Hi all,
~Five year flashlight fan and lurker of this website (thank you for everything you've taught me about batteries, voltage, amps, watts and LED's and lumens vs candela vs lux etc etc etc etc etc), but new zebralight owner with my new EDC the SC53c N --- this is genuinely the first EDC I've ever loved after swapping back and forth between an Olight i3t (too limited) and the Wurkkos TS10 (too plasticky, I just can't love it). I like this AA size also because I stick my EDC light in my mouth 20 times a day, just for convenience to have both hands available, and the ridges on this and length / width are just perfect for that.
Anyway, I have seen earlier in this thread that there is some talk about the strobe on zebralights -- I get that it is set at 'true' H1 (or G5 H1) so that's not my question --- however it looks to me like this is a lot less bright than H1. This is with an AA battery, so H1 being ~260 lumens. Strobe looks more in the 50/100 range to me. I first wondered if strobe just looks less because it's on and off so my eyes are 'averaging' or something, but this isn't the case with other lights e.g. on my Acebeam eC35 gen ii the turbo and strobe look about the same. My second thought is if it is ramping up and down and only hits ~260 very briefly or never quite gets there? I know with the Olight i3t plus and i5t that it's hard to get AA / AAA lights to hit those kinds of lumens -- those lights therefore have a very noticeable slow ramp up to ~250 / ~300, which I can't detect on my zebra, but maybe there is a bit of a ramp up which means the strobe doesn't have time to get all the way up to ~260 in between flashes? 🤔
Anyone know anything about this, or has the SC53c N and is willing to have a look and give me your thoughts?
PS. I don't want to come across as some kind of 'strobe' guy haha, I don't really plan on using it, I'm just a bit of an obsessive person so I want to know what's going on / that I don't have a defective light - if it is more like 50 / 100 that's probably actually better as a bike flasher light, my most likely use case.
Thanks!
Stephen