Originally Posted by
gecho
For lights I wanted something with a ridiculously long runtime for brevets. I started with 1000 lumen Dinotte XML-3, then bought a newer one that is 2100 lumen, then sent the first one back for an upgrade to 2500. The newest one should run at about 700 lumens for 13 hours on a 6 cell battery.
Impressive run time, best my 2000 lumen light will do is 6 hours at 700, I can run it off a pack but that's just more batteries. For 10hrs I'd have to drop to 500 lumen and pick between narrow or wide beam but not both so less than ideal.