Hotligh 2000LM Worklight

by moondog on November 22, 2025 with No Comments

I’d never heard of the Hotligh brand prior to them contacting me to ask if I would be interested in collaborating and testing out their flashlights. Their name was probably an attempt at the words “Hot Light”, dropping the last letter “T” to trademark the name, but its unfortunate that nobody noticed that “ligh” can sound like “lie”.

Name aside, their flashlight came in a black box without accessories, save for a USB-C charging cable. The body is made of sturdy aluminum with a sci-fi style that wouldn’t look out of place in a video game or movie. The flashlight has a flattened blade-style design with a primary spot at the one end, a magnetic tail on the opposite end, and a large flood light on its flat side. It’s a bit too big and heavy to be an appealing EDC light but the flat shape and belt clip, facilitate stowing it in a pocket.

Each of the LED emitters is controlled by its own rubberized button. One press turns on its spot emitter on low and additional taps goes to high mode and then off. The flood button adds an additional UV mode and a double-tap on the flood activates an RBG breatihng mode on the otherwise blue battery indicator strip of small LEDs. Neither button offers mode memory.

In my testing both the spot and flood lights output less than the 2000 lumen claimed. The highest output I registered peaked at about 1600 lumens which is reasonably close and still quite bright. This and the lack of mode memory and the only disappointing aspects in an otherwise great-looking, modern flashlight.