What's the biggest and baddest LED flashlight that you have?

[Fresh Light]

Reference.

For a single battery/single LED light this is bright as anything I've seen. Direct Cu bonding.

The VPT is probably the brightest single LED light made. Direct Cu bonding and 38 levels. It looks about the same as lighting up a target with a SR90 then pulling out a TK70 to light up everything else. It would be a biggest and baddest in quite a few lists. It certainly gets warm fast for having 7oz of Cu.

The Hydra is unlike any of the other 3-xml lights that I've seen as this is the only one that uses direct Cu bonding, massive Cu heatsink, 38 brightness levels, and on this one I have interchangeable optics. Narrow is shown. It uses on 3c cells in a 2D cell Maglite. With the narrow lens in, it does have some reach for a floody light.

 

[Sarmajor]

My brightest so far is a Surefire KL3 LED Head on a custom body (turned from some scrap during the Antarctic winter of 2005) with 3 CR123's and a Surefire push button switch tail end.
Not sure how bright but it hurts the eyes.

 

[chromeme]

1)JETBeam RRT3
2)1950 lumens
3)Seldom


See Rule #3 Do not Hot Link images – Norm

 

[Up All Night]

I'm not going to tally up what this lighting cost. The phone pictures don't at all show what it looked like in person.

Flickr video

In person the whole yard was well lit. But the distant treeline was also quite visible. It's an interesting combination, having a huge flood and a needle of light. The Deft EDC really is a pocket searchlight. My cutie pulled me back inside before someone called the police about shining lights around oddly.

Thanks for that!
I was a little worried the cat was going to fall victim to some dastardly experiment when you pulled the Deft out! Whew!!