Anyone has this "regulated 3W" single CR123A from Dae?

The site claims it's "regulated," but at $19 a piece, I find it hard to believe. No reviews posted posted yet, it's labeled as a new product. I just want to know how it compares to the P1. At only 3w, it's one of their few lights that's not overdriven to some insane level (16,10, 7w...). Luxeon III clone as emitter?

http://www.qualitychinagoods.com/regulated-cr123a-suitable-lir123a-p-334.html

Re: Anyone has this "regulated 3W" single CR132A from Dae?

CR132?:huh2:

Re: Anyone has this "regulated 3W" single CR132A from Dae?

Maro said:

CR132?:huh2:

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What do you mean, Maro? It runs on a 123A primary cell.

Re: Anyone has this "regulated 3W" single CR132A from Dae?

daveman said:

What do you mean, Maro? It runs on a 123A primary cell.

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You have a typo in the title. I think his was questioning the CR132.

Fixed.

Have one. the switch is rather stiff.

Do NOT screw down the head to tighten it - the reflectors aren't all that well made and will cut the leads of the LED - in my case frying the regulator circuit while it was at it.

Apart from that, a nice enough light.

dulridge said:

Have one. the switch is rather stiff.

Do NOT screw down the head to tighten it - the reflectors aren't all that well made and will cut the leads of the LED - in my case frying the regulator circuit while it was at it.

Apart from that, a nice enough light.

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So it is regulated?? You wouldn't happen to have a P1 for throw/output/runtime comparison?

daveman said:

So it is regulated?? You wouldn't happen to have a P1 for throw/output/runtime comparison?

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Sorry. Mine died of tightening down the head and now has a resistor and a Prolight 3W LED in it. Works fine but the die size on Prolights is gigantic which leads to a fairly ugly beam.

AFAIR - from the short time it was working - its beam was just about the same as a 7W Golston running on a 17670 single cell, i.e. a quarter of the brightness of the Golston running on 2 x RCR123.

It certainly used to have a regulation circuit but it didn't last long enough to see how effective it was. REALLY don't tighten down the head.

Afraid I don't own a P1, but from what I've read, it is likely to be brighter.

I'm sorry to hear your loss, you should take solace in its cut-rate price. I'll stick to my P1.

But then you can get 2 of these delivered for the price of a P1. And I'm a cheapskate who doesn't mind getting his hands dirty.