Craftsman 3 D 1 watt tool light

http://www.sears.com/sr/javasr/product.do?BV_UseBVCookie=Yes&vertical=TOOL&pid=03493675000

Has anyone bought on of these yet? It looks like a good bet.

Craftsman flashlights are usually rebranded Dorcys. The exterior looks different, but the guts should be the same as the Dorcy Luxeon 3-D.

http://www.flashlightreviews.com/reviews/dorcy_luxeon3d.htm

I noticed one difference with the craftsman light. The lense has some kind of weird looking bubble in the center and the reflector isn't very deep. The bubble looks like a magnifier from what I can remember.


I got one of those Dorcy catalogs on CD-R and there are many Craftsman lights in the catalog.

That's odd.

This Craftsman light has that type of lens:

http://www.sears.com/sr/javasr/prod...pid=03493668000&subcat=Flashlights+&+Lanterns

The body is a variation of Dorcy's 4AA Turtlelight. Instead of a single bulb, it has one central 5mm white LED (which is actually potted in a PR base), and 4 additional LEDs arranged peripherally. The bubble in the lens is to create a concentrated spot when the central LED is on. (It looks sort of like the Inova X1's spot)

There are 3 modes: central LED on/peripheral LEDs off = pure spot/no flood, central LED off/peripheral LEDs on = flood/no concentrated spot, all LEDS on = spot+flood

I have a couple to use for blackouts, because the runtime is good, and I like the ability to choose low output/long runtime or higher output/shorter runtime. The beam quality stinks, however.

Anyway (getting back to the original topic), the bubble might be an attempt to improve the intensity of the central spot, compensating for the shallow reflector.