"Shedding Some Light" on Lighting Technologies

When it comes to lighting technology, there's a new Sheriff in town. It comes in the form of high power, energy efficient, durable, and digitally-regulated LEDs. This technology has revolutionized portable lighting technologies and will continue to do so. Really even talking about this lighting creates a snapshot in time and ephemeral data point as the mentioned lights, like the excellent Fenix L2D Q5, will eventually be eclipsed. But rest assured that even at this current technological point, these lights can revolutionize your systems. Whether you're a cop, civilian sheepdog, soldier, professional or private pilot, prepared homeowner, mountain biker, or medical professional, I think a reliable and bright light is paramount to your system. Today's LED flashlights, like the L2D 2AA version shown, has impressive brightness levels, multi-mode technology, incredible versatility, and offer all of this in compact and lightweight 3.2 ounce form factors. As mentioned in the vid, expect such a light to effectively replace a lantern, headlamp, bike light, traffic wand, and pen light. They can do it all those tasks at a reasonably cost and do so reliably year after year. Not one to adopt technology just for its current "coolness," magazine or forum popularity, an item has to prove itself as "system changing" for it to be attractive to me. When we "shed some light" on the new LED lighting products, they indeed do just that.

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[nickbubblehead]

I now own a Fenix TK10, TK20, MC10, and a MC10. I work goverment, Diplomatic Security to be exact. Many agents use Surefire only because they have been around awhile and have high quality, but many are switching to Fenix as the name is spreading around. I use Fenix exclusivley in the work that I do as they amazingly rugged and functional, but what is truly amazing is the price. Sorry Surefire, your monopoly days are over.

[jefallijay]

best thing you can do, is blind the enemy with a fenix, and then knock there ass out with a big mag light, lol.

[cheeman150]

should i dump my old surefire e2e xenon? , i think not especially if they were expensive

[Assumez]

@captncandycorn quark aa2

[SuperRip7]

Xenon lights are still great.

[SparkDischarge]

@captncandycorn Because an average person would use an alkaline AA. Alkaline AA are limited in their power ability, roughly 0.5 watt of nice sustained power, and that is at normal temperatures, 50-100F.

If you put 0.5 watt into the most advanced LED, U2 bin xm-l, that would only be 75 lumens, and you'd be drawing more than 0.5 watt from the cell, because of circuit overhead.

Energizer more/less has a monopoly on lithium AAs in the US, so compare the online price of cr123 and they are the winner.

[captncandycorn]

Nutnfancy! Hey bud, I'm looking for a weapon light, but don't want to shell out hundreds of bucks. I just want a good, affordable AA light that will be reliable on a long gun. I already have a LD20 but it seems all the light mounts are for 1 inch barrels and all the weapons lights are cr123a. I don't get why a standard AA flashlight is almost taboo as a weapon light, given the technology you so eloquently illustrated here. Any suggestions? 

[SparkDischarge]

@mafundzalo No, but why should it. One is a 3-cell, the other is a 2-cell.

With two Energizer lithium primary AA's, one should get at least 48 hours on low with L2D (or LD20 successors)

[leftyaa12]

anyone have any suggestions reguarding a fair priced tactical light for an ar 15? im new to lights. too many to choose from. thanks

[gaozhi2007]

This was the first Nutnfancy review I ever saw almost a year ago. Great stuff. I would like to encourage people to also look at 4sevens flashlights. You can check out some of Nutn's reviews of those as well.

[Shrimpgoldfish]

5:26 was a beautiful moment.

[mafundzalo]

dude the 3d maglite led has a burn time of 72 hours... dont think the l2d can touch that