Why no P7 or MC-E that takes AA?

[BentHeadTX]

I'll take a L2D MCE!
Heck, if they made one take four AA cells, the MCE could run at 350mA per emitter. A L2D pushes 700mA to the emitter so 4AA pushing 1.4 amps won't be that bad at all. 430 LED lumens? It would be a very floody light but I would buy them for bike lights (I use L2D Q5's now)

 

[konut]

I'll take a L2D MCE!
Heck, if they made one take four AA cells, the MCE could run at 350mA per emitter. A L2D pushes 700mA to the emitter so 4AA pushing 1.4 amps won't be that bad at all. 430 LED lumens? It would be a very floody light but I would buy them for bike lights (I use L2D Q5's now)

Now just make the circuit versatile enough to accept 14500s, and you'd have a real winner! This is exactly the torch I want.

 

[MichaelW]

For multi-die emitters, you want a larger diameter reflector, so the configuration I'd like to see would be a triangular 3x AA 'L3D' mc-e.
and offer a parallel 3x14500 body/head.

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