Yep... No onboard charging for the Protac.

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. I like the price of the Protac but you have to remove the batteries from the light and charge each individually is that right? That's kind of a drawback because I could see myself losing batteries and they are like $30 to replace.

Yeah, unfortunately that's correct. I have a little charging station on my counter at home where all my work stuff (phones, lights, radios, etc) goes every morning when I get home. I only charge the big guy after I use it, but everything staying in one place has kept me from losing anything over the years. And I'm the sort that typicaly loses stuff all the time!

But yeah is a little bit of a pain..a dock like the stinger or strion would be so much easier.

After more research I think the 9800 lumens feature on the Nitecore is almost useless. Watching a video review you get about 7 seconds of burst before it steps down. If you do it four or five consecutive times the light becomes to hot to hold. So it's a marketing gimmick more than anything I'd say.

In addition the battery in the Nitecore is sealed in the body of the light. Battery goes bad you throw out the entire light so maybe the removable batteries on the Protac is a actual advantage.

So I'll keep looking. I want to light up the woods at night behind the cabin. We can be sitting by the fire and the forest starts about ten yards away where I stop mowing. You can hear things walking by about ten to twenty yards in quite often. Last summer we had a Bobcat or possibly a Mountain Lion scream which couldn't have been ten yards in the woods. Scared the hell out of all of us. Thirty seconds later it let out another scream but seemed to be 100 yards or so deeper in the woods. Be nice to be able to light it up to see exactly who is visiting!