SL Task-Light Luxeon

[THEluminator]

How bright is a tasklight luxeon 3aa? Any beamshots or lux readings?

 

[JohnK]

This is from Quickbeams site. A very nice (as always) review.

http://flashlightreviews2.home.att.net/reviews/streamlight_tasklux.htm

 

[HunterSon]

I have been playing with my 3AA Luxeon Task Light and of course decided to take it apart. Not completely just the reflector housing. When twisting the housing on I saw the Led flicker and on closer inspection found that the reflector came in contact with the Luxeon heat sink during the last 1/8 turn. A bit of sandpaper on the narrow end of the reflector and a q-tip to clean up the dust and it was perfect. One thing I noticed is when the reflector housing is removed it became an extremely wide flood light with the beam pattern covering about a six foot circle on a wall from 4 feet away. The colour is also an almost pure white light in a perfect circle. In contrast with the reflector in place the light has some colour artifacts ranging from light yellow to light blue. You will only notice this when shining it on a wall, outdoors it looks white and gives a good colour rendition of the object being illuminated. It has a suprising throw easily lighting up my garage from 50 yards away. The flashlight looks a little long but feels well balanced. I don't have any beam patterns to show you but for it's price it seems to be a real steal. You can take my mini review with a bit of salt as I am still a newbie with flashlights, having only owned mag lights in the past.

 

[JohnK]

Hunterson, you did well; my 3AA Lux has a bit of green when doing the infamous 18" white wall test (don't like them), but in real life, it has great throw, good color, and gives better color rendition that any incandescent.

A very nice light, with a wonderful warranty. Have another one on the way (plus the SL 5 Watt TL-3 LED). Can't wait for that one.

I did not think I would like the three AA configuration in the Twin-Task, or the Luxeon, but, WRONG, I like them, stick 'em through the belt when carrying, and they just feel good in the hand. You can (if necessary) whack the heck out of someone if it is necessary.

 

[Zeppert]

Does anyone know when the SL 5W Luxeon flashlight is coming out, and what body it is going to be placed in?

 

[THEluminator]

i hope it runs on 2 cr123a's. Or it could be a design similar to the propolymer 4aa. id use that

 

[MR Bulk]

The TL-3 was going to be three CR123's with resistance, but I hear they found a "beautiful converter" and are back in the R&D trenches to ensure this light comes out a winner, thus the delay.

 

[JohnK]

A pic is here :

http://www.red-diamond-unif.com/streamlight_tactical-nightfighter.htm

 

[fuja]

Pic & runtime is here .
(Review is written in Japanese)

 

[JohnK]

Fuja-good pics; the 3AA blows the Arc away...

 

[pedalinbob]

i am interested in this light...but i have lost the luxeon lottery too many times: 2 inretechs, 1 reactor, and 4 star/O were NASTY green. heck, i dont mind a little green, but these were GREEEEEEEN.
i will purchase a luxeon only if i am sure i will get a whitey.

this is why i am anxiously waiting for the Q3 madmaxes/badboys.

Bob

 

[JohnK]

Pedlin- I plan to test my SL TL-3 LED, and if it isn't white, back it goes !!

I noticed the thread about SF L4's, which had the better bins, someone visually checked a bunch, and they varied from really green to violet. Binning the way it's done now, doesn't guarantee much, with ANY manufacturer.

 

[Grummond]

I recently bought a 3AA Luxeon Task Light and it’s better than I was expecting both in quality and output.

Hey fuja thanks for sharing your pics with us, I don’t understand Japanese but the pictures alone are very informative, I like seeing beam shots of different lights together especially outside and at different ranges.

I know it’s not but looking at the runtime graph using NiMH it almost looks semi-regulated dropping off at the 4 hour mark.
I realise that with NiMH you get a flatter curve than with alkaline due to having less resistance but I was surprised to see just how prominent it is.

 

[brightnorm]

Solid, cleverly designed light with nonfunctional but rugged-looking circumferential grooves adding to "industrial/tactical" appearance. Mildly green tinted 1W in proprietary reflector projects a bright, semi-focusable beam with dispersion somewhere between LD spread and HD narrow focus, though different from both.

Two criticisms:

Clickie is minus a momentary on feature, but has momentary off from click-on position similar to the Nuwai and its siblings.

8.75" length virtually rules out EDC.

Note: I had planned to cut down and rethread the light to accept a 123 plus an AA but the inner diameter was too small for 123s.

Brightnorm

 

[RossB]

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THEluminator said:
i hope it runs on 2 cr123a's. Or it could be a design similar to the propolymer 4aa. id use that

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It's been a while since I last bugged ST to put the 4AA's 7-LED assembly in the Syclone. A Luxeon would be even better.

RossB