what is your opinion/insight on flashlights with multiple LEDs vs just one single crazy powerful CREE/CREE-like LED chip?

any tangible benefits one vs the other?

@timsandtoms ?

Same shit different approach

Just depends on the light

At a certain point pushing more lumens from an LED becomes less efficient than another LED, but that just depends

Oh, TUP, the Nitecore TUP was the other missing one. I've got a few cheapo ones from clearance at work too, but they're not noteworthy for specs, only for value.

very interdasting

@timsandtoms I ordered the more expensive 'V6-10000LM' variant of this torch https://www.aliexpress.com/item/ur_mums_flashlight/32845642876.html

I assume all the lumen numbers they quote are bullshit, but do you think I made the right choice?

as you said, "pushing more lumens from an LED becomes less efficient than another LED"

https://www.reddit.com/comments/454405

If the build quality isn't garbage, it's not the worst thing ever. If it's your first foray into modern LEDs, you'll be happy.

But I think even 1,000lm is optimistic

is there anything brighter in that size form factor?

Convoy S2+ is a crowd favorite

What did you end up paying for this?

£6.55

($8.64 USD)

Convoy is gonna be at least probably $15, and won't be a "zoomie", which is good and bad.

I need it to be a zoomie

I actually have a Convoy, but I chose a very warm light colour for it

I use that one indoors

People shit on zoomies, ones where you can adjust the focus, because more moving stuff means less waterproofing, and they're relatively inefficient, but if you like em they aren't awful

pfft, waterproof flashlights, as-if water would significantly effect such a simple circuit anyway

It's not the LED you're worried about.

you're right... can we please pour water in all our switches for extra working

It's the small bomb the cell turns into, or the microcontroller that controls it.

Most good lights aren't mechanical nowadays

resistance to great in water to explode the battery

a water short-circuit is very weak

unless you're working with high voltage

@timsandtoms what is the best zoomie?

Or there's anything in the water to act as an electrolyte

I dunno. I don't have any interest in zoomies. Ask /r/flashlight

Why do you need zoomie?

so when I hear a noise outside at night, I can see all the way the to end of my back yard and my neighbor's back yard, from my bedroom window

Right. So needs range. Why zoomie?

because only a zoomie can effectively do that..

Nope

unfocused light dissipates