No financial interest, no nothing, just a extremely satisfied customer.
Its not cheap but I bought a LED flashlight a few months ago from
this guy http://www.darksucks.com/ it is by far with NO competition
from any other flashlight I have ever seen, the brightest thing I have
ever owned/seen. He uses the Cree lights, the thing is BRIGHT and
throws a long ways. My 4 C cell Mag light throws a beam to my fence at
about 120-140ft. away, this flashlight illuminates that fence and the
yard before it (and scares the skunk away before my dog gets to him).
I started following his blog only for the very cool, very
informative, great videos of his CNC operation and I was impressed
enough to buy a light from him... Its now called my "daystick"
Like I said, no financial interest, no nothing, just a extremely
satisfied customer.
mike
On 06/09/2011 06:31 PM, BJNoSHOV8 wrote:
> I was interested in the LED flashlights and looked into them for
> awhile. I found information on 2 different types of LED. The first
> is the standard LED that comes in a range of sizes and is used as an
> indicator in various electronics, and also used in groups in cheaper
> flashlights. These things are cheap and require around 1 or 1.5V to
> operate. The second type are the "high power" Luxeon LED's that are
> used in the more powerful flashlights. These require upwards of 4V to
> operate. Usually a flashlight will use only one of these, and they
> can put out a lot of light. Recently a similar LED has come on the
> market, called the Cree. The better flashlights will have electronic
> circuitry that will maintain the voltage at the proper level for the
> LED, and these are relatively expensive. Some flashlights do
> overdrive the LED's a bit in order to get more light out of them.
> This shortens the life some, but whether the life is 20,000 hours or
> 50,000 hours or 100,000 hours probably doesn't really matter, and even
> without overdriving them the Luxeon and Cree LED's can put out a lot
> of light. Streamlight, Pelican, Surefire, Inova all make good
> flashlights using these LED's. Even the new maglite's with LED's are
> pretty good lights.
>
>> Possibly it falls under the category of "seriously overvolt", but
>> there seemto be a lot of high-power LEDs on the market with much
>> shorter averagelifetimes.
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