Re: Equipment Review (Dorcy-Luxeon flashlight)

On Fri, 03 Mar 2006 08:10:25 GMT, Bart Bailey <me2@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In Message-ID:<07ue025sil23l8rpf7mbtis67kf16tii3m@xxxxxxx> posted on
Thu, 02 Mar 2006 17:14:52 -0600, Lawrence Glickman wrote:

IMO, it is built every bit as well as the X5, just on a smaller scale.

Maybe ironic but I've had two of the X5 series suffer the same switch
inconsistence problem, plus a blue and a red each had to be exchanged
due to bulb (led) failure.
I don't think I'm excessively hard on my lights but they don't lay
around in a drawer either.

Maybe built better because of the optical lens with the Antireflective
coating that collimates the light.

The X1 lens also looks to be color corrected, maybe to reduce the bluish
cast center area so common with earlier white LEDs. The XO Luxeon series
however don't appear to have any color correction coating nor do they
exhibit that bluish tendency, just a super bright white light blasting
through their fresnel.

Strange report. The only flashlight that failed to last more than 1
week was a CMG Luxeon. What a POS that one was. Tossed it after an
autopsy.

OTOH my Streamlight 1 Watt Luxeon works fine after daily use/abuse for
about 2 years now. Even the polycabonate lens isn't scratched, and
the output, spectrum wise, is pure white with no color fringing. This
is the 3 AA Streamlight Task Light. Built to take a lickin' and keeps
on tickin'. All metal construction; it works a treat as an everyday
utility light. Has a few dents in it from rough ( real-world ) use,
but functionally, it is almost as good as New.

At 1 Watt, however, it _is_ a power hungry little thing and that is
why I run NiMH in it exclusively. 2500 mah Energizer NiMH, which
recharge in 15 minutes.

Re the Inova X0, here we go again : 2 ea CR123A (3V) replaceable
Lithium batteries with a 10 year shelf life.

Well, even alkalines have a 10 year shelf life, and if I don't use a
flashlight for 10 years, I'm not going to use it at all.

I think that Inova should get their asses in gear and manufacture a
light that takes easily available, rechargeable or otherwise, *normal*
and Inexpensive batteries. You couldn't pick a more expensive battery
pack to run that thing if you tried. CR123A is going to be the
downfall of Inova. After 4 or 5 sets of batteries, you've already
spent as much as the cost of the flashlight itself. That doesn't make
a lot of sense for the frequent user.

Lg


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