Geepondy
I elluded to manufactures specs that SF rates the E1 at 15 lumens. Further, as ARC has no published lumen output for the Luxeon Star, the only comparable Luxeion Star is the SureFire L1. Last Friday on a my "field trip' to SureFire, I compared the ARC to the L1, and the L1 meaasured appx 2200 lux, and the ARC 1700 lux at a distance of 1 foot from the sensor. SureFire has stated the output of the L1 as being 13 lumens*
I need to qualify thses numbers...
1) have gotten slightly higher readings with the ARC with brand new batteries
2) I do not know the nature of the L1 that PK showed me*
The thing about the digital lights from SF is that, for lack of a better word, they are "programable". In simple words, if SF wants to have a higher output, they just program the circuit for shorter run time. The converse is also true, lower output would result in a longer run time. Pk did tell me that they had LS than ran over 5 hours, but did not mention the lumen output. He also said they could achieve the 18 lumens output, but with signigficant thermal run away issues, and I am sure, a much reduced run time.