Dorcy 3-watt

Dorcy 3-watt Super LED 3 AAA Aluminum Technology Flashlight

Sears item #03493904000 Mfr. model #41-4275

Designed with the brightest Luxeon LED available from Lumileds lighting. This powerful flashlight delivers a beam that is 10 times brighter than aregular LED. Never replace the bulb, lifetime LED warranty. Sturdy aluminum alloy construction. Measures 5-1/2 in. long. Includes three AAA alkaline batteries. Learn more

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i've never seen this one before.... dorcy never updates their cheesy site....

Selling a 3-watt light that requires 3 high-resistance AAA cells is playing the consumer for a sucker. Runtime goes heads south, while cost per minute heads north. It's sad that Dorcy is joining the cynical eBay sellers who play this game.

I can't say I think the price of Dorcy's is worth their (lack of quality) my opinion says. For example, when Target selled Dorcy, they wanted $49 for the 2C, and something like $16.99 for the 2AA, and both of these lights I feel were well below average in quality. A 2AA Maglite can be bought for under $10 at Target, and I feel has much better build quality (the poor beam can always be fixed with aftermarket drop-ins). While I have a few Dorcy lights, I can't say I'd be willing to get more, at least until I see the quality come up. There are so many other quality Lux-3 lights out there...except unfortunately none I know of in AA (most seem to be in 123)...

yea that price is a little crazy, just like coast lights...

Hmmm, the circumferentially notched bezel reminds me of the Nuwai - as well as a multitude of other chi-lites on ebay...

40 bucks. Wonder if you can go better putting the 3 wat thing in a 1 watt light?

ouch...my RogueSoul is direct drive, but I stick NiMhs in there (well NiCds, my NiHms are in my walkman)

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Paul_in_Maryland said:
Selling a 3-watt light that requires 3 high-resistance AAA cells is playing the consumer for a sucker. Runtime goes heads south, while cost per minute heads north. It's sad that Dorcy is joining the cynical eBay sellers who play this game.

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I couldn't agree more. Running a 1 watter on 3XAAA is bad enough as far as run-time is concerned (the original Dorcy 1 watter that runs on 3XAAA gets MISERABLE run-time)...on a LuxIII, I assume the run-time would be PATHETIC! There's been a lot of nicely designed LuxIII lights out there lately...unfortunately, the bulk of them are running off of 3XAAA, and for that reason alone I won't touch them. YMMV...

PJD

Don't the 3AA Gerber LX 3.0 and TX 3.0 use the Luxeon III?

The newest Aitec Collimators ($40 and $50) use Luxeon IIIs in 3AA or 3C bodies. You can find reviews of their Luxeon 1 models at LEDMuseum, Torch Reviews, and (I think) Flashlight Reviews. See my recent thread ("Aitec 3W, 3-cell 75 lumen Luxeons: Any experience?") at http://www.candlepowerforums.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=964046&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=7&fpart=1.