW EVERYDAYCOMMENTARY SERIES

It has been a long slog through the S series of lights.

Overall Score: S1R: 20 out of 20 S2R: 18 out of 20 They tailstand, they stick to metal, and they don't roll off surfaces. I prefer the cleaner and simpler UI of the original S1s, but this is still well above par.Īntiroll is a bit worse on the S2R because of the fatter battery tube, but other than that they are the same and they are wonderful. Had I not had the first UI to start out with I would not even think for a second about how good or bad the UI is. They are identical between both lights.Īgain, as I mentioned above, the UI is different from my S1s, but it is quite good. Not only does the TIR optic save space, but here it makes for a smooth, diffuse beam with zero holes, artifacts, or misshapen pattern. If that is the case the diffuse hotspot and nice spill are both fine and identical between the two lights. Given Olight's product line up I will assume that the S2R is basically a big EDC light not intended for long range visuals such as those needed in a search and rescue. On high, they both use the drop down trick to juice the numbers, but both are still pretty bright after the 90 second burst of super high. On low both have runtimes that are second in the production world only to Zebralight stuff. You could stop reading now and just go buy the S1R if you really wanted to. Given that light is perceived logarithmically, you get two lights that are identically bright, but one is cheaper and half the size of the other. For me, this is the thing that makes the decision between these two easy.

The weird thing is that the S1R has cutting edge output in a small package but the S2R, in a larger package, is both behind the times for its format and only a smidge brighter than the S1R. One is amazing, the other is less bright than my two year old TX25C2.

Surefire sidekick review everydaycommentary