Re: How do Coast LED flashlights compare to other
I have the 6 chip too. I played with the ones on display at lowes and the 1 watt models. The 1 watt models were all diffferent colors from the lottery, green, purple, brown, blue, no white ones. The other lights were marginal and one used N cells. I played with the 6 chip and was shocked at its bluish white light and further played with it. I bought it and use it to read my mail, catalogs and hte news paper.
Kind of puts my other multi led lights to shame.
I was of the assumption it was regulated or over driven as it has a 50k hour life and at that 50 hours per set of batteries. I tried running it on two cells, but the whites would barely light while the red was still strong.
I am still on my first set of batteries. Man it does get warm after a bit of use. The heat seems equal from the batteries and head area.
I just wished it was more of a mini mag shape than a short stubby shape. Also maybe mod it to use 3 aa batteries. Maybe me want to try an inova 5x or 7x to see if its brighter.