I agree...good light and decent price. A couple things about trends with lights that you won't read in the gun rags. Here is the problem with strobes, brighter is better, and using LEDs for lights intended for use in a self defense situation or as "tactical" light.
For those who never train at night or in low light in realistic conditions (inside of a home or other enclosed structure) in simulated self defense situations using simunitions won't know this...first of all Strobes do one thing really-really well....they temporarily disrupt the vision of the threat. This is a good thing. But what they also do is the SAME exact thing for the defender. We had a student one time inside of a building shoot (with Simunitions) a plain clothes officer who had a badge visibly displayed. The strobing effect completely blinded the student from being able to see something as important as a badge. Also I've seen the same effect cause people not see wallets, guns, knives and other items. It will blind you as well as the threats or percieved threat. Also Strobes reflect or bounce off of white or light walls and will totally screw up everyone's perspective (you, your partner -everyone). You need enough light to see a threat or non-threat so you can make a sound judgement. What you don't need is something that screws up your perspective and causes you to make poor decisions.
Secondly, LED technology is the wave of the future. BUT, from my extensive experience working inside enclosed structures training with Simunition guns equipped with LED's I've found the wave length is just enough different from Incan to not penetrate through dust, fog/mist (outside) and gun propellant that has discharged in the air from gun fire. Incan lights have a better wave length for punching thru smoke, fog, mist, rain, gunsmoke, dust et al. Granted LEDs are getting brighter (I'll mention something about that in a minute) and better battery life. But the trade off is not worth it in my humble opinion.
Finally, More Lumens - More Better? Not really. Not with a Tactical Light. All you need is ENOUGH light to be able to see a threat's hands and to navigate around. The more or brighter light broadcast from your tactical light only reflects off of white or light surfaces (meaning painted sheetrock and wall board) and this does two things extremely well...first it blinds the defender/you (it is like looking into lighthouse) and secondly it causes a Target Indicator for the threat (they can see where you're at better). Again, we only need enough light to see the area, see any people and see their hands.
Whew, that is a lot...but suffice it to say...over the last 20 years I've really seen the changes and many of them are market and customer driven and not necessarily really tactical driven.
