GarageBoy
Flashlight Enthusiast
The L models are not that much more and get much better brightness to runtime ratio. I can picture them continuing making bulbs, but discontinuing the lights. Your opinions?
In the near term no. Too many old farts around, myself included, who like the simplicity of incans.
It just is.
Simple as in positive and negative make contact to a bulb and light comes out.
Please explain?
How is an incan more simple than an LED?
You've got bulb consumption, filaments that can break from a drop, far more battery rotation (no matter what batteries you're using), pricey bulb replacements, and you consider this to be "more simple"?
PS - I'm no incan hater or anything, I actually intend to own a few high performance incans someday whenever work actually becomes full time again. And that's largely because of what I just typed! (Read, M. O. N. E. Y.)
The flip side is that they could reduce the staffing of their e-mail customer service department...Well they can't really honor a lifetime guarantee if they make incans obsolete...
The flip side is that they could reduce the staffing of their e-mail customer service department...
I don't see incans being around all that much longer though.
LED technology is being driven on SO many fronts these days, and for so many reasons.
I of course could be wrong, but I have a pretty strong feeling that any disadvantages of LED today will simply be nonexistent within a decade.
I was one of the CRT computer monitor stalwarts for quite some time due to things like ghosting and contrast ratios. Well you get an entire industry worldwide tackling the issues and what do you get? You eventually get a product that pretty much exterminates the age old tech.
I really think LED is on that track.