Gaffle
Enlightened
These lights are perfect for someone like me who does not own a Quark. I would rather go for the most bang for my buck, even if its just a little more bang.
It is funny that for a long time lights were rated via emitter lumens. We all knew that something like the Jetbeam C-LE wasn't really spitting up 100 lumens OTF, but thats what it was rated at, 100 lumens. Even Fenix lights at were not rated via OTF. Now companies are all about the OTF lumens. Then 4Sevens stepped it up a notch with the ANSI rating. Whew, its enough to get us flashaholics all sweaty!
Well measuring light in a sphere for x amount of time shows that in a lot of cases the lights do run at their maximum lumen rating, but not for long. Some lights do better and some lights drop a lot in 3 minutes. For those of you who have not read the sphere stickie here you go. It is interesting how much light is lost in a short time.
In doing a brief search I cannot find how a flashlight is rated via ANSI lumens. I just assumed in the ANSI test the light was measured in a sphere for x amount of time. I found a site which talks about a standardized test for flashlights via ANSI, but not how the test is conducted. It seems that most ANSI tests right now are for front projectors.
It is funny that for a long time lights were rated via emitter lumens. We all knew that something like the Jetbeam C-LE wasn't really spitting up 100 lumens OTF, but thats what it was rated at, 100 lumens. Even Fenix lights at were not rated via OTF. Now companies are all about the OTF lumens. Then 4Sevens stepped it up a notch with the ANSI rating. Whew, its enough to get us flashaholics all sweaty!
Well measuring light in a sphere for x amount of time shows that in a lot of cases the lights do run at their maximum lumen rating, but not for long. Some lights do better and some lights drop a lot in 3 minutes. For those of you who have not read the sphere stickie here you go. It is interesting how much light is lost in a short time.
In doing a brief search I cannot find how a flashlight is rated via ANSI lumens. I just assumed in the ANSI test the light was measured in a sphere for x amount of time. I found a site which talks about a standardized test for flashlights via ANSI, but not how the test is conducted. It seems that most ANSI tests right now are for front projectors.