Originally Posted by
john bono
Meh. According to what I read, the emitter is running at 22W, and putting out something like 60 Lumens/watt. I think the Cree xre in the q5 bin is in the neighborhood of 100lm/watt. Sure, the light will be a smaller package than a multi-led cree light, but the cree will get the same output and runtime from a much smaller battery.
Yeah, it was only after my original post that I noticed it was running on 18V (!). HID remains king for now, IMO.