On Sat, 10 Feb 2007, Mitch Haley wrote: > Were they underdriven? If you can find a cheap source for Luxeon Stars > (I see aluminum flashlights with 1W Luxeons for $18, so they must be > selling for well under $10 each now) you'll have all the lumens you > could possibly want (30-50 lumens per emitter). I bought one of the > cheap Dorcy lights (about a $18 item at W-mart) and it's not far shy of > a 2 or 3 cell Maglight. I believe you can now get a Maglight with 3W > Luxeon for about $30. > Mitch.
My experience is that lightbulbs have a omnidirectional radiation pattern, where LED's have a pretty narrow cone of illumination (between 15 and 30 degrees. MAYBE 45.), and the light pipes are not straight ahead of where the bulb sits.... -j.
