mattchase
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Update: I've updated the photos and added a size comparison shot.
Once again you guys have forced me to spend money and stay up until the whee hours playing with flashlights! :thumbsup:
I bought 2 of the new Coleman Max Cree 2xAA flashlights yesterday and have some beamshots with a Fenix L2S for comparison as well as a runtime graph.
Not an entirely fair comparison I know, the L2S is only rated at 45 lumens while the Coleman is rated at 115 lumens. This was the best I could do though. Besides the obvious brightness difference, the other big difference is the size of the spill. The Coleman has a bright hotspot and a fairly bright spill that coveres a good amount of area, slightly less than the L2S but much brighter. Color is a bit warmer but not much, and in actual use you probably won't really notice it.
Since I have two of these I tested them both for throw and overall brightness, first with fresh Eneloops then with the Duracell alkalines that were included in the package. Since I got two different sets of numbers I then swapped the batteries between the two lights to rule out a difference caused by the two different chemestries and came up with similar results for each flashlight (readings @ 1 meter using the Quickbeam methods).
Flashlight 1
- 1935 Throw
- 7020 Overall
- 97.5 Lumens
Flashlight 2
- 2187 Throw
- 8050 Overall
- 111.8 Lumens
So quality control isn't quite perfect with these, not entirely surprising. In actual use both lights are close in output and very bright, the manufacturer claim of 115 lumens is not too far off if you happen to get one of the better units.
I only tested one of the flashlights during the runtime test (flashlight 1), I will probably go ahead and test the second one too (maybe...). Runtime is pretty good but not quite what they advertise. At the time that I stopped the test at 22 lux the readings were dropping about 1/10th a lux every 4-5 seconds. So had I run it down to 0 at that rate it would have added up to about 18 more minutes of runtime. With higher capacity NiMH batteries this light might actually make it to the advertised 5 hour mark, though it would probably be fairly dim by then.
PS. For anyone else who has one of these, take the tailcap off and take a whif of the inside. What is that smell?
Once again you guys have forced me to spend money and stay up until the whee hours playing with flashlights! :thumbsup:
I bought 2 of the new Coleman Max Cree 2xAA flashlights yesterday and have some beamshots with a Fenix L2S for comparison as well as a runtime graph.
Not an entirely fair comparison I know, the L2S is only rated at 45 lumens while the Coleman is rated at 115 lumens. This was the best I could do though. Besides the obvious brightness difference, the other big difference is the size of the spill. The Coleman has a bright hotspot and a fairly bright spill that coveres a good amount of area, slightly less than the L2S but much brighter. Color is a bit warmer but not much, and in actual use you probably won't really notice it.
Since I have two of these I tested them both for throw and overall brightness, first with fresh Eneloops then with the Duracell alkalines that were included in the package. Since I got two different sets of numbers I then swapped the batteries between the two lights to rule out a difference caused by the two different chemestries and came up with similar results for each flashlight (readings @ 1 meter using the Quickbeam methods).
Flashlight 1
- 1935 Throw
- 7020 Overall
- 97.5 Lumens
Flashlight 2
- 2187 Throw
- 8050 Overall
- 111.8 Lumens
So quality control isn't quite perfect with these, not entirely surprising. In actual use both lights are close in output and very bright, the manufacturer claim of 115 lumens is not too far off if you happen to get one of the better units.
I only tested one of the flashlights during the runtime test (flashlight 1), I will probably go ahead and test the second one too (maybe...). Runtime is pretty good but not quite what they advertise. At the time that I stopped the test at 22 lux the readings were dropping about 1/10th a lux every 4-5 seconds. So had I run it down to 0 at that rate it would have added up to about 18 more minutes of runtime. With higher capacity NiMH batteries this light might actually make it to the advertised 5 hour mark, though it would probably be fairly dim by then.
PS. For anyone else who has one of these, take the tailcap off and take a whif of the inside. What is that smell?
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