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Flashlight Enthusiast
My favorite visitor - the UPS Delivery Man - left a couple of things yesterday . . .
Initial impressions are very good. The E2L-A provides a noticeable bump in performance over the previous E2L and the new E1L-A (as it should) and my one sample has a much whiter beam than my E1L-A. For those that are sensitive to such things, there is still a greenish tint around the edges but it's an absolute non-issue to me. I don't have an expert eye for color rendering but it appears to do a pretty good job.
I'm a little bit surprised that the E2L-A does not have the same pocket clip as the new E2DL Ultra which includes a hole for attaching a lanyard. Instead, the clip is solid like on the LX2 and A2L. I can't believe that SureFire is planning to produce two nearly identical clips over the long term so I suspect that we will begin seeing the newer style clip on all these lights in the future, as the older ones are depleted.
The E2LAA-A is my first AA powered SureFire so, unfortunately, I can't compare it to the earlier E2LAA. However, I can say that it has the whitest beam of the three latest generation Outdoorsman lights I have received. It comes supplied with Energizer Ultimate Lithium AA batteries.
A picture is worth 1000 words so . . . .
Three different bezel assemblies (from left to right - E1L-A, E2L-A, E2LAA-A)
When compared to the other two, the E1L-A (far right) has a noticeably purple cast to the lens/optic. As far as I know, all SureFire's have AR coatings on them but it's much more pronounced on the E1L-A
It takes a long time to perform runtime tests on these lights so that's still in progress. So far, I have only completed the E2L-A on 2xCR123. As time permits I plan to test it on 1x17670.
It's obvious that the E2L-A does not use the same step down strategy as the E1L-A (unless you count the step down at the 368 minute mark
). The output was very stable over the first 6+ hours before it began dropping in approximately 10% increments over the next 30 minutes. It then settled out at around 11-12% of initial output for the next 40 minutes and then after a brief burst of higher output, dropped down to a "moonlight" level. The E2L-A was still producing this lowest level of light after 9.5 hours when I gave up and went to bed last night.
So far, SureFire has absolutely nailed it with regard to their advertised runtimes on the new Outdoorsman lights. In my tests of the E1L-A and E2L-A they both ran for exactly one minute over their advertised runtime to the 10% level. Regardless of what anyone may think about the output levels or total runtime, I think this consistency says something about the manufacturing tolerances for these lights and batteries.
Based on my samples, the output of the E2L-A is about 25% greater than the E2L with KX2. Runtimes are very similar even though the lights behave slightly different when they drop out of the highest output. The E2L-A better tolerates nearly dead batteries with a consistent low output while the KX2 version began pulsing somewhere around the 9.5 hour mark. (not shown on chart)
EDIT: The full reviews for the E2L-A and E2LAA-A are now up!
The E2LAA-A is currently burning through a set of Eneloops so I don't have complete information on it yet. So far I can say that its initial measured output is virtually identical to the E2L-A and that it exhibits the same behavior as the E1L-A with a step-down to 75% after running for 2 minutes.
Weather permitting I will get some outdoor beamshots tonight and will hopefully have a review of the E2L-A completed tomorrow. The E2LAA-A will take a bit longer as I will still want to test it with the Energizer Lithiums and a set of Energizer Alkalines.
Initial impressions are very good. The E2L-A provides a noticeable bump in performance over the previous E2L and the new E1L-A (as it should) and my one sample has a much whiter beam than my E1L-A. For those that are sensitive to such things, there is still a greenish tint around the edges but it's an absolute non-issue to me. I don't have an expert eye for color rendering but it appears to do a pretty good job.
I'm a little bit surprised that the E2L-A does not have the same pocket clip as the new E2DL Ultra which includes a hole for attaching a lanyard. Instead, the clip is solid like on the LX2 and A2L. I can't believe that SureFire is planning to produce two nearly identical clips over the long term so I suspect that we will begin seeing the newer style clip on all these lights in the future, as the older ones are depleted.
The E2LAA-A is my first AA powered SureFire so, unfortunately, I can't compare it to the earlier E2LAA. However, I can say that it has the whitest beam of the three latest generation Outdoorsman lights I have received. It comes supplied with Energizer Ultimate Lithium AA batteries.
A picture is worth 1000 words so . . . .
Three different bezel assemblies (from left to right - E1L-A, E2L-A, E2LAA-A)
When compared to the other two, the E1L-A (far right) has a noticeably purple cast to the lens/optic. As far as I know, all SureFire's have AR coatings on them but it's much more pronounced on the E1L-A
It takes a long time to perform runtime tests on these lights so that's still in progress. So far, I have only completed the E2L-A on 2xCR123. As time permits I plan to test it on 1x17670.
It's obvious that the E2L-A does not use the same step down strategy as the E1L-A (unless you count the step down at the 368 minute mark
). The output was very stable over the first 6+ hours before it began dropping in approximately 10% increments over the next 30 minutes. It then settled out at around 11-12% of initial output for the next 40 minutes and then after a brief burst of higher output, dropped down to a "moonlight" level. The E2L-A was still producing this lowest level of light after 9.5 hours when I gave up and went to bed last night.So far, SureFire has absolutely nailed it with regard to their advertised runtimes on the new Outdoorsman lights. In my tests of the E1L-A and E2L-A they both ran for exactly one minute over their advertised runtime to the 10% level. Regardless of what anyone may think about the output levels or total runtime, I think this consistency says something about the manufacturing tolerances for these lights and batteries.
Based on my samples, the output of the E2L-A is about 25% greater than the E2L with KX2. Runtimes are very similar even though the lights behave slightly different when they drop out of the highest output. The E2L-A better tolerates nearly dead batteries with a consistent low output while the KX2 version began pulsing somewhere around the 9.5 hour mark. (not shown on chart)
EDIT: The full reviews for the E2L-A and E2LAA-A are now up!
The E2LAA-A is currently burning through a set of Eneloops so I don't have complete information on it yet. So far I can say that its initial measured output is virtually identical to the E2L-A and that it exhibits the same behavior as the E1L-A with a step-down to 75% after running for 2 minutes.
Weather permitting I will get some outdoor beamshots tonight and will hopefully have a review of the E2L-A completed tomorrow. The E2LAA-A will take a bit longer as I will still want to test it with the Energizer Lithiums and a set of Energizer Alkalines.
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