5W 125 Lumens on 2 CR123s

Anyone seen this light? It's at www.laserdevices.com. Under handheld flashlights. It is called the Operative OV-1 LED. Item #31000LED. It says 5W 125 Lumens LED. Only 5.3". It looks good. ???

That does look good. Be interested to see what the experts on here say!!!!

It is an interesting looking line of lights. Never seen them or heard of them before your post. They seem to have a very limited dealer network. None of the usual ones familiar to most of us.

Also, 125 lumens is a very bold claim. That's more than the SF L4,L5,L6,L7 or U2.

Always like to learn more. At over $150, it's past the area of take a shot experimentation for me.

Mark

A good V bin Lux would fit that claim.

Maybe I can start a pass-around interest thread? Anyone here interested in getting in on that?

If Surefire has some real competition in LEDs, we should be the ones to find out.
There is a CPF review of an OV-1 3100 here.

That review is on the incan Operative. I picked up one of those when they first came out. Horrible light. Maybe they have improved them though.

Yeah, I just added that for reference (I should have said so... )
It was nothing more than some beamshots anyway, but it was all I found when searching CPF reviews. The purpose of a pass-around would be to generate a review of the LED version. If you have already owned an incan version and didn't like it, then I'm less likely to try to set up an LED pass-around.

TonyBPD said:

That review is on the incan Operative. I picked up one of those when they first came out. Horrible light. Maybe they have improved them though.

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I purchased the light at a Police Expo and the Laser Devices Rep. talked a great game. The typical, we are 10x better than Surefire blah blah blah. Needless to say I emailed him about the tests I ran on the light and how much I disliked it. He never wrote me back.

125 lumens on 2 123s...

Don't expect the actual runtime to be greater than 1.5 hours...

Illum_the_nation said:

125 lumens on 2 123s...

Don't expect the actual runtime to be greater than 1.5 hours...

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They claim only 45 minutes on the website. If that is a little optimistic as well, runtime would not be very good.

Here is a direct link to the light in question. Operative OV-1 LED

Mark

I noticed the 45 minute runtime as well. ".75 hours" Ha-ha... Hopefully it has or is capable of 2 stages. At half power is would (supposedly) put out around 60-ish lumens for much longer than an hour.

woo...sweet!

there was a review on another forums on the operator (cant find it).... it was quite impressive, it pretty much owned the surefire L4.

-David

I found the review on the other forum, but I don't think that it is permitted here to post a link to a thread on another forum. Is it???

PM it to me at your leisure if you would.

Big Bob said:

I found the review on the other forum, but I don't think that it is permitted here to post a link to a thread on another forum. Is it???

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If it is, post it please! If not, please send me a private message.

cheers

Big Bob said:

I found the review on the other forum, but I don't think that it is permitted here to post a link to a thread on another forum. Is it???

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Why not? Post away. I can't find a review of this light.

Flash_Gordon said:

They claim only 45 minutes on the website. If that is a little optimistic as well, runtime would not be very good.

Here is a direct link to the light in question. Operative OV-1 LED

Mark

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Well....this three year warranty bothers me....if Lumileds says it will run 100,000 hours and will last a lifetime, why use a warranty? unless what if its NOT using LUMILED'S LUXEON products?

Sorry guys, the review that I found was for the OP-6 LED which is also a 6-volt Laser Devices 5-watt LED light producing 125 lumens. In fact, the specs for the OV-1 LED appear to be essentally identical to those of the OP-6 LED. Possibly just a repackaging job by Laser Devices? In any event, my error and my apologies.

Says it runs for .75 hours on two 3volts. That seems to make the 125 lumen claim more credible.