Actually the cr123 lights are very inexpensive to run. Personally I use rechargeable cells I get to use them over and over lets say 100 times and the battery costs $5.00 that makes this light somewhat less expensive to use than many many lights. They are certainly no more expensive to run than a flashlight that uses Nimh cells except that you usually need more than one minh cell and the good ones cost $4.00.
You may find running 123 flashlights LESS expensive. Try it. You might like it.
Peter the P1. Is a light that people would have been jumping for joy fo 1 year ago. It has everything many people were looking for in a light when the arc LS series of lights was available. now a few years down the road and what it boils down to is that we are all LUX Iiird out. It is time to see some real innovation in the flashlight world. We have guys building multilevel drivers, super high efficiency boost converters, we have guys like Mr Bulk McGizmo making innovative lights all based on the same formula.
one cell Lux III.
What this place needs are the K2 emitters, and some new designs.
The fenix does a lot for $40.00. A year ago you could buy a firefly it would cost you 3 x as much and the beam was crappier.
I don't see these single cell lights talking over the world. I think that people will finally decide that brightest is not allays best. I believe we will see more 2 cell lights with very efficient drivers allowing for multi levels and good runtimes.
On the surface of things the feniz is a good value.
if you scratch the surface you see that they are not extremely well made big globs of solder, hand finished contact nipples. don't forget these lights are made by PEOPLE who are being paid pennies to crank out these things.
Personally I am having a hard time supporting it. I do. but I also do my best to be conscious of the consequences. Watch where your money is going. Certainly not into the quality of this light. And not into the pockets of th people who are making them.
Yaesumofo
BlackDecker said:
P1 doesn't do anything for me. Don't own a single CR123 based light, and never plan on doing so. Too expensive to feed those lights compared to lights like the L1P using normal AA NiMh batteries.