Friday, May 31, 2013 at 10:57
Sorry Alloy, totally disagree. Its the quality of the Cree, the cree is the little square thing that lights up, companies like Baja design and Great Whites specify to the cree manufacturer the type of cree, hours they want it to last, light intensity and whiteness required!
They will put in an order for say 2000 of these and it can take the Cree manufacturer to produce upto 100s of thousands of this quality cree just to get those perfect 2000 required. The cost of producing the 100s x 1000s is then amortized over the sale of the 2000 to the companies hence a dearer light.
Guess what happens to the not so perfect ones?
Supercheap and cheap lights! Buy one and see how quickly it will lose its brightness and whiteness.
You cannot substitute quality and LEDs are no different its just the general punter is not as educated on LED and Crees as they are so relatively new.
P.S dont start me on Lumens! At this point in time there is no legislated way of testing them. I mean so everyone is measuring the light output at same distance and temperature. but thats a whole other chapter.
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