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I have my teal Everled in a Lumilite K-2AA, this light is trimmed in teal. Very cool combination.
 
Of the dozen or so flashlights I have tried my EverLED in so far, the one that has the best overall beam is the Eveready Arc White. Probably the next best is the cheapy Target 4AA faceted reflector model.
 
My Everled came Friday. I put it in my PT Vortec with the dimpled reflector. It works great! The beam color is pure white with a tight focus and faint wide angle spill light. I'll try to take some pics tonight and post them tomorrow hopefully.

It appears that the length of the metal base on the everled is slightly longer than a standard PR base bulb. The positive tip on the base of the everled is shorter that the standard PR base bulb. This caused the everled not to work in a cheap garrity 2AA light.

Overall, I'm glad I bought the everled.
 
I have my teal Everled in a Lumilite K-2AA, this light is trimmed in teal. Very cool combination. I did an informal runtime test with this light.

I used 2-AA Powerex 1600 mah nimh about 1 year old, still warm off the charger. Ran light for 3 1/2 hours. At the end of the test it was just starting to look a little dimmer. Head of the light was just slightly warm throughout the test. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

That's my unofficial result and i'm sticking with it!! Hopefully some of you better equipted to test will post some more scientific results soon. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/help.gif

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Mine came last week
tried it in my M^&5&^light 3d and the beam was
funkieee
tried it in my turtle 2 with dimpled reflector
a match made in heaven /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
very happy very white
Edude
 
I just got my order, #853 on 4/9. I tried it in a Mag 2D, but the led flickered every time I adjusted the focus. Bad contacts? Anyway, I've now got it in my Koehler-Bright Star 4AA responder and I love it. Runs nice and bright off 4 Sanyo 1700 NiMHs.

Edit: ...Utill I blew it up. Got the LED at 5pm, blew it at 7pm. I was (or thought I was) carefully watching the polarity on the bulb module in the Responder. Nope, it's dead. It's way too easy to kill this thing and at $40 a pop, I'm not getting another.
 
Got my two tonight. One will definitely reside in my Turtle lite casing where it casts a smooth broad swath that is probably twice as bright as my mini-mag badboy 500 light (although not as much spill as the mag/bb500). The other currently resides in my mag 2C I like the way the light focuses down and really makes a good throw however the beam is somewhat splotchy much like with a mag's regular incandescent. Anybody have recommendations of a light where I could focus the beam down or it already is that way but with a smooth hotspot? When focused down to it's tightest spot, the light throw from the mag although much narrower isn't that much less then my E2. Based on people's post, I guess some of the modder's lights are brighter but these two lights blow away all of my many low dome luxeon's including the Surefire KL1 which is the brightest one I own, and both have a very white beam as others have mentioned.
 
This brings up the point that you shouldn't put these in ANYTHING other than a Mag without checking the polarity. Anything even remotely different than 2 D cells pointed upwards seems to have the possibility of being backwards!

I'll bet the EverLED guys are as surprised at how prevalent that is as we are!
 
I'll second that: a warning to restrict these to Maglights is a good idea for now. I place the blame mostly on the side-by-side flashlights for not being "keyed" to go in polarity-correct, because LED supply can't control where these things are put.

But I believe that a $40 device should not be so easy to destroy without physical force. I'm all for effeciency, but my dead EverLED is very now 0% efficient because there is no polarity protection. I'm sure the protection circuitry on Li-Ion batteries hurts the efficiency too.
 
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Could it be that none of our dedicated CPF'ers with testing equipment have received theirs yet (knowing that they must have ordered one or more already...)?

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Still waiting.....
 
I finally got mine today /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif Ordered 3/28 (Order #862) and got it today, 4/11, so pretty reasonable /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

I've tried it in all my PR bulb lights here, making VERY VERY VERY sure they are positive tip. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

I've tried it in a cheap 2AA green coleman, beam was bad, probably unfocused. Not very viable use there.

Dorcy Solid State, had some trouble with it flickering (god, first time I tried it I about died, I thought I blew it backwards or something) but apparently the contacts weren't great. Even after some tinkering it wasn't good, finally got it shining solid, and I wasn't happy with the beam in it at all either. Put the original LED back in it, it's my bedtime light.

4D mag, looks sweet, but devil of a time fitting that thing in my pocket. I'll have to check out the beam again at night with the Mag, inside in the daytime it looks really nice.

2AA Garrity light, came in a pack with a 2C and batteries. It's a red body with the grip covered in a black rubber with little bumps on it, small rubber wrist strap, fairly large head for a 2AA light and its' reflector is dimpled and a little over an inch wide. It looks pretty darn good in this light, good hotspot and quite a bit of side spill.

I'm going to try them all in the dark again later, but I'm really happy. I think I might try finding a mag-light 2AA light with a PR bulb, hopefully focusable, but I'm afraid the bulb is going to be too tall and not focus well.

Brightness, with the bulb in the 2AA Garrity vs my Inretech Mag replacement, the EverLED is quite a bit brighter, and I am really happy with my Inretech so I'm tickled over the EverLED.

I think I have a few more lights around here I've retired I'll try later.. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Oh, my EverLED came with a little slip of paper with large bold lettering saying DO NOT USE in lights without positive tip battery contact, but it says it MAY damage it otherwise.. Perhaps they've since reworded this to say IT WILL damage it.
 
Quick followup..

Hard to tell with the colors and beam pattern, but the EverLED looks the same brightness in my Mag 4D comparing to treetop spotting 200 yards out. This in itself for an LED is great to me /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif Spot is quite tight (although as some have mentioned, has a bit of a pattern to the beam still, likely the die?) and flood is reasonable, looks pretty much like the original bulb.

The Dorcy; turns out the original Dorcy branded batteries were dead after a year of extensive use. What a ripoff.. 😛 I changed them out and the EverLED produces a beam pattern nearly exactly like the Dorcy LED, except much much brighter. Very nice.

The Garrity light still wins for overall beam and size, has a reasonable hot spot on it. Compared to my Inretech 2AA with its flood-like pattern the EverLED really lights up something 50 feet away while the Inretech floods the area.

Oh, the big question everyone has I forgot to add, beam color? WHITE. White white white. If I put the beam up against a white surface the spill light is a very light blueish color, absolutely no green. I happen to like the blueish color (I even like my Brinkman Rebel/Long Life) so I think it's really nice.

I wish I could afford one for every flashlight, I love it! And btw, I plopped the dead Dorcy's in the 2AA Garrity and ran around for about 25 minutes with it last night and it was bright as can be, so not sure why those batteries in the Dorcy body didn't work well, but I'll run those things dry.
 
I must say that overall I'm disappointed in the beam pattern in my mag. I have a low dome emitter that I put into a 2d mag running 3c's using the mag reflector. The beam pattern is awesome. Nice round hot spot with huge soft side spill. When I compare the Everled to this light, the Everled wins in color and overall light output, but the beam quality doesn't even come in a distant second. I'm sure it will work better in other lights, but I bought it specifically for mags. I was assuming that for $39 I would have gotten a much better beam. I would like to see this product in a high dome as I think the beam quality would be greatly improved. I need to look for a replacement light for it to go in.
 
I found a home for my EverLED. I'm using an Energizer Comfort Grip flashlight. It runs off 2 C cells. Don't let the looks fool you, its not waterproof in any way. Made out of ABS plastic and includes an already attached wrist lanyard.

There's no spring to force when installing batteries. The top half opens up for you to lay the batteries inside. The top half is also rubber so your hand does not slip while holding the light. When you shut the door it pushes the batteries up to make contact. There is no place to put a spare bulb, but theres a cavity behind the reflector and I managed to fit the original bulb in there. Getting it back out is another matter. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

I'm looking at getting possibly 2 more EverLEDs. One for my Lantern (I've decided I want runtime in it). So gotta figure out what colors I want. I figure another white, possibly the other teal. Hmm. decisions.. decisions..
 
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I'm looking at getting possibly 2 more EverLEDs. One for my Lantern (I've decided I want runtime in it). So gotta figure out what colors I want. I figure another white, possibly the other teal. Hmm. decisions.. decisions..

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I have the teal Everled and I am happy to say I am very happy with it. I really can't imagine the color being any more pleasing.

I am thinking of picking up a couple of yellow ones to put in lanterns for outdoor/boat use. Anyone have any comments on the various colored Everleds? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif
 
I got my Everled about 3 weeks ago and have been testing it in all kinds of flashlights. I really don't like the beam I get from my Maglite and my other smooth reflector flashlights. It currently resides in my 2AA Pochacco Sanrio flashlight using 4 1/2 size NiMH AAs. It's nice and bright and has a decently smooth spot. I think this is just luck that the crappy reflector works well with the SE Luxeon. Overall, great! It's a little pricey still and I would have preferred a HD emitter instead.
 
I found some information out when I e-mailed the company, and I don't know if anyone else knows this.
They said that because the LED goes through a special process, it allows the bulb to have more reliable output (no Luxeon lottery), but more importantly, the bulb can handle a maximum temperature of 212 degrees, istead of the 120 for regular LS's. They went on to say that the circutry in the bulb will keep the bulb at 150 degrees at 9 volts, though a little higher in a plastic flashlight (say 160 degrees?). This means that the heatsinking problem that everyone is worried about just isn't a problem, like the company has allways said.
People say the bulb is "too warm to be comfortable". Well, if this light were overheating, then it would burn you instantly. Fortuneatly, the circutry prevents it from going that high.
 
First of all, that 120 deg that the Luxeon is rated at is in Celcius, which translates to 248 deg F. Since you said 212 deg, I'm going to guess that you're talking about F, which would be 100 deg C, which is less that the absolute maximum spec that Lumileds specifies.

If their circuity is keeping the luxeon at 150 deg F, which is 66 deg C, then light output will be down to just over 80% of what it would be if it were at room temperature. Personally, I don't like my output to be reduced due to getting hot, and I have to question the longevity of subjecting the luxeon to these temps for extended periods.

As for this special super secret process that they're putting the luxeons through to make them magically better...no comment.

Mark
 
I didn't even think of that. Goes to show just how inexperienced I am in these kinds of things.
So how much damage would repeated heating and cooling do to the LED, as in any flashlight? Would these drastic temerature changes affect the output drastically (50 deg. F to 160 deg. F)? Would the damage be over years or months? About how long? Is the LS designed to take these changes?
So many questions, so little time, right?
 
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