Mag-Lite SH33DCW6J, An Upgrade Worthy of a..
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An Upgrade Worthy of a Maglite
I am very pleased with this LED upgrade. The light output is significantly brighter than the standard krypton bulb and is on par or better than the Xenon “Mag-num” bulbs. In fact, I’ve found the output to be on par with the 6D Maglite with a krypton bulb. I’ve also read the 3D cell updgrade LED gives the biggest bang for the buck, even surpassing the 4D for brightness. Another benefit is this is a “drop-in” replacement and maintains the same focusing characteristics of a regular bulb.
I estimate the batteries last twice as long as with the standard bulb, but I don’t have empirical evidence to back that up. Unfortunately, Maglite doesn’t supply the wattage of their incadescent bulbs, which makes direct comparisons harder to make.
If you own a Maglite, I recommend this upgrade. It is a siginificant improvement over the regular bulbs and certainly gives its money’s worth of light. The reason I gave it four rather than five stars is because of issues with the heat sink that may diminish light intensity, as well as that the wide angle focus still has the characteristic black hole in the center. The last point may have to do with the reflector, which is not optimized for LEDs (on the regular one).
One final note. This upgrade does NOT work with rechargeable batteries. The bulb expects 1.4-1.5 volts from each battery to work, where rechargeables tend to only give 1.2 volts per cell. Hopefully Mag with come up with a voltage controlled version that will allow for this.
Update (2/8/2012):
The featured review for this product, Mag-Lite SH33DCW6J 3-Watt LED 3-C/D Cell Flashlight Upgrade Module Tools & Hardware, was written by Casey Cooper.
The average rating for this item is out of 5 stars, according to 3 reviews.
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Posted on: June 3, 2010
Filed under: Reviews
Reviews (3)
Casey Cooper
April 28th, 2010 at 10:38 pm
An Upgrade Worthy of a Maglite
Rated 4 stars.
G. Camann
May 9th, 2010 at 8:28 am
Well worth the money
I first bought the Nite-Ize LED Upgrade for D cell maglites, but it hardly puts out any light. It’s pretty dim but will literally run for a week at that same dimness, it has it’s purpose and was half the cost of this. It is useful for maneuvering around a dark house (like a nitelite), but you can’t really “see” anything well enough to do work.
I finally forked over the money this 3 Watt LED upgrade at Mega-Lo-Mart and boy am I impressed. According to flashlightreviews website it’s brighter than the stock bulb and will maintain that brightness for 48 hours! I have to agree, my batteries were at about 50% (judging by the dim beam of the conventional bulb) i put the LED in and my maglite has never been brighter, and the beam is still focusable, I even think the beam geometry is better with the LED than the stock bulb. I’m totally impressed. Hopefully it will pay for itself in batteries.
I’ve found specs that claim this throws 7500 (86.60) LUX and has an overall outputs of 4750 (47.50) LUMENS. (whatever that means)
smgsmc
May 18th, 2010 at 5:46 am
Don’t buy unless you get a great price
You can get a new complete second-generation LED Maglite for about $ 25. So it makes no sense to $ 20 for a first-generation upgrade module has to pay. If you pick an upgrade module may, for cheap, but by all means do. These upgrade modules are designed as drop-in replacement for standard incandescent light bulbs in Maglite. The second generation lights have been modified specifically for LEDs, however, and have a better performance: (1) You have an improved LED. (2) The reflector dish has been redesigned. (3) heat sink has been improved. The LED can not be replaced in the second generation Maglite.
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