Archive for September 19th, 2008

Flashlights was widely used in many fields, such as hike, camping, and outdoor sports. It’s necessary for many people. If you want to buy a new flashlights now, you have many choice. Flashlights can be divided into three types, traditional flashlights(Incandescent), LED flashlights, HID flashlights. HID is less common. So your choice is between traditional flashlights and LED flashlights.

What are main difference of them?

Traditional flashlights use bulbs which contain a heated-up coil of tungsten wire. It gives off light energy with heat. The bulbs are usually filled with argon with Halogen.  In higher quality models, Xenon is also used.  LED flashlights use light-emitting diodes (LEDs) instead of Traditional light bulbs. LED is the one which bring so many advantages.

Advantages of LED Flashlights
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