New 3 LED lights

flange938 · Oct 11, 2007

I find the new,factory, 3Xcree, or SSC lights interesting.Can anybody
start a list ? I've ordered one from Dx and Kai and anticipate their arrival.
Is the Solarforce different from the MX Power ? Are the $200 ones really
worth 4 times as much ? Are some of them junk ? How do they stack up
against 500 lumen incans ? What is the one that uses 3 18650's ? Many of my questions will have to wait until some of these lights actually become available, of course. At the least it appears we have a new collecting niche.

Khaytsus · Oct 11, 2007

flange938 said:
I find the new,factory, 3Xcree, or SSC lights interesting.Can anybody
start a list ? I've ordered one from Dx and Kai and anticipate their arrival.
Is the Solarforce different from the MX Power ? Are the $200 ones really
worth 4 times as much ? Are some of them junk ? How do they stack up
against 500 lumen incans ? What is the one that uses 3 18650's ? Many of my questions will have to wait until some of these lights actually become available, of course. At the least it appears we have a new collecting niche.

I'm sure they will be nowhere near 500 lumens, poor quality, shoddy electronics and works, bad switches...

Just what you expect!

LEDninja · Oct 11, 2007

If I was spending $200, I would get the Firelion 3AA from Elektrolumens and run it off Eneloops. No worries about taking extra care of multiple lithium ion batteries to avoid an explosion.
It has a floody beam which I find very useful (in My Little Friends also from Elektrolumens).

The Cree P3 bin produces ~167 lumens at 1000 mA. 3 will produce ~501 lumens at the LED or 300+ lumens out front. Since the 3xCree lights are more recent with better LEDs I expect up to 600 lumens at the LED or 400 lumens out front.

jasonsmaglites · Oct 11, 2007

i love my solarforce.
i do worry about the lithium batteries although if i was ignorant i would have no reason to i'm sure.

flange938 · Oct 12, 2007

You may be right about the quality, but I've been happy with previous Ultraforce lights. I'm probably not going to use these that hard.

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