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srue said:
t_i_n,
I think it's important to note that, as in all of your tests, the lights were not cooled (please correct me if I'm wrong). So the reason the lights drop down from level 1 so quickly is not from battery exhaustion, but rather from temperature control. In real use one's hand will heatsink the light.
Someone could easily read this graph and think, "Six minutes at level 1? Arc4x is worthless."
I'm not saying your results aren't valid, merely that the differences in testing procedure should be noted.
Maybe you could put up a run with a small fan blowing on the light, or have it sitting in 1cm of water. It would be interesting to compare the runtimes.
-Stuart
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Correct, no cooling. People can do what they want with these graphs. I'm not spending the time to create a special environment to put the light in their ideal environment. I only have one purpose in these graphs that I do and that's to compare lights of the same model/version/type. For my purposes, I'm going to assume that being held, the comparision of these 2-lights will remain almost constant, however with different/longer numbers.
As the new tailcaps become available many folks will be using their Arc4's in a standalone mode, so I think this data is perfectly valid.
