Hey gents, I'm about 3 years out of date -- more details below -- so I humbly submit to your experience.
In the last few years, my hiking/camping/edc lineup has been as follows:
- Fenix L0D (1xAAA/70 lumen max) EDC on my keychain
- headlamp (3xAAA/70 lumen max) camping/hiking headlamp
- Ultra Fire C2 (2 x CR123/ Uknown max lumen). Link claims 100 lumens on 18650 but provides no info on using 123s. This is a great thrower for me, used mostly when hiking to see "what's over there, off trail". It's used fairly infrequently, in fact I've still got the 123 primaries in it that I bought 2.5 years ago! I'd like to replace it with an AA thrower of some sort. So far I've been looking at things like ZL SC51 that claim 200 lumens. Do you guys think it's a fair comparison? Is it realistic? I find it hard to believe that a light with half as much power can generate the same amount of light OTF, but LED tech moves quick. What do you think?
In the last few years, my hiking/camping/edc lineup has been as follows:
- Fenix L0D (1xAAA/70 lumen max) EDC on my keychain
- headlamp (3xAAA/70 lumen max) camping/hiking headlamp
- Ultra Fire C2 (2 x CR123/ Uknown max lumen). Link claims 100 lumens on 18650 but provides no info on using 123s. This is a great thrower for me, used mostly when hiking to see "what's over there, off trail". It's used fairly infrequently, in fact I've still got the 123 primaries in it that I bought 2.5 years ago! I'd like to replace it with an AA thrower of some sort. So far I've been looking at things like ZL SC51 that claim 200 lumens. Do you guys think it's a fair comparison? Is it realistic? I find it hard to believe that a light with half as much power can generate the same amount of light OTF, but LED tech moves quick. What do you think?
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