Comments on: Dealmonger: 28 LED Flashlight

By: Ron Lynch

Ron Lynch — Sun, 06 May 2007 14:54:57 +0000

If you want a good LED flash lite and have a Mini-Maglite laying around, I suggest you get an LED upgrade kit. I bought a couple of these two months ago and have been very happy with the results. Battery life is excellent, light output is superior to the maglite incandescent bulb and the kit includes a tailcap switch. I picked up mine at Lowe’s for about $9. Check them out at niteize.com
BTW I am not employed by them, just like their product.

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Sat, 05 May 2007 15:43:44 +0000

[...] Dealmonger: 28 LED Flashlight We get it: you love flashlights — especially LED flashlights. At under $4 for 28 LEDs, this light totally puts the smackdown on other lights when it comes to LED-to-price ratio. [...]

By: Nate Bezanson

Nate Bezanson — Fri, 04 May 2007 04:37:53 +0000

Ooh, I guess I need to wrap up that LED flashlight review I’ve been working on. I don’t have photometric equipment, but I’m doing beam comparisons and current measurements, etc.

In general: Any cheap LED flashlight that takes three alkaline batteries is probably crap. They’ll produce decent output for the first few minutes, but after that, the unregulated LED driver lets the current sag and the output becomes less than stellar. Piss-poor lights like these are largely responsible for the bad reputation that LED lighting has, but you get what you pay for.

By: Stu

Stu — Fri, 04 May 2007 01:51:45 +0000

For LED flashlight reviews you will not find a better site than this fanatic:
http://ledmuseum.home.att.net/ledleft.htm

It’s worth a look for anyone who likes flashlites etc.

Stu

By: Stuey

Stuey — Thu, 03 May 2007 01:48:36 +0000

Hmm. Would it be possible for you guys to do an LED flashlight review? It would be great to see how these compare to say a maglite or surefire where the price to LED ratio is astronomically higher.

By: Martin J S

Martin J S — Wed, 02 May 2007 18:43:00 +0000

Christ that’s a lot of LEDs. I’d like to see what that puts out. Guess I’ll buy one to find out.

By: Kurt Schwind

Kurt Schwind — Wed, 02 May 2007 17:45:36 +0000

Great post. I am just now in the market for a cheap flashlight to put in my daughter’s bedroom. I’ll have to give this one a go. If it works well, I might get 2.