Originally Posted by
stryper
For one it's the most commonly used bulb in high powered LEDs, a CREE 5w.
The failures have nothing to do with the LED "bulb".
They fail because of poor regulator choice/design, inadequate head sinking, and poor thermal protection on the battery packs. These are all things that tend to happen with cut-rate engineering, and in combination can pretty easily result in damaging the battery packs, and fire.
I never said don't use cheap Chinese stuff. I still use my MagicShine. I use DealExtreme blinky lights.
All I said is I wouldn't strap a bargain basement Chinese battery pack to my head, and then try to pull a few watts out of it.