Surefire LX2

[iapyx]

Check out the new interactive page on Surefire's website...it states the LX2 on high is 200 Lumens, 10 x that of a maglite!!

Looks like confirmation of the 200!!

Here we say: spuit 11
Litterally translated: hose 11

Let me quote the OP - post #1 :

Incase anyone cares, Surfire is listing the LX2 on their website now. Can't order directly from them yet but says its availible through their retailers.

Shane

 

[Outdoors Fanatic]

Originally Posted by Force Attuned
Check out the new interactive page on Surefire's website...it states the LX2 on high is 200 Lumens, 10 x that of a maglite!!

Looks like confirmation of the 200!!

+1!!

That's right! :twothumbs

 

[Blindasabat]

Why do people call things cr*p when they don't understand how OTHERS use lights?????? :shakehead You guys need to be a lot less narrow minded. Some people use their lights in different ways than you do and have different needs. All I get from posts like this is that you don't understand anything outside your own world. If it doesn't work for you, then say it didn't work for you, not just trash it.

My very green KL optic L1 (exact same beam as the KL1) was my favorite light for night running when training for a marathon. The beam and color both worked well outdoors. I had several (around 40) other lights to choose from, but the narrow green spot worked best. It worked well for many other of my uses too. I actually upgraded it to SSC thinking it would improve it, but wished several times I had not done so. The beam got too wide, threw no further, and the color, though very white, was worse outdoors.

People are falling all over aspherics right now, but the KL1 was really an early aspheric (note the square beam...) that got amazing throw from only about 25 Lumens. It wasn't for everybody - no light ever is.

I totally agree on the old KL1 or the pre-Cree L1 heads, the ugliest greenish square beam that is fairly bright but so ugly colored and shaped it makes me sick

I made the mistake of buying a KL1 head with the TIR optics.
It's the most worthless piece of cr*p flashlight design I have ever seen.
Little tiny square spot with absolutely no spill light. Closest thing I've seen to a completely useless flashlight.

 

[sORe-EyEz]

hi Blindasabat,

i agree the KL1 does a decent throw & does have a good wide coverage for its beam. it just needs to be paired with a flooder with no hotspot to cover most practical tasks.

i would love to have some SureFire "trash" from the local flashaholics.

 

[Hitthespot]

I'd like to know when Bright Guy begins to carry this light.

They should have them in stock on Thursday after 10:30. :twothumbs

I'm going up around lunch time if I can or after 4:00 for sure to check it out. I don't know if I will purchase, but I will compare it with a E2DL side by side.

Bill

 

[Outdoors Fanatic]

Try here as well: http://www.brightguy.com/products/SureFire_LX2_LumaMax.php

 

[half-watt]

Mathmagic ?

sure. mathemagical. just like many people think that if you do certain things, other things will "automagically" happen. the law of cause and effect is, one might say, "automagical" in nature in that the effect will "automagically" be produced by the cause. hope this helps clear things up a bit! 🙂

 

[CandlePowerForumsUser]

They should have them in stock on Thursday after 10:30. :twothumbs

I'm going up around lunch time if I can or after 4:00 for sure to check it out. I don't know if I will purchase, but I will compare it with a E2DL side by side.

Bill

Must be nice living near a distributor.

 

[cankster]

I just called Surefire and talked to a technical rep there. I asked him about the new LX2. He said it is rated at 200 lumens. But he said that as far as his eye was concerned it was not noticeably brighter than a E2DL. I asked him if he meant that Surefire was changing their normally very conservative lumen rating. He said it seemed like that for this flashlight.

Cankster

 

[half-watt]

I just called Surefire and talked to a technical rep there. I asked him about the new LX2. He said it is rated at 200 lumens. But he said that as far as his eye was concerned it was not noticeably brighter than a E2DL. I asked him if he meant that Surefire was changing their normally very conservative lumen rating. He said it seemed like that for this flashlight.

Cankster

looks like you've settled the debate and put an end to all my/the speculation. good job!

 

[Outdoors Fanatic]

Must be nice living near a distributor.

Nice and darn expensive...

 

[270winchester]

I just called Surefire and talked to a technical rep there. I asked him about the new LX2. He said it is rated at 200 lumens. But he said that as far as his eye was concerned it was not noticeably brighter than a E2DL. I asked him if he meant that Surefire was changing their normally very conservative lumen rating. He said it seemed like that for this flashlight.

Cankster

even so I'm looking forward to the LX2 if 200 lumens is guaranteed. My E2DL that is bright is no more than 145 lumens, so the extra brightness and the user-friendly UI will give a huge improvement.

 

[Kestrel]

even so I'm looking forward to the LX2 if 200 lumens is guaranteed. My E2DL that is bright is no more than 145 lumens, so the extra brightness and the user-friendly UI will give a huge improvement.

(E2DL output) + (two-stage UI of the SureFire L2) - (crennelations) = a nearly perfect two-cell light.
But will 1x17670 fit? :tinfoil:

 

[cankster]

even so I'm looking forward to the LX2 if 200 lumens is guaranteed. My E2DL that is bright is no more than 145 lumens, so the extra brightness and the user-friendly UI will give a huge improvement.

Agreed.

 

[Monocrom]

I'm going up around lunch time if I can or after 4:00 for sure to check it out. I don't know if I will purchase, but I will compare it with a E2DL side by side.

Bill

And now we wait....

 

[Patriot]

And now we wait....

+1


With excited expectation. I just hope this doesn't take too long.

 

[Federal LG]

I just called Surefire and talked to a technical rep there. I asked him about the new LX2. He said it is rated at 200 lumens. But he said that as far as his eye was concerned it was not noticeably brighter than a E2DL. I asked him if he meant that Surefire was changing their normally very conservative lumen rating. He said it seemed like that for this flashlight.

Cankster

"Surefire lumens" will become common chinese lights lumens ?

 

[o0o]

With this thread now a mile long, I may have missed if the LED in it was announced.

Please advise, is this an SSC, Rebel, Cree, other?

I'm in for one in the pre-order

But I want to know the LED this one uses.

 

[dcycleman]

now if they will only release the saint......

 

[CandlePowerForumsUser]

With this thread now a mile long, I may have missed if the LED in it was announced.

Please advise, is this an SSC, Rebel, Cree, other?

I'm in for one in the pre-order

But I want to know the LED this one uses.

assuming it uses an optic that is probably the same as the current KX1/KX2/E1B/ED2L lights, i'd say it uses a cree XRE but thats assuming it uses the same optics. we'll have to wait till someone has one in their hands to confirm anything though. the current optics works really well for me, nice throw and spill that works