How many lumens does a stock Mag 3D put out?

wasBlinded

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And that's just briefly before an initial rapid followed by slower steady decline, right?
 

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39 lumens if memory work right, and as people above said a rapid initial decline in output. Its the rapid decline in output that I hate most about using stock Mags.
 

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Also remember that lumens is not a measure of brightness, it is a measure of the "amount" of light.

Your Mag85 will be brighter and put out more lumens than a stock Mag3D.
 

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is there any difference in lumen output/dropoff between alkaline and nimh? I would think output would not drop as fast on nimh but may be initially less bright to start.
 

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The Rapid Drop is because of the Battery Chemistry, if you are using Alkaline or Zinc-Carbon batteries.

I doubt if that drop will be there if we use Ni-MH or Ni-Cd D-Size Batteries.

Also, with the Energizer Lithium D batteries (which are not out yet) i guess, the output will stay there for much much longer duration.

Do we have Comparitive Runtime Graphs with Ni-MH, Ni-CD, Alkaline, Zinc-Carbon batteries for the said 3D Light to verify the said things.
 

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I would think that all of these comments are right, because brightness is proportional to voltage. Alkalines start out around 1.5v and then immediately start dropping in voltage until their dead. Nimh hold a steady 1.2v for most of their run-time before dying, so the brightness would be steady, following along with the voltage. That's how I'd imagine it anyway.
 
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