This flashlight is amazing even though its quite expensive with a price tag of $30-35 shipped for a freaking flash light.
It has a single high power Luxeon LED and the output is rated at 40 lumens.
There's an electronic regulator in the lamp assembly that holds the light output absolutely constant for a very good part of the batteries' useful life and this is what makes this light distinct from most flash lights, LED or incandescent.
While the output isn't exactly high at the beginning, it compares quite favorably with a Mag-4D after the Maglites batteries sees about an hour of use.
With all incandescent and most LED flash lights, the output dims down to 50% in the first 5-10% of useful battery life, then continues to dim down continuously. This is how most LED lights achieve crazy long run-time.
It takes four AA batteries and maintans full output for 3-4 hours before it starts to dim. If you use 2,500 mAh NiMH batteries, you can stretch that to almost 5 hours. When you're using NiMH, the dimming is very abrupt.
http://www.lighthound.com/images/streamlight/Propolymer4AALuxeon.jpg
Weighs half a pound and it is 7" by 1.5", pretty close to cheap $1.99 super market flashlights and it looks just like one.
The only downside is that the beam is very narrow and you can't adjust the focus.
I know there are brighter flashlights out there that cost a lot or uses expensive lithium batteries, but this is the brightest AA powered flashlight I've ever used.
It has a single high power Luxeon LED and the output is rated at 40 lumens.
There's an electronic regulator in the lamp assembly that holds the light output absolutely constant for a very good part of the batteries' useful life and this is what makes this light distinct from most flash lights, LED or incandescent.
While the output isn't exactly high at the beginning, it compares quite favorably with a Mag-4D after the Maglites batteries sees about an hour of use.
With all incandescent and most LED flash lights, the output dims down to 50% in the first 5-10% of useful battery life, then continues to dim down continuously. This is how most LED lights achieve crazy long run-time.
It takes four AA batteries and maintans full output for 3-4 hours before it starts to dim. If you use 2,500 mAh NiMH batteries, you can stretch that to almost 5 hours. When you're using NiMH, the dimming is very abrupt.
http://www.lighthound.com/images/streamlight/Propolymer4AALuxeon.jpg
Weighs half a pound and it is 7" by 1.5", pretty close to cheap $1.99 super market flashlights and it looks just like one.
The only downside is that the beam is very narrow and you can't adjust the focus.
I know there are brighter flashlights out there that cost a lot or uses expensive lithium batteries, but this is the brightest AA powered flashlight I've ever used.
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