Re: Peak LED MicKinley high power reviews/opinions
Sorry for the delay, real life intruded as it so often does. It's firmly on the schedule for tonight, though. A couple of observations now that I've had a bit more of a chance to play around with it:
1) It gets rather warm while running, especially if you're not holding it at the time. I left it in my pants pocket and must not have backed the head off enough, because it was on when I came back to it a half hour or so later. It was hot enough that handling it with bare hands was pretty uncomfortable. I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be an issue in normal usage, but it's still a little worrying.
2) The waterproofness of the light is relatively impressive, given that the package only claims it to be water resistant.As I'd read that the LEDs and circuitry are potted in epoxy, I was willing to test it out by throwing it in a swimming pool (about 9'-10' deep) . It continued to run quite happily while submerged. When I retrieved it, there were a few drops of water in the threads and the bottom of the battery chamber. So, while obviously not a dive light, I'd imagine it would stand up to most water-related abuse it's likely to encounter in most other walks of life.
Has anyone with the normal-power version noted the heat issue? I suppose it's not entirely a bad thing, as at least it indicates there's good thermal contact between the LEDs and the body. Still, if the body is getting too hot to comfortably hold, I worry about what the junction temperature inside the LEDs must be like.
