turbodog
Flashaholic
I hadn't bought a light in a week or so, so I decided to order an everled and a opalec from brightguy. Before buying the everled, I looked for reviews/etc on it, and came up short. I did read Craig's review, before you ask.
I put this up here to show other people a few things I missed in the reviews, and to ask why doesn't this thing get more coverage here?
Other reviews say that the bulb is good for 1-6 cells. However, the box/manual says that full power is only realized after using 3 or more cells. This leads me to believe that this thing is only using a "downboy" type regulator. I hope to take some time to setup my multimeters and monitor it with different input voltages. Sadly I do not have a light meter though.
I put it in a 4 cell d mag, and am HIGHLY pleased with the color output and beam focusability. It would be nice if I could get my hands on a spacer to move the bulb further up in the holder. I think this would allow better and tighter focusing, as the focus tightness reaches maximum before the cam mechanism "bottoms out". This seems to me to put the bulb in the wrong spot for best focusing from the parabolic reflector. Even with this, I could easily and clearly light up stuff from 150' away.
Probably the best way I could describe it is to say that if you didn't know it was an led bulb in your mag/etc, you could not tell the difference.
Others are welcome to flame, oops, I mean comment on all this.
As to the second objective I have... why doesn't this bulb get more exposure here??? We're all wanting high power led lights with good throw, focusability, heatsinking, etc. Unless I am way off here, this thing fits the bill pretty darn well. Spend about $40 for the bulb and take a standard mag (1-6 cells) c or d size batts and you have a pretty darn good setup. I don't see a huge reason someone could not make this thing in a 5 watt version. There is enough physical room to work to even add an adjustment pot (aka madmax).
So what gives... is this a "too easy" solution. Sometimes I think we all like doing things the hard way.
Also, back to color for a second. I REALLY love the color temp on this thing. It doesn't have the washed out blue look of so many other led lights. I compared it to the opalec module, my badboy 400, and my arc lsh. Colors look more vivid with it. What's up with that? That is partly what I meant when I said you would not know it was an led if you could only see the beam.
edit: The emitter and brass part were exactly as pictured on various web sites, but the positive battery contact was off center and sloppy, with manufacturing residues present. The engraved "everled" on the side of the bulb was filled in with some white powder that looked like powdered sheetrock or something. It still fit in the light fine though.
I put this up here to show other people a few things I missed in the reviews, and to ask why doesn't this thing get more coverage here?
Other reviews say that the bulb is good for 1-6 cells. However, the box/manual says that full power is only realized after using 3 or more cells. This leads me to believe that this thing is only using a "downboy" type regulator. I hope to take some time to setup my multimeters and monitor it with different input voltages. Sadly I do not have a light meter though.
I put it in a 4 cell d mag, and am HIGHLY pleased with the color output and beam focusability. It would be nice if I could get my hands on a spacer to move the bulb further up in the holder. I think this would allow better and tighter focusing, as the focus tightness reaches maximum before the cam mechanism "bottoms out". This seems to me to put the bulb in the wrong spot for best focusing from the parabolic reflector. Even with this, I could easily and clearly light up stuff from 150' away.
Probably the best way I could describe it is to say that if you didn't know it was an led bulb in your mag/etc, you could not tell the difference.
Others are welcome to flame, oops, I mean comment on all this.
As to the second objective I have... why doesn't this bulb get more exposure here??? We're all wanting high power led lights with good throw, focusability, heatsinking, etc. Unless I am way off here, this thing fits the bill pretty darn well. Spend about $40 for the bulb and take a standard mag (1-6 cells) c or d size batts and you have a pretty darn good setup. I don't see a huge reason someone could not make this thing in a 5 watt version. There is enough physical room to work to even add an adjustment pot (aka madmax).
So what gives... is this a "too easy" solution. Sometimes I think we all like doing things the hard way.
Also, back to color for a second. I REALLY love the color temp on this thing. It doesn't have the washed out blue look of so many other led lights. I compared it to the opalec module, my badboy 400, and my arc lsh. Colors look more vivid with it. What's up with that? That is partly what I meant when I said you would not know it was an led if you could only see the beam.
edit: The emitter and brass part were exactly as pictured on various web sites, but the positive battery contact was off center and sloppy, with manufacturing residues present. The engraved "everled" on the side of the bulb was filled in with some white powder that looked like powdered sheetrock or something. It still fit in the light fine though.
