TrueValue light, whaddya think?

Anyone familiar with this light on sale at True Value?


It's supposed to be 45 lumens, so with 3 D batts, what kind of runtime would be expected?

It would be nice to have long lasting light around, so does this seem worth it?

Bill

BillMPL said:

Anyone familiar with this light on sale at True Value?

It's supposed to be 45 lumens, so with 3 D batts, what kind of runtime would be expected?

It would be nice to have long lasting light around, so does this seem worth it?

Bill

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Hey BillMPL, good find.

We got the exact same advert yesterday in the incoming junk mail.

The 2AA incan does nothing for me personally. I have probably a dozen or more little 2AA incan lights scattered around that never get used anymore. Well, maybe used as loaner lights once in a great while.

That big D-cell multi-LED light does interest me. Looks to me to have great potential as a long-runtime utility-work-blackout light. For only 10 bucks, it looks to be worth trying out.

If it turns out to be not so great, then I can always give it away to someone who is light deprived. It's probably a better blackout light than what 95% of my friends and relatives have availbable in their homes!


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As long as it has a resistor so LEDS don't start blinking out it looks like a great deal. And even if not is cheap enough to try!

So anybody have a rough estimate of what to expect for a run time on the 3 D light? It would make the difference on whether or not this deal would be worthwhile.

I think I will go pick one up tonite and check it out, only a sawbuck so what the heck!

OK, so I picked up one of these to try. The body doesn't seem quite as strong as a Mag, but not bad. They're a little dimmer than I would have expected, maybe the equivalent, total amount of light of my p2d on medium, but it has the warmest color of any multi LED I've seen. Obviously, being a multi LED, it has a nice flood pattern, and can light a room adequately when in candle mode. It should have a very long run time, so as an emergency light, I think it should work well. Anyone else try one of these?

Bill