AlexSchira
Enlightened
- Joined
- Dec 7, 2005
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With all these threads bouncing around about power outages with wild weather, it got me thinking about keeping some extra lights around for friends and the like, or just to have around to make digging around for one easier. I needed something durable, simplistic, and long-running. 2D Maglites won the coin toss. But who am I kidding, I'm an LED-guy, the drop-ins are where it's at.
Nite Ize says you get flat, unchanging output for 75 hours off the 2D, but it's a true power outage light in that it runs long with barely any throw or real power to it. Then again, 75 hours is 75 hours.
For a very, very similar price I could get a pre-made 2D Mag-LED at Home Depot. I've heard the pre-made versions have more of a yellow tint than the drop-ins, but with how those things perform it's forgivable. Great spill, awesome throw, I've heard they have decent runtime. But not as much as the Nite Ize.
Is the extra power worth the cut back runtime, even with how long these LEDs last compared to others? Or should I get conservative and go with the Nite Ize drops and be ready for any kind of blackout?
Nite Ize says you get flat, unchanging output for 75 hours off the 2D, but it's a true power outage light in that it runs long with barely any throw or real power to it. Then again, 75 hours is 75 hours.
For a very, very similar price I could get a pre-made 2D Mag-LED at Home Depot. I've heard the pre-made versions have more of a yellow tint than the drop-ins, but with how those things perform it's forgivable. Great spill, awesome throw, I've heard they have decent runtime. But not as much as the Nite Ize.
Is the extra power worth the cut back runtime, even with how long these LEDs last compared to others? Or should I get conservative and go with the Nite Ize drops and be ready for any kind of blackout?