3 watt 3AAA lights on ebay, 2 for $34 shipped. ???

PocketBeam

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Any reviews or feelings about this light. This seems light a amazing deal. Maybe as good as the Nuwai Q-III??? What do you think, Luxeon? Current amps? Run time, brightness, etc. Any one have oen for comparisons?

The guy has lots of them and he sells other lights and even a single light, 3 watt for $22 shipped.

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The street price of these lights are $7 in Hong Kong. It is using some Taiwan made cone Lux III and is quite bright and white when new. I bought two a week ago and one of them went dead already while the other one is losing its brightness to less than 50%. My conclusion: Don't waste your money.
 

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Re: 3 watt 3AAA lights on ebay, 2 for $34 shipped.

Thanks for the advice. I almost bid on this. Whew.

Wow, 50%, that is a lot. Must be bad LED design or severly over driven.
 

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Re: 3 watt 3AAA lights on ebay, 2 for $34 shipped.

they are direct-drive so i think is safer use 3 ni-mh cells for 3,6v

3 fresh alkaline are 4,5v... too high for the poor led

of course for this price you can't find a lux-III TWOJ /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 

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Re: 3 watt 3AAA lights on ebay, 2 for $34 shipped.

actually it is the other way around, david

NimH can deliver more current with less drop in the voltage than alkaline. Alkaline has a lot higher internal resistance that the resistance alone will decrease the current to a lower level than NiMH's.
 

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Re: 3 watt 3AAA lights on ebay, 2 for $34 shipped.

these look like the bigger brother of the sreamlight keymate.
 

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Re: 3 watt 3AAA lights on ebay, 2 for $34 shipped.

the only thing IMHO that these Chinese light are good for is donors. The bowling pins we got through Haveblue for instance, were rather mediocre electronics-wise, but they were great donors. Heavy, place for a circuit board, heat-sink AND optics!! -- I just finished a very slick mod on one (good thing I bought 4 of them!!) -- plusr they look cool. $12-13 for a great host is not too bad (wheras $17 seems a bit high -- unless it was REALLY cool!). Keep us posted on these though, I'm always looking for a good body!
 

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Re: 3 watt 3AAA lights on ebay, 2 for $34 shipped.

So, the china luxeon flashlight will come with clone luxeon or not? If then I think the luxeon light or brightness is seem to be poor.

If the china luxeon flashlight use real luxeon, we cann't know about BINS that thay used.
 
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