Toohotruk
Flashlight Enthusiast
The other day I was at a trade show and as I was approaching one of the booths, I overheard the salesman telling someone about a flashlight they carried. Of course this instantly caught my attention, so I stood there and listened to his pitch. He was telling the guy that light had the brightest, cutting edge LED available in a flashlight, as well as how indestructible the light is, blah, blah, blah. He was shining the light up toward the ceiling (maybe 50 feet), and saying "Just look at how this sucker lights up that high ceiling! You won't find another LED flashlight that will do that!"
After the guy he was talking to moved on, I stepped up and picked up the light in question...it was made of black plastic, had a tail clickie (reverse), and the body design vaguely reminded me of one of those double barrel 4AA Eveready lights, but like I said, it was plastic. It had a pretty good sized smooth plastic reflector, maybe 1 1/2" and down inside that reflector was the newest, most cutting edge high powered LED that is made at this point in time...yep, it was a Luxeon I or III!
I can't for the life of me, remember the name or the brand of it though.
He told me to shine it up toward the ceiling, which I did and was pretty unimpressed as you can imagine. The salesman said "pretty amazing huh?! Bet you've never seen a light as bright as that one!"
I said, "Well, it is pretty bright, but take a look at this one..." Fortunately, I had my 6P with Malkoff M60 in my pocket. :devil: I fired that sucker up and you should have seen his jaw hit the floor! He said, "Where did you get that?! That's not an LED...is it?" I explained that it was a Cree LED and used an optic, blah, blah, blah.
One Surfire 6P...$39
One Malkoff M60...$55
Two AW RCR123s...$16.50 shipped
Shutting up a bragging salesman...Priceless! :devil:
After the guy he was talking to moved on, I stepped up and picked up the light in question...it was made of black plastic, had a tail clickie (reverse), and the body design vaguely reminded me of one of those double barrel 4AA Eveready lights, but like I said, it was plastic. It had a pretty good sized smooth plastic reflector, maybe 1 1/2" and down inside that reflector was the newest, most cutting edge high powered LED that is made at this point in time...yep, it was a Luxeon I or III!
I can't for the life of me, remember the name or the brand of it though.He told me to shine it up toward the ceiling, which I did and was pretty unimpressed as you can imagine. The salesman said "pretty amazing huh?! Bet you've never seen a light as bright as that one!"
I said, "Well, it is pretty bright, but take a look at this one..." Fortunately, I had my 6P with Malkoff M60 in my pocket. :devil: I fired that sucker up and you should have seen his jaw hit the floor! He said, "Where did you get that?! That's not an LED...is it?" I explained that it was a Cree LED and used an optic, blah, blah, blah.
One Surfire 6P...$39
One Malkoff M60...$55
Two AW RCR123s...$16.50 shipped
Shutting up a bragging salesman...Priceless! :devil:
And it wasn't a bad light per se, it was just the way the salesman kept saying it was the brightest cutting edge LED available that got to me...had he not said that over and over and over, the 6P would have remained in my pocket.
