[Chao]

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Hi, I recently bought this Brinkmann 3W Cree LED, 3xAAA light, it’s not expensive ($17 USD), people in the US can find it at Target store .


Because this light uses plastic material, so it’s not heavy, the most important feature of this light is the “Scroll switch”, you just need scroll the switch to turn flashlight on and for brighter light from 0.5W to 3W, very easy to operate.


It uses OP reflector and Cree XR-E LED.

This light is bright; I estimated 100 total lumens approximately in beginning, throw is good, lux readings at 1meter are:
Max level
7220 lux (alkaline)
6330 lux (NiMH)

Low level
1640 lux (alkaline)

Show beamshots below (all using alkaline batteries) and compared to Feix L2DQ5 and Led lenser (TT743 :

5m shots


10m shots


Low level 10m beamshot compared to NuwaiQIII


also runtimes:

runtimes with either alkaline or NiMH batteries were performed just as expected.

7/26 updated---

With low level (0.5W I think), I got about 9.5 h nice performance.

I like this cheap light, the bad thing of this light is no water proof, but this doesn’t bother me, I still have a lot of fun with this light