Olight Baton 4 Pro Review: The Flashlight I’d Actually Trust for Work

Mark here, and today we're going to talk about flashlights, specifically the Olight Batten 4 Pro flashlight. So this video is sponsored by Olight. They did send me this product to check out. I personally love Olight. I have the Warrior M2R here, which is my daily driver as a home inspector. I've been using this for the last six years. Extremely happy with it, and it is by my side all the time. By the way, still the same battery after five-day work week over six years. So it's a little scuffed up, but it's discontinued now. There are other ones that are very similar to it. So great flashlight. I can't say enough about the Olight line. They are very good quality, and this one is no exception. So the Batten 4 Pro is completely waterproof. It is IPX8, so you can drop it in water. I actually used one of my flashlights in our pool a couple years ago. It's probably not advisable. It's not technically a diving flashlight, but you can use it. It is 1600 lumens. The M2R is 1800 lumens. You can get the 1800 lumens in the ultra light if you want that little extra light, but really 1600 lumens is more than enough. So it weighs, it comes in at I believe it's 114 grams. It's fairly light, and the one reason, well one of the reasons, of course the waterproof and the durability is probably number one, but the one thing I do love about this flashlight is the charging capabilities. Now when I first got a Olight flashlight back, well it's probably about seven or eight years ago, I learned about their charging system, and here it is here. So it's a USB-A to a magnetic charging system. I haven't seen this anywhere else on any other flashlight. Let me know down in the comments if you've seen anything like this, but it just magnetically charges to the base of it. Great. Love it. So the base is magnetic. You can attach it to, for example, I was working on my car once, and I just stuck it up to the hood on the underside of the hood while I was working on the car. Worked great. It actually comes with what's called an L-stand. So they used to have what's called an L-Dock, which was great. I have an L-Dock for my Seeker 2, which is at my side door. It's charged. It's ready to go all the time, and the difference between the two is the L-Dock is charging. It has a charging capability to it. So you've got your magnetic, which goes onto the top, and then it plugs in, and there's continuity through the unit so that you can then attach this and charge it. Not sure why they did away with it. Maybe because you're not supposed to continuously charge batteries. That's usually a bad thing, but the Seeker 2, again, has its original battery in it, and I've never had any issues with it. It could be, of course, fire concerns as well, of course, with lithium-ion batteries and overcharging and things of that nature, but I've had that flashlight there for probably about six years with no issues. So what they've done is they've come with the L-Stand. It comes with a little 3M sticky here. You stick to the wall, of course, then you stick your stand to that, and it is great because if you're ever looking for your flashlight and can't find it, this is the solution. You mount this wherever I would probably say by your door, somewhere by your keychain, something like that. Easy to grab. And, of course, it's magnetic, so you can hook it right up to that. It is always there. If you do have to charge it, you can then use your or if you unscrew the back of this, there is a USB port, USB-C port to be exact, and it's hidden behind a nice O-ring gasket, so it's completely waterproof. So you have a couple different charging options in it, which is great. I would probably use the magnetic all day long. How easy is that? But I guess if you misplace this, then USB-Cs are all over the place. It does have five different light modes. So when you turn it on initially, you hold it and it will go. There we go. That is called candle mode, I believe it is. So it's a very light light, very low lumen light for darkness. If you're sneaking around, maybe your significant other is sleeping and they wake up very easily and you have to put this beside your bed and you want to make it to the bathroom or something. It'll run on 100 days on this setting. I haven't really found any use for it, but it's there if you need it. Now you can cycle through, turn that off, we'll turn it back on. It's in candle light mode. If you hold it, it will cycle through the different settings. So on the, I don't know how easy it is to see, but it does have, maybe I'll throw a picture up here. It does have on the right, it'll show battery level and on the left, it will show what mode you're in with the different light settings. Now you can change it and adjust it with just holding down the side button. Or what I usually do is I usually use the back tail switch button. It just goes into its high mode when you use that. But as an inspector, usually I go into basements and different areas, crawl spaces, attics, and I need a fair amount of light. So that works. And of course it's all personal preference. So another nice thing is the grip on it. They all have a really nice textured grip. They're made out of aluminum and it's really easy to hold on to. The other thing is, if we turn this on, it is, as I mentioned, IPX8 waterproof. So if you should drop it into water or if you should drop it from any height, the durability and waterproofing on it, in my opinion, is second to none. They're handy. I've got them situated in a number of places. Like I mentioned, I have the Seeker 2 which is up at my front door. I have actually one on my shelf up here. It's a copper special edition unit that they sent me and that is up there. I've got a Arkfeld beside my bed and I even have an O-Pen light that is also there. That's kind of my turn it on, not have so much light if my wife is sleeping. So they are great flashlights. And initially when I was doing my inspections, I had invested in another brand. I and I spent, I don't know, I spent $170 or something on this new flashlight. And when I started using the Olight line, it was just a game changer. I can't say enough. Now people do look at these flashlights and go, oh, I don't want to pay $100 or $200 for a depending on, of course, the flashlight you get. But in the beginning, I bought cheaper flashlights and they would last a month or two and I would buy another one and then I would buy another one. And if you keep going like that, you're just going to be spending more money than you would if you invested in a good quality product. And that's with really anything on the market. If you're going to buy something cheap, well, it may not last as long as you want it to last. That is it. Not really much else to say other than I do endorse this brand. Olight didn't tell me I had to say this, but honestly, I do. And I am a big promoter of this. You can probably see up on my shelf here. Somebody has mentioned on one of my other tech review videos, they said, it looks like you got Olight flashlights up in the back there. And yeah, I do. I got a whole shelf of them. They're great. I can't say enough about them. I will put all the links down in the description on this. If you have any questions whatsoever about any of their flashlights, feel free to leave it down in the comments section. I'd love to hear from you and we hope to see you next time. Take care.