New Surefire E2DL 200 LUMENS?!?!

I just received an e-mail and noticed that Surefire sent it to me with the subject line of: "New E2D LED Defender Now 200 Lumens" and came here to post this info. Heres the link: http://www.surefire.com/E2DL. I'm guessing they're using the same internals as the Lx2 but now have decided to put a strike bezel on it. I'm in for 1 LOL.

with a $149 price tag!

I got the same email and am interested. SUBSCRIBED

It's just to compete with the LX2. Probably same LED.

lol that would be funny if they only increased the paper spec, since some of them already measure 200..

Search said:

It's just to compete with the LX2. Probably same LED.

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Thats my thought exactly. Either way I'm down for 1. I always wanted a strike bezel on my LX2 now I get the best of both worlds.

This is what I'm wondering when I got the email. Did they change anything on the light itself? or just updated the specs....

same here, I had the E2D, now the E2DL mkI,and then i get this lovely email. I guess they updated the light. Now it'll probably put out close to 250lumens.

Still no reason to "upgrade" from the mkI

HELL YEAH!!!!! Just got this from SureFire:

*******s! Just when I had decided I was OK with my E2DL instead of the LX2!

Ok, the "old" one was already over 200 lumens, so this one might very well be very close to 300 out the front. I'm down for one or two!

Outdoors Fanatic said:

Ok, the "old" one was already over 200 lumens, so this one might very well be very close to 300 out the front. I'm down for one or two!

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I don't know about that. I think they basically used the same LX2 head internals on this "new" E2DL. But either way I'm down for 1

Darn you Surefire just as I was about to spend all my money on some newly released lights you pull me back in to an old favorite.

Just got the email, for a second I thought I would be the first one to make a thread about this..:sigh:

Anyway, I kinda feel this is not fair. All the folks who bought a 120 lumen E2DL for $149 and now there's a new one with 200 lumens for the same price.:thumbsdow

Notice that on the website the stats do not say "improved performance" like on other models that actually did get an update. I think they are finally starting to use the real OTF lumens we have known the E2DL for. I guess we'll have to wait and see until someone gets one and compares it to the previous "120 lumen" version.

Yikes....
The old one did 200L OTF.
New one claims 60% increase.

60% x 200 = 120 additional Lumens!!!



By that logic, you could run it off a 17670 and still get over 200 OTF :twothumbs

xpawel18x said:

I think they are finally starting to use the real OTF lumens we have known the E2DL for. I guess we'll have to wait and see until someone gets one and compares it to the previous "120 lumen" version.

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I don't think SF would do that. Historically they have always been one of the few who honestly rate their products for Lumen output. If they advertise a 60% increase of the new versus the old, I am inclined to believe that it is an actual OTF increase. Not just a spec update.

xpawel18x said:

Notice that on the website the stats do not say "improved performance" like on other models that actually did get an update. I think they are finally starting to use the real OTF lumens we have known the E2DL for. I guess we'll have to wait and see until someone gets one and compares it to the previous "120 lumen" version.

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the email said that "its light output increased by an impressive 60%." that indicates a performance upgrade, not a rating change.

if SF changed the way it did its ratings, wouldn't it have increased them on all its other products, too?

Not every E2DL put out 200L. MrGman admitted his 200L one was brighter than most others he saw and somebody tested another one at 160L. I think they are likely up to Q5's consistantly or more likely just using the LX2 drive specs and so can increase the spec lumens.

Man I was about to put my LX2 up for sale anyway. Sweet. On my short list....

OH YEA!!! does batteryjunction have these in stock??:twothumbs