Mag-Lite SP2203H 2-AA Cell Mini LED Flashlight with Holster, Red
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Product Details
Manufacturer: MAGLITEModel: SP2203H
Color: Red
Product features:
- Uses 3 Watt LED
- Powerful focusing beam
- Multi-mode switch
- Candle mode
- Durable and reliable
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of Mag-Lite SP2203H 2-AA Cell Mini LED Flashlight with Holster, Red
Customer Review: Very, Very Average
Summary: 3 Stars
When I first got this thing a couple of years ago, I thought I had found Nirvana. Wrong.
It uses 2 AA batteries, is 6 ½ inches long, comes in a nifty pouch with belt loop, and sort of resembles a Cuban cigar. Twist the head and you get light; better, it focuses like its larger siblings. It gives you as much light as a 2D incandescent version, and this aspect won me over at first. If you want one of those powerful LED flashlights in a small package, this is it. But be careful: you can get a powerful, blinding light Xenon 4-D cell lantern for half the price of this beauty. Are you sure that the small size is worth the extra $$$?
This is what an LED flashlight should be: tough, durable, convenient, versatile, small, lightweight, with super-bright light. Here, you will get traditional Maglite quality. A solid piece of machined aluminum and an LED bulb that will never burn out. You can expect a solid lifetime of good use and abuse. So, outside of the occasional battery change, you will be able to hand this down to your grandchildren; assuming, of course, that a `friend' does not `accidentally' borrow it or you lose it.
The more I compared it to other commercial offerings, the less delighted I became. It is rated at 3 watts; pet peeve: Lumileds makes these high power LED's, and they do not categorize their LED's as such. I presume that the manufacturer is implying that the LED is a Luxeon 3. Problem is, this LED is, as I understand it, simply a `Luxeon I' (i.e. `1 watt') pick out. Indeed, when we compared it to a number of other `Luxeon I' flashlights both more and less expensive, the Maglite was no better or worse than its competitors. I came to see that it was no more than a mediocre high-power LED flashlight.
The most troublesome aspect of this flashlight is its behavior when your batteries get weak. It does not give you any warning or get visibly dimmer to give you a heads-up. When the batteries give out, the light simply goes out, POINK. No warning, no clue. This alone should disqualify it as a serious contender for your arsenal of emergency, go-to flashlights.
This flashlight has several other problems. It is a little big to be something you can stick into your pants pocket on a daily basis (but remember the dandy nylon sheath with a belt loop). It does give powerful light, but this sucks out the battery juice real fast; the package says nothing, but it is unlikely that you will get much more than a couple hours of light. It has a feature where you can adjust the light beam from focused to diffuse light, but it is pretty lame (the light is a hot spot in the middle with a rather large halo typical of 4D lanterns; the adjustment just extinguishes the hot spot). You can also remove the head assembly entirely for a `candle' mode; this does give good area light, but you cannot look directly at the light bulb, so it cannot really double as a lantern. It does not have a dual drain feature; it would be nice to have a switch that can give much reduced light but give much longer battery life, so this thing is not much use as an emergency tool.
There is nothing about this flashlight that makes it any better than dozens of competitors. The only advantage this one has is weather resistance due to a couple of O-rings. I am not terribly impressed by this flashlight (except for the cool pouch), and suggest that you do a little research and try to find a better candidate. For example, for about the same $$$, you can get a maglite 4D flashlight and the optional xenon bulb. If you can deal with the larger size, it will give you several times more light.
Edit
I use this light to regularly discharge NiCd's 700 mAH from a power failure light. I get about 2 hours. Doing the math, new alkalines should, at least in theory, give you about 7 hours.
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