In this video, we take a look at the brand new Olight Baldr S. The new features on this new light are absolutely crazy and make an insane option for an EDC light.
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The Olight Baldr S is the next member of the Baldr family. All of the other Baldr lights all have rechargeable batteries, a slick QD so you can connect into any size pistol, and a laser that is built into the optical housing.
The Baldr S takes all of these to the next level by offering two light modes. You can flip the Baldr S from 800 lumens to 100 lumens. So if you’re moving from indoors to outdoors, just tap the button twice and it’ll flip to the higher lumen output. This is amazing to see as you rarely see a light that offers you two different lumen settings that you can swap to on the fly.
What makes the Baldr S even crazier is the adjustment they made to the QD mount. On the previous Baldr series, the mount was adjustable to fit anything but one drawback was that it would sometimes wobble on the mount if it was moved in certain positions. The Olight Baldr S corrects this with two set screws. You set the proper length on your pistol by sliding the QD into position and then remove the light. Now you’re able to lock down the set screws and remove any slop in the mount. Keeping your laser insanely accurate.
The modes of the Baldr S include the green laser only mode, the Laser and light mode, which can be at either 100 lumens or 800 lumens, and only the light mode. The laser and light mode uses the most battery and I tested the light and laser mode duration and it lasted for 39 minutes. Then I swapped over to the 100 lumen mode and got almost 2 hours of run time in the light and laser mode. From an EDC standpoint, that’s amazing that it lasts so long, has that much power, and I don’t need a ton of special batteries.
Topping it all off, I tested to see if it fit the Badlr mini holster profile. As the Baldr S has a larger housing, I was worried it wouldn’t sit properly in the holster. But it was amazing to see that the Baldr S fit perfectly in the Baldr mini holster profile! Just a heads up for you, if you get a Baldr mini holster cut it fits:
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This is a stupidly good pick for your EDC light. As it fits everything and has multiple light and laser modes, this has a huge yes from me.
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