Hi!
I asked about LED light that could replace my Scorpion - no such thing was the answer. Ok. Somebody hinted that the upcoming 5W LS might be the thing - but with very limited run time. There was also some talk about efficiency of LED compared to the best incandescent bulbs (couldn't find it now).
Now SureFire has released information about their LED lights. This is interesting because even though if they would be biased somehow, the same bias should be applied to both lights... so lets take a look:
1) E1E has 15 lumens for 90 minutes
2) E1E+KL1 has 16 lumens for 1.5 hours and with some light still left there for hours.
Don't they look very much the same? How about E2E?
1) E2E+MN02 gives 25 lumens for 2.5 hours
2) E2E+KL1 is rated 17 lumens for 4 hours and then some.
This is not quite comparable, but some indication still. So currently the LED tehcnology might be just a little better than incandescent (Although we must remeber that the KL1 is regulated and E1E or E2E are not). But what happens when we get the 5W LS? We might be getting the 60 lumens of E2E (or do we get more?), but will the run time be less than 75 minutes then?
Harri.
I asked about LED light that could replace my Scorpion - no such thing was the answer. Ok. Somebody hinted that the upcoming 5W LS might be the thing - but with very limited run time. There was also some talk about efficiency of LED compared to the best incandescent bulbs (couldn't find it now).
Now SureFire has released information about their LED lights. This is interesting because even though if they would be biased somehow, the same bias should be applied to both lights... so lets take a look:
1) E1E has 15 lumens for 90 minutes
2) E1E+KL1 has 16 lumens for 1.5 hours and with some light still left there for hours.
Don't they look very much the same? How about E2E?
1) E2E+MN02 gives 25 lumens for 2.5 hours
2) E2E+KL1 is rated 17 lumens for 4 hours and then some.
This is not quite comparable, but some indication still. So currently the LED tehcnology might be just a little better than incandescent (Although we must remeber that the KL1 is regulated and E1E or E2E are not). But what happens when we get the 5W LS? We might be getting the 60 lumens of E2E (or do we get more?), but will the run time be less than 75 minutes then?
Harri.