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I'm surprised no one mentioned cheap chinese lights. The LEDs are mostly the same as far as I know, so it shouldn't matter too much. I have one of those headla

I'm surprised no one mentioned cheap chinese lights. The LEDs are mostly the same as far as I know, so it shouldn't matter too much. I have one of those headlamps, and it's pretty good for the price: http://www.dx.com/p/focus-adjustable-cree-q3-3-mode-white-led-headlamp-1-x-18650-94848#.VQjV3Y7F_QM http://www.dx.com/p/focus-adjustable-cree-q3-3-mode-white-le... There's a plethora of variations it's a lot of fun to pick the perfect feature set.

rasz_pl 12y ago
The leds might look the same, have same markings and be sold with same data points, but they most certainly are not :) Cheap Chinese flashlight LEDs use throwaway wafer offcuts encapsulated by fly by night operations/off the clock in real factories or rebranded third parties (fakes). Its the same deal as cheap SD cards using third grade defective NAND Flash with controllers taking care to bypass bad regions. They are good enough, but not nearly as good as the first grade stuff sold at a premium.
- gaius 12y ago
  Don't even get me started on knock-off fake dive torches.