Anyone have any good - bad experiences with mini Led flashlights, especially
regarding durability? Any preferred brands or types?

"RBM" rbm2(remove wrote in message ...
Anyone have any good - bad experiences with mini Led flashlights, especially
regarding durability? Any preferred brands or types?

Durability isn't the problem with mini LED flashlights. Lack of
intensity is. They're **** poor for about anything, other than
finding door locks in the dark.

RBM (remove this) wrote:
Anyone have any good - bad experiences with mini Led flashlights, especially
regarding durability? Any preferred brands or types?

I don't know about the mini ones, but I have two of these and they are
*great*: http://tinyurl.com/bkoye

They're bright, their beams are very strong, and, while I have no idea
how many hours they've been in use, it's a lot (my husband used his to
read in bed every night for a few months when our booklight batteries
died ). We haven't needed to replace the batteries yet, and I don't
notice any dimming.

The only thing I don't like is that colors are very washed out, but
that's a very minor concern for our purposes.

--
Jennifer

"Peter" wrote in message
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Anyone have any good - bad experiences with mini Led flashlights,
especially
regarding durability? Any preferred brands or types?

Durability isn't the problem with mini LED flashlights. Lack of
intensity is. They're **** poor for about anything, other than
finding door locks in the dark.


Not the ones with the Luxeon LED. Incredible brightness. It has a single 1
watt Luxeon LED and a deep parabolic refector. It looks like a short, small
Mag light but this one is made by Dorcy. I also have light with 8 standard
(T style) LEDs. and the Dorcy blows it away in brightness.
John

The reason for my inquiry. I bought an M-62 (2AA) flashlight with six LED's
made by Accu-power. The light was good and the battery life seemed very
good, but I dropped the light. Just slipped out of my hand and fell about
three feet. The shock killed the LED array. This little bump wouldn't have
done anything to my maglites. I'd like to know if these LED's are all egg
shell fragile or was this an anomaly



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Anyone have any good - bad experiences with mini Led flashlights,
especially regarding durability? Any preferred brands or types?

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Anyone have any good - bad experiences with mini Led flashlights,
especially
regarding durability? Any preferred brands or types?

Durability isn't the problem with mini LED flashlights. Lack of
intensity is. They're **** poor for about anything, other than
finding door locks in the dark.



I disagree!
I had a Mini-mag, I tossed it after I bought a three LED flashlight of the
same basic size. The LED may not be as bright, but more than adequate for
general use. The BIG bonus is batteries last months instead of hours!
I would go through at least 2AA batteries in my mini-mag in a week, now 6
months to a year on the three LED light. I also have a Streamlight single
LED that is the size of a Bic pen. small enough to carry in a shirt pocket
and although not as bright as the three Led light, good enough for my use.
How bright do you need the light anyway? It is not like you are out poaching
deer with them!
Greg

"RBM" rbm2(remove wrote in message
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The reason for my inquiry. I bought an M-62 (2AA) flashlight with six
LED's made by Accu-power. The light was good and the battery life seemed
very good, but I dropped the light. Just slipped out of my hand and fell
about three feet. The shock killed the LED array. This little bump
wouldn't have done anything to my maglites. I'd like to know if these
LED's are all egg shell fragile or was this an anomaly


That is not my experience. I have dropped my lights from much greater
heights with no damage.
I think you got a lemon, or maybe the Accu-power lights are not as good.
Greg

What is the brand light you have?


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The reason for my inquiry. I bought an M-62 (2AA) flashlight with six
LED's made by Accu-power. The light was good and the battery life seemed
very good, but I dropped the light. Just slipped out of my hand and fell
about three feet. The shock killed the LED array. This little bump
wouldn't have done anything to my maglites. I'd like to know if these
LED's are all egg shell fragile or was this an anomaly


That is not my experience. I have dropped my lights from much greater
heights with no damage.
I think you got a lemon, or maybe the Accu-power lights are not as good.
Greg

"RBM" rbm2(remove wrote in message
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The reason for my inquiry. I bought an M-62 (2AA) flashlight with six
LED's made by Accu-power. The light was good and the battery life seemed
very good, but I dropped the light. Just slipped out of my hand and fell
about three feet. The shock killed the LED array. This little bump
wouldn't have done anything to my maglites. I'd like to know if these
LED's are all egg shell fragile or was this an anomaly



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Anyone have any good - bad experiences with mini Led flashlights,
especially regarding durability? Any preferred brands or types?




I really doubt you broke the LEDs themselves. More likely jarred a contact
in the switch out of place or opened a wire along the way. Try
disassembling it and looking for broken and bent parts then try again. LEDs
are rated for many Gs of shock but the rest of the flashlight... who knows.

My experience with one I got in china with 5 or 9 LEDs (two levels) was that
the blue color caused a sort of color blindness while looking at things. It
was difficult to read color codes on resistors for example. Certain other
colors (of marker on wood in my case) became almost invisible. The one I
have cannot be refocused either but it is very durable.

In article , RBM wrote:
Anyone have any good - bad experiences with mini Led flashlights, especially
regarding durability? Any preferred brands or types?

First, go to:

http://ledmuseum.home.att.net/ledleft.html - what I consider the
"main index" page for Craig Johnson's reviews of mostly LED flashlights.

Next, go to Target, which has quite a few.

Third: If you want a lot of light, get one with at least one "1 watt"
or at least one "Luxeon" LED or at least 7 more ordinary LEDs, and either
at least 3 AA cells or at least 2 C or D cells or a lantern battery.

Of ones that I have found at brick-and-mortar stores, I have had a good
liking for Dorcy brand ones.

One older Dorcy model that I like, for extremely good durability and
battery life although it is somewhat weak on light output (one ordinary
size LED), is a short, stubby yellow one that looks like it should accept
one D cell. It actually takes four AA cells. I have seen these in a few
hardware stores and at Sears. It is an older model, and if you can find
one give the possibility that the included batteries may be past their
shelf life.

The main advantages of LEDs over incandescent a

1. LEDs have extremely long life, usually in the thousands of hours.

(100,000 hours I consider to be on the optimistic side - in a good
case, white LEDs may have faded to half their "brand new" output after
50,000 hours if well-cooled and not overpowered.)

Incandescent flashlight bulbs usually have rated life around 10-30
hours. This includes variants such as krypton, xenon, and halogen.
Life will vary with battery type and condition, and is usually rated
with 1.2 to 1.25 volts per cell (for the number of 1.5V cells that the
bulb s intended to be used with).

2. LEDs generally don't burn out, but gradually fade.

3. An LED does not have a filament that breaks or bends hopelessly out
of shape if you drop the light while it is running.

4. Unlike incandescents and their variants (halogen, krypton, xenon,
etc.) LEDs largely do not lose efficiency when the batteries weaken.
At half power, LEDs produce about half their full output - and that
looks more like about 60%. Incandescents at half power produce much
less.

5. Incandescents have less resistance when underpowered, so at half
voltage they draw about 70% (sometimes more) of full current (while
making about 8-10% of full light) - keeping the pressure on the
batteries when the batteries are weakening.
Most LED flashlights have greatly reduced current consumption when
the batteries weakene enough to reduce light output. The LED
flashlights essentially go into "conservation mode" when they go dim.

As a result mostly of 4 and 5 (and to a lesser extent somewhat
higher efficiency of good modern white LEDs), LED flashlights have
many times longer useful battery life than incandescent ones.
If you take a good modern LED flashlight and an incandescent one
that take the same batteries and produce the same amount of light and
turn them on at the same time and let them run:
Usually, by the time the LED one has dimmed to looking like half
its full output, the incandescent one will be at best about as dim as
an idling cigarette - and more likely will be not visibly glowing.
After 2-3 times the time it takes the incandescent flashlight to not
be visibly glowing at all, the LED one is usually still bright enough
to find your way through the dark with.

- Don Klipstein )

I've pulled it apart and have a good circuit right up to the led array. It's
actually a pretty simple and durable design. I know what you mean about the
non focus ability. The place I got it from www.batteryspecialists.com
seemed to have a pretty cavalier attitude about it and I got the impression,
this was common



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"RBM" rbm2(remove wrote in message
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The reason for my inquiry. I bought an M-62 (2AA) flashlight with six
LED's made by Accu-power. The light was good and the battery life seemed
very good, but I dropped the light. Just slipped out of my hand and fell
about three feet. The shock killed the LED array. This little bump
wouldn't have done anything to my maglites. I'd like to know if these
LED's are all egg shell fragile or was this an anomaly



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Anyone have any good - bad experiences with mini Led flashlights,
especially regarding durability? Any preferred brands or types?




I really doubt you broke the LEDs themselves. More likely jarred a
contact in the switch out of place or opened a wire along the way. Try
disassembling it and looking for broken and bent parts then try again.
LEDs are rated for many Gs of shock but the rest of the flashlight... who
knows.

My experience with one I got in china with 5 or 9 LEDs (two levels) was
that the blue color caused a sort of color blindness while looking at
things. It was difficult to read color codes on resistors for example.
Certain other colors (of marker on wood in my case) became almost
invisible. The one I have cannot be refocused either but it is very
durable.

Thanks Don, lots of good info there. This "Dorcy" name has come up a few
times. I'll look into it
"Don Klipstein" wrote in message
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In article , RBM wrote:
Anyone have any good - bad experiences with mini Led flashlights,
especially
regarding durability? Any preferred brands or types?

First, go to:

http://ledmuseum.home.att.net/ledleft.html - what I consider the
"main index" page for Craig Johnson's reviews of mostly LED flashlights.

Next, go to Target, which has quite a few.

Third: If you want a lot of light, get one with at least one "1 watt"
or at least one "Luxeon" LED or at least 7 more ordinary LEDs, and either
at least 3 AA cells or at least 2 C or D cells or a lantern battery.

Of ones that I have found at brick-and-mortar stores, I have had a good
liking for Dorcy brand ones.

One older Dorcy model that I like, for extremely good durability and
battery life although it is somewhat weak on light output (one ordinary
size LED), is a short, stubby yellow one that looks like it should accept
one D cell. It actually takes four AA cells. I have seen these in a few
hardware stores and at Sears. It is an older model, and if you can find
one give the possibility that the included batteries may be past their
shelf life.

The main advantages of LEDs over incandescent a

1. LEDs have extremely long life, usually in the thousands of hours.

(100,000 hours I consider to be on the optimistic side - in a good
case, white LEDs may have faded to half their "brand new" output after
50,000 hours if well-cooled and not overpowered.)

Incandescent flashlight bulbs usually have rated life around 10-30
hours. This includes variants such as krypton, xenon, and halogen.
Life will vary with battery type and condition, and is usually rated
with 1.2 to 1.25 volts per cell (for the number of 1.5V cells that the
bulb s intended to be used with).

2. LEDs generally don't burn out, but gradually fade.

3. An LED does not have a filament that breaks or bends hopelessly out
of shape if you drop the light while it is running.

4. Unlike incandescents and their variants (halogen, krypton, xenon,
etc.) LEDs largely do not lose efficiency when the batteries weaken.
At half power, LEDs produce about half their full output - and that
looks more like about 60%. Incandescents at half power produce much
less.

5. Incandescents have less resistance when underpowered, so at half
voltage they draw about 70% (sometimes more) of full current (while
making about 8-10% of full light) - keeping the pressure on the
batteries when the batteries are weakening.
Most LED flashlights have greatly reduced current consumption when
the batteries weakene enough to reduce light output. The LED
flashlights essentially go into "conservation mode" when they go dim.

As a result mostly of 4 and 5 (and to a lesser extent somewhat
higher efficiency of good modern white LEDs), LED flashlights have
many times longer useful battery life than incandescent ones.
If you take a good modern LED flashlight and an incandescent one
that take the same batteries and produce the same amount of light and
turn them on at the same time and let them run:
Usually, by the time the LED one has dimmed to looking like half
its full output, the incandescent one will be at best about as dim as
an idling cigarette - and more likely will be not visibly glowing.
After 2-3 times the time it takes the incandescent flashlight to not
be visibly glowing at all, the LED one is usually still bright enough
to find your way through the dark with.

- Don Klipstein )

In article ,
says...
I disagree!
I had a Mini-mag, I tossed it after I bought a three LED flashlight of the
same basic size. The LED may not be as bright, but more than adequate for
general use. The BIG bonus is batteries last months instead of hours!
I would go through at least 2AA batteries in my mini-mag in a week, now 6
months to a year on the three LED light. I also have a Streamlight single
LED that is the size of a Bic pen. small enough to carry in a shirt pocket
and although not as bright as the three Led light, good enough for my use.
How bright do you need the light anyway? It is not like you are out poaching
deer with them!
Greg


I agree with you. I have a small keychain LED light that is bright
enough to use while walking from the car to the door. It uses lithium
button batteries and I've had it a year with the batteries the came with
it.

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with the opalec, the entire thing is dipped in epoxy, so it's supposed to be
quite durable.

--

Christopher A. Young
Do good work.
It's longer in the short run
but shorter in the long run.
..
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"RBM" rbm2(remove wrote in message
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The reason for my inquiry. I bought an M-62 (2AA) flashlight with six LED's
made by Accu-power. The light was good and the battery life seemed very
good, but I dropped the light. Just slipped out of my hand and fell about
three feet. The shock killed the LED array. This little bump wouldn't have
done anything to my maglites. I'd like to know if these LED's are all egg
shell fragile or was this an anomaly

Photon had some that take watch batteries, and go on your keyring. I havn't
been rough on mine, so it has held up well.

I carry a blue one on my keys, and a red one in my shirt pocket. Red? Well,
my color vision is terrible, and it helps me to tell red and green.

After many years of using min mag lights, I got the Opalec conversion
www.opalec.com for about $28. Worth every penny. Batteries last longer, and
it's adequate for most uses. Opalec is useless for looking down into
keyholes (I'm a locksmith, not a burglar). But for most things the 3 LED is
OK.

The Luxeon lights, well, they now have a conversion for minimag. I'll buy
one someday, but for now the 3 LED is adequate. I got a couple Luxeon lights
for my tools, they are much brighter t han LED.

The only time LED is really a major advantage is for a frequent use light.
The light that gets thrown in your tool box, don't bother with LED
conversion. Filament bulbs are OK for that. though, now the prices are
coming down some.

I use a filament bulb light (3D Garrity) for finding adress at night. The
LED won't focuss a spot like the old lights. So, if you were out on a search
and rescue team, the filament bulb would be good, cause it shines farther.

--

Christopher A. Young
Do good work.
It's longer in the short run
but shorter in the long run.
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Anyone have any good - bad experiences with mini Led flashlights, especially
regarding durability? Any preferred brands or types?

In article , Stormin Mormon wrote:
Photon had some that take watch batteries, and go on your keyring. I havn't
been rough on mine, so it has held up well.

I carry a blue one on my keys, and a red one in my shirt pocket. Red? Well,
my color vision is terrible, and it helps me to tell red and green.

After many years of using min mag lights, I got the Opalec conversion
www.opalec.com for about $28. Worth every penny. Batteries last longer, and
it's adequate for most uses. Opalec is useless for looking down into
keyholes (I'm a locksmith, not a burglar). But for most things the 3 LED is
OK.

The Luxeon lights, well, they now have a conversion for minimag. I'll buy
one someday, but for now the 3 LED is adequate. I got a couple Luxeon lights
for my tools, they are much brighter t han LED.

The only time LED is really a major advantage is for a frequent use light.
The light that gets thrown in your tool box, don't bother with LED
conversion. Filament bulbs are OK for that. though, now the prices are
coming down some.

If the flashlight has to survive rough treatment and/or be reliable,
then I consider these good reasons for LED.

Also, I would avoid cheaper flashlights with the slide switch. I have
found that even cheaper push-on-push-off pushbutton flashlights do better.

I use a filament bulb light (3D Garrity) for finding adress at night. The
LED won't focuss a spot like the old lights. So, if you were out on a search
and rescue team, the filament bulb would be good, cause it shines farther.

Try a Dorcy "L.E.D. super 1 watt" that takes 3 D cells! This projects a
narrow spot beam, even narrower than that of a "Mag Light".

Its only drawbacks:

a) It is a little large - comparable to a 3-D-cell "Mag Light"

b) It is a little expensive - $30 or $29.whatever at the Target where I
bought it - a few bucks more than a 3-D-cell "Mag Light"

c) There is no circuitry nor a resistor that I could find. However,
the LED is only moderately overpowered by fresh alkaline D-cells and
I expect it to last a few thousand operating hours in any normal use.
Also, despite lack of any additional electrical components or
circuitry, I expect output to fade more slowly as the batteries weaken
than with a 3-D-cell "Mag Light".

d) Focusability can "get stuck" and require brute force to restore - but
the package does not even indicate focusability, and when the
focusability gets stuck it's normally better focused than a "Mag
light" is when best-focused.

Meanwhile, I see a bit of truth to the claim of 300 hour battery life.
At 300 hours of running from the same set of batteries, I expect it to
still be glowing, and brighter than an idling cigarette. I expect a "Mag
Light" to fade that badly in about 1/8 or maybe only 1/10 as much time.

- Don Klipstein )

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What is the brand light you have?




This one,

http://streamlight-flashlights.com/stylus3.html

here is the other,

http://www.coastcutlery.com/?v=&pl=93&p=333

Greg

Check out this one from Stanley Tools

http://www.stanleytools.com/default....D+Flashl ight


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What is the brand light you have?




This one,

http://streamlight-flashlights.com/stylus3.html

here is the other,

http://www.coastcutlery.com/?v=&pl=93&p=333

Greg

Yep....true dat.
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Anyone have any good - bad experiences with mini Led flashlights,
especially
regarding durability? Any preferred brands or types?

Durability isn't the problem with mini LED flashlights. Lack of
intensity is. They're **** poor for about anything, other than
finding door locks in the dark.

I bought the TerraLUX MiniStar adapter
kit for the mini-maglight and am very
pleased with it, from
http://www.theledlight.com/ledbulbs.html.
They are brighter than the origninal lamp
and when I had a problem with one (the
plastic reflector cracked), the company
replaced is
very quickly. This uses the 1 watt
Luxeon LED. The 2 AA cells last a long
time.

RBM wrote:
Anyone have any good - bad experiences with mini Led flashlights, especially
regarding durability? Any preferred brands or types?

"RBM" rbm2(remove wrote in message
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The reason for my inquiry. I bought an M-62 (2AA) flashlight with six
LED's
made by Accu-power. The light was good and the battery life seemed very
good, but I dropped the light. Just slipped out of my hand and fell about
three feet. The shock killed the LED array. This little bump wouldn't have
done anything to my maglites. I'd like to know if these LED's are all egg
shell fragile or was this an anomaly

I have LED Headlamp Flashlights for my dogs. They wear them around their
necks and have been for about 9 months. One of my dogs is very rambunctious
and has put the flashlight though hell. It is all scratched up and the
finish is worn off and it's gotten very wet many times but it still works
great. I bought 3 of them on eBay and I think they came directly from Hong
Kong and didn't really have a brand name. They have 7 LEDs each and are
much brighter than I expected and the batteries (2xAA) last long enough for
several nights of going for long walks with NiMh rechargables.



"RBM" rbm2(remove wrote in message
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Anyone have any good - bad experiences with mini Led flashlights,
especially regarding durability? Any preferred brands or types?

What's with the flaslights with 32 bulbs in them? Isn't kind of "overkill"
or is it some kind of macho thing like "Mine's bigger than your's"?

Go on eBay and do a search on "LED flashlight".......


BTW, I'm trying to find a small one (about the size of a Maglight) that I
can wear on my belt. I have one now that came with a clip, but when I get in
and out of the truck it falls off.....

I found one that is best of bother worlds. Durable, high intensity LEDs for
low power consumption and Xenon bulb for 'tactical' use. Its made by
streamlight.

http://www.streamlight.com/tasklight_info.htm

And other cool flashlights at
http://www.streamlight.com/

I'm not affiliated with them bla bla bla


"RBM" rbm2(remove wrote in message
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especially regarding durability? Any preferred brands or types?

FOR FUN, Google "flashlight collections". There are hundreds of sites with
thousands of flashlights. Have fun.

"RBM" rbm2(remove wrote in message
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Anyone have any good - bad experiences with mini Led flashlights,
especially
regarding durability? Any preferred brands or types?

The 32 LED is cause each bulb isn't all that bright. I've got some with 12
LED. A 2D old fashioned flash light with a PR2 bulb is brighter.

If you want brighter with LED, look for "Luxeon". I've got a light with a
one watt Luxeon. Much brighter than my 12 LED light, and same blue color.
However, it draws about 700 mA, and is sure to suck the life out of AA
batteries (takes two).

Ebay has a bunch of LED lights that come with belt cases. In my life, the
2AA minimag fits nicely in my pocket. So, I went with the Opalec conversion.
Only 3 LED, but good for most things.

--

Christopher A. Young
Do good work.
It's longer in the short run
but shorter in the long run.
..
..


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What's with the flaslights with 32 bulbs in them? Isn't kind of "overkill"
or is it some kind of macho thing like "Mine's bigger than your's"?

Go on eBay and do a search on "LED flashlight".......


BTW, I'm trying to find a small one (about the size of a Maglight) that I
can wear on my belt. I have one now that came with a clip, but when I get in
and out of the truck it falls off.....

I got mine from Sams Club, came in a package of two. I was surprised
over the intensity---very bright, actually hard to stare at.

J


RBM wrote:

Anyone have any good - bad experiences with mini Led flashlights, especially
regarding durability? Any preferred brands or types?

RBM wrote:
Anyone have any good - bad experiences with mini Led flashlights, especially
regarding durability? Any preferred brands or types?



What constitutes a "mini" LED flashlight? I use an Inova X5 that is as
bright as most regular flashlights and brighter than most small
conventional lights and it also offers something like 20 hours of
continuous use on a single set of batteries with a shelf life of at
least a decade. My light is classed as a "flood" but they do make "spot"
versions -- a broad beam seemed to more generally useful to me given the
uses to which I'll put it.

http://www.inovalight.com/

--
John McGaw
[Knoxville, TN, USA]
http://johnmcgaw.com

On 2005/9/15 8:09 PM, "Don Klipstein" wrote:

In article , RBM wrote:
Anyone have any good - bad experiences with mini Led flashlights, especially
regarding durability? Any preferred brands or types?

First, go to:

http://ledmuseum.home.att.net/ledleft.html - what I consider the
"main index" page for Craig Johnson's reviews of mostly LED flashlights.

Interesting site. Thanks for the link.


Next, go to Target, which has quite a few.

For another brick-and-mortar retail store, try a camping/backing store like
REI. They are sometimes a bit pricey but you can often check out a good
selection.

I have a couple of Princeton Tec LED flashlights and also a headlamp. They
have proved to be quite durable and bright enough for what I want to do.
Several of them have multiple light levels so you can trade off intensity
vs. battery life.

If you want high light output LED, go with one of the Luxon bulbs. If you
really want lots of light in a small package, look at the Streamlight
Scorpion.

In article ,
KennyJr wrote:

In article ,
says...
I disagree!
I had a Mini-mag, I tossed it after I bought a three LED flashlight of the
same basic size. The LED may not be as bright, but more than adequate for
general use. The BIG bonus is batteries last months instead of hours!
I would go through at least 2AA batteries in my mini-mag in a week, now 6
months to a year on the three LED light. I also have a Streamlight single
LED that is the size of a Bic pen. small enough to carry in a shirt pocket
and although not as bright as the three Led light, good enough for my use.
How bright do you need the light anyway? It is not like you are out
poaching
deer with them!
Greg


I agree with you. I have a small keychain LED light that is bright
enough to use while walking from the car to the door. It uses lithium
button batteries and I've had it a year with the batteries the came with
it.

I also have a keychain LED light, and love it! Probably use it twice a
day... it's going on 2 years old and is still going strong on it's
original batteries. It's a 'Pulsar P-1-BK

I even bought a spare... so I won't be without for long if I ever bust
it.

Erik

On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 09:10:31 -0400, "Craven Morehead"
wrote:

FOR FUN, Google "flashlight collections". There are hundreds of sites with
thousands of flashlights. Have fun.

"RBM" rbm2(remove wrote in message
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Anyone have any good - bad experiences with mini Led flashlights,
especially
regarding durability? Any preferred brands or types?




I've completely stopped using incandescent bult flashlights. I've
probably got six LED lights and use them daily. I have one on my belt
and a bunch more in my camping gear and car.
Great invention, IMHO.

Dan

On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 22:03:56 GMT, "Peter" wrote:

:"RBM" rbm2(remove wrote in message ...
: Anyone have any good - bad experiences with mini Led flashlights, especially
: regarding durability? Any preferred brands or types?
:
urability isn't the problem with mini LED flashlights. Lack of
:intensity is. They're **** poor for about anything, other than
:finding door locks in the dark.

Right, for the little ones. If you want an LED flashlight that works as
an everyday all-purpose flashlight try the Luxeon flashlights. There's
quite a few of those around. I scored a dozen for under $100 at Costco
less than a year ago and I am extremely pleased. They use 2 AA's, are
bright enough for 98% of the stuff I need a flashlight for. They seem to
get maybe 2 hours of usage from a set of batteries, is my impression
although I've yet to have any batteries die in mine. I have them all
over the house and in both my cars and I never use any of my other
flashlights (almost never). I can even use NiMH in them if I have a
special long task and not use up my alkalines. It was a closeout at a
nearby Costco. You probably won't be so lucky and will have to pay $20
for them, but who knows? The prices are bound to keep dropping.

In article , Dan_Musicant wrote:
On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 22:03:56 GMT, "Peter" wrote:
(and I edit for space)

:"RBM" rbm2(remove wrote
:
urability isn't the problem with mini LED flashlights. Lack of
:intensity is. They're **** poor for about anything, other than
:finding door locks in the dark.

Right, for the little ones. If you want an LED flashlight that works as
an everyday all-purpose flashlight try the Luxeon flashlights. There's
quite a few of those around. I scored a dozen for under $100 at Costco
less than a year ago and I am extremely pleased. They use 2 AA's, are
bright enough for 98% of the stuff I need a flashlight for. They seem to
get maybe 2 hours of usage from a set of batteries, is my impression
although I've yet to have any batteries die in mine.

I bought a Luxeon flashlight at Targetfor $30 or $29.whatever, and it is
a Dorcy brand "1 watt" one, and it takes 3 D-cells.

I did not find any regulation means in this one, so I expect output to
continuously "droop" as the batteries get used - although more slowly than
incandescent flashlights usually do.
And when incandescent flashlights get badly dim from the batteries
being depleted, they tend to do so at an accelerating rate. Unregulated
LED flashlights, on the other hand, do most of their major weakening (from
batteries getting depleted) at a rate that decellerates, as well as is
slower from the start than is the case with incandescents.
Most of this effect is from LEDs not losing efficiency the way
incandescent bulbs do when underpowered.

- Don Klipstein )

Dr. Hardcrab posted for all of us...
I don't top post - see either inline or at bottom.

What's with the flaslights with 32 bulbs in them? Isn't kind of "overkill"
or is it some kind of macho thing like "Mine's bigger than your's"?

Go on eBay and do a search on "LED flashlight".......


BTW, I'm trying to find a small one (about the size of a Maglight) that I
can wear on my belt. I have one now that came with a clip, but when I get in
and out of the truck it falls off.....



Get a Streamlight Strion - rechargable & get a holster - worth it!
--
My boss said I was dumb and apathetic.
I said I don't know and I don't care...
Tekkie

On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 19:35:01 -0400, Tekkie®
wrote:

Dr. Hardcrab posted for all of us...
I don't top post - see either inline or at bottom.

What's with the flaslights with 32 bulbs in them? Isn't kind of "overkill"
or is it some kind of macho thing like "Mine's bigger than your's"?

Go on eBay and do a search on "LED flashlight".......


BTW, I'm trying to find a small one (about the size of a Maglight) that I
can wear on my belt. I have one now that came with a clip, but when I get in
and out of the truck it falls off.....



Get a Streamlight Strion - rechargable & get a holster - worth it!

12,000 candlepower for 70 minutes ( runtime ) and then you need to
recharge it.

If you want something to run all night long, go with LED technology.
I have and use both.

Lg