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I ordered a number of flashlights for my family, all Fenix, and when I got them last week, I packed them away and didn't think anymore about it. I live one state away from my parents and my sister, and me, not needing anything real fancy, I saw no need to replace my regular Fenix L2D. But with a fresh set of batteries, I was quite astounded by the difference between my L2D and a Q5 P3D...or perhaps I should say, I was astounded that it wasn't as different as I'd thought.
Going onto the back deck where it was very dark, I cycled through the various power levels of both lights. The P3D Q5 was noticeably brighter than the L2D on FULL THROTTLE, but not as different as I expected. Both lights tore through a respectable distance and lit up objects way up in the woods lot. But it wasn't the difference I was expecting. If both had been Q5s, I wouldn't have been disappointed. The extra voltage in the P3D would have accounted for the difference. But seeing that my L2D wasn't the Q5, I was...perplexed.
Turning both lights OFF, I turned the heads clockwise to enter the LOW modes. Hitting the switches, I noticed that my L2D now had a distinct edge in brightness over the P3D. Both were dim, as expected, but the Q5 P3D was noticeably dimmer.
The batteries in my L2D were NiMH AAs. The batteries in the P3D were new Duracell lithums. I wondered if perhaps a Q5 had found its way into the head of my L2D or, worse, whether the two P3Ds I had might be defective. Or...maybe I was defective. Maybe I overlooked something.
Having previously compared two P3Ds, a Q5 and the previous version, in a dark woods, I wasn't sufficiently impressed by the difference between the two, but that was months ago with other lights. I also recently picked up a couple of Nitecore D10s and was very happy with those, though I didn't expect much light from them (being single AA lights). In that case, I wasn't disappointed, but for these I was far more interested in the LOW modes than the HIGH. They put out respectable light, and both were consistent.
Anyway, getting back to the Fenix lights, any comments on what I may have been experiencing?
Going onto the back deck where it was very dark, I cycled through the various power levels of both lights. The P3D Q5 was noticeably brighter than the L2D on FULL THROTTLE, but not as different as I expected. Both lights tore through a respectable distance and lit up objects way up in the woods lot. But it wasn't the difference I was expecting. If both had been Q5s, I wouldn't have been disappointed. The extra voltage in the P3D would have accounted for the difference. But seeing that my L2D wasn't the Q5, I was...perplexed.
Turning both lights OFF, I turned the heads clockwise to enter the LOW modes. Hitting the switches, I noticed that my L2D now had a distinct edge in brightness over the P3D. Both were dim, as expected, but the Q5 P3D was noticeably dimmer.
The batteries in my L2D were NiMH AAs. The batteries in the P3D were new Duracell lithums. I wondered if perhaps a Q5 had found its way into the head of my L2D or, worse, whether the two P3Ds I had might be defective. Or...maybe I was defective. Maybe I overlooked something.
Having previously compared two P3Ds, a Q5 and the previous version, in a dark woods, I wasn't sufficiently impressed by the difference between the two, but that was months ago with other lights. I also recently picked up a couple of Nitecore D10s and was very happy with those, though I didn't expect much light from them (being single AA lights). In that case, I wasn't disappointed, but for these I was far more interested in the LOW modes than the HIGH. They put out respectable light, and both were consistent.
Anyway, getting back to the Fenix lights, any comments on what I may have been experiencing?