Mag-Mail arrived today. Mrs Fixer paid Santa-Mag to send me the ML150 LR and LRS. Well naturally I had to open the box and 'ensure' everything checks out. And while she was distracted I took a minute to try each one out for a few seconds.
Impressive.
Think old school Maglite hot spot with 800 lumens instead of 60 like a 3D firing a xenon bulb. I snapped a photo and boxed back up the LRS. I took a photo with the LR but thought I heard Mrs Fixer approaching so the photo turned out blurry. To say they will ID items at a 2 football field distance would not be untrue. Yet there is plenty of spill too.
I'll say more Christmas day once I can charge them the minimum 6 hour initial charge. But both are sweet little 2 and 3 cell ML 50 sized lights with a impressive output.
The LRS on high.
The house with the white van in the photo is at least 600 feet away.
Before
ML150LR pix edit:
Compared to; L to R
-16oz ceranic lined cup, ML150LR, ML300 3 cell, ML25 3 cell, Streamlight Stinger LED, 8 oz coffee cup
The swing set way off in the distance is a dark color about 400 feet away
I ran it a few minutes to see if heat radiated and where. In about a minute the area between the switch and about 1/3 down the head became warm. Definite heat sink technology involved. Twisting from spot to flood only widens the spot. No real change occurs with spill like zoomy lights do. Instead you get the traditional Maglite style changes. I do not see any blue, red, green or yellow in the beam. Just intense whiteness like Streamlight C4 a few years back.
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