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Why LED's Are Replacing Incandescent Bulbs.

Why TerraLUX LED Light Engines® Intead of Incandescent Bulbs and Plain LEDs.

Flashlight owners can easily upgrade to peak performance levels only available in much more expensive tactical flashlights.

Summary of Advantages

Why LED's Are Replacing Incandescent Bulbs

Incandescent bulbs have been used in flashlights for portable lighting devices powered by batteries for a hundred years. This useful but very old technology has a big disadvantage in that only 5% of the power consumed produces useful light; the remaining 95% produces heat. For this reason alone, light emitting diodes (abbreviated as LEDs or LED bulbs) are replacing incandescent bulbs in all areas of lighting.

Over 20% of the traffic lights in America a today are LEDs and virtually all high mounted brake lights on new autos are LEDs. What drives this technology change are some surprising facts about LED bulbs, which give enormous benefits to users over incandescent bulbs such as standard filament vacuum bulbs or the newer krypton, halogen, or xenon bulbs.

 

1. LEDs use less power thereby saving on batteries up to a hundred times. Instead of having dead batteries in 1 - 2 hours, you have the batteries producing light for 3 - 30 hours, typically.

2. LEDs are virtually indestructible whereas regular flashlight bulbs only operate 10 to 30 hours before they burn out. LEDs are generally rated for a minimum of 10,000 hours or over 1 year to as long as 100,000 hours or 10 years of continuous use, so they are effectively lifetime light sources.

3. LED's can focus their light into a beam without external optics allowing better spot viewing at distances. They can emit a whiter light than incandescent bulbs or in most colors without a colored lens system that absorbs 50% of the light output.

4. LED's can give out low levels of light for extremely long period of time making them perfect for emergency situations when you cannot replace batteries or need 24 hour plus lighting. Most incandescent flashlights go off within an hour or so of continuous use leaving you alone in the dark.

5. LEDs are shock resistant because they lack a fragile, high-temperature filament; also unlike a hot filament they pose no danger of fire or explosion under ordinary circumstances.

Why TerraLUX LED Light Engines® Intead of Incandescent Bulbs and Plain LEDs

TerraLUX has taken LED technology and made it easy to use by making its LED Light Engines as direct 100% replacements for most flashlights and portable lighting devices using incandescent bulbs. In addition, TerraLUX has added a proprietary PowerPush circuit (patents pending) that takes even greater advantage of the raw LED technology giving the benefits of constant light output and greater power extraction from batteries thereby providing light for a longer time than either incandescent bulbs or LEDs by themselves. Incandescent bulbs or LED flashlights without this technology will start getting dimmer as soon as they are turned on. TerraLUX LED Light Engines® give constant light output. All this circuitry fits into a standard bulb base and makes the TerraLUX LED Light Engine® replacements truly intelligent lighting and power saving devices.

TerraLUX LED Light Engines® are the ideal way to upgrade incandescent flashlights because:

1. Your flashlight is upgraded to the latest technology with better lighting for all occasions.

2. You NEVER need buy another bulb because it burned out from usage or dropping your flashlight.

3. Your flashlight is now a perfect emergency lighting device because it will not go dead from breakage or low batteries when you need it most.

4. You save money on batteries and bulb replacements while the land fills save on dead batteries and pollution.

5. You don't have to worry about selecting the right operating voltage as you do with an incandescent bulb; The TerraLUX LED Light Engine® automatically adapts to a wide range of operating voltages.

6. If you own a quality flashlight such as a Maglite® or Mini Maglite®, your investment is preserved, extended and enhanced for a lifetime. If your flashlight breaks, you can remove the TerraLUX LED Light Engine® and use it in another flashlight.

7. You can choose the performance YOU want to have from your flashlight from a low light that runs for days (see TerraLUX SpotMiser and BroadMiser) to a super brilliant spotlight that outshines incandescent bulbs and for a longer time. There are a range of TerraLUX LED Light Engines® to choose from to meet every demanding need of emergency workers, police and fire departments to home and personal use.

Flashlight owners can easily upgrade to peak performance levels only available in much more expensive tactical flashlights.

Flashlight owners now have the opportunity to upgrade their trusted high quality flashlights by adding the latest TerraLUX LED Light Engine® technology as simply and quickly as a normal incandescent bulb replacement.

Many high quality flashlights, such as the popular Maglite® C and D cell units, use standard size incandescent bulbs which can be replaced by the TerraLUX LED Light Engine® series to get Tactical Flashlight performance at a fraction of the purchase cost and operation cost. The Mini Maglite® can also be upgraded with a TerraLUX LED Light Engine® kit (MiniStar2) to achieve tactical flashlight performance as well. TerraLUX LED Light Engines® DO NOT require expensive and short lived Lithium batteries. Many owners of high quality flashlights want a rugged lighting instrument that will not let them down when subjected to sudden shock or falls. The TerraLUX LED Light Engines® extend this mechanical envelop of ruggedness with a virtually indestructible LED Light Engine that lasts for 1 to 10 years if left on continuously. This makes your Maglite®, for example, a truly rugged and unbreakable light source by eliminating the weakest link, which is the incandescent bulb.

Constant Light Output

Another frustrating performance characteristic of incandescent bulbs is that the light intensity decreases dramatically from the moment the light is turned on and does not stop until the batteries are dead. This characteristic makes for constantly deteriorating performance every time the flashlight is turned on. TerraLUX solves this problem for once and for all by employing its proprietary PowerPush circuit (patents pending) in the base of the TerraLUX LED Light Engine® to give users a constant light output for the duration of the batteries.  (See the graph with details under the "Technologists" section)

Wide Range of Performance Options

Performance is major reason people buy high quality flashlights. The TerraLUX LED Light Engine® series of bulb replacements offers a broad choice of performance options ranging from ultra long lasting low light to extremely focused high intensity spot lights.

One Size Fits All

Until now owners of multi-cell flashlights using incandescent bulbs are forced to deal with having to buy replacement bulbs that match the voltage corresponding to the number of cells in the device. Use the wrong bulb and you blow it out. With TerraLUX LED Light Engines® a unique PowerPush proprietary circuit is built into the base of the bulb and it adjusts the power source as needed. This way you only need ONE bulb for all your flashlights regardless of 2, 3 or 4 cell units. Many flashlight owners depend upon their lighting instruments in emergencies, both short term and long term. The TerraLUX LED Light Engine series replacement bulbs turn every incandescent flashlight into a true emergency light. A standard flashlight that would totally burn up 2 D cell batteries in 1 to 2 hours can now be switched over with a TerraLUX LED Light Engine® that yield 4 to 100 hours of light depending on the unit employed.

Perfect For Emergencies with "moon" mode

High intensity TerraLUX LED Light Engines® will not only burn brighter AND longer but when the batteries are nearly exhausted, the "moon" mode circuit will make the light dimmer but still provide basic emergency lighting for several more hours. This happens because of a combination of moon mode operation and the TerraLUX PowerPush circuit that draws ALL remaining power from the batteries. These are the first true "emergency" lighting systems because they will not go dark when needed and battery replacements are not available.

Simple to Install as Replacing the Bulb

All this technology is added to a standard flashlight by simply replacing the incandescent bulb with a TerraLUX LED Light Engine®. The TerraLUX LED Light Engine® installs in a C-cell or D-cell Maglite® as simply as a bulb replacement. Just take out the factory installed incandescent bulb and insert the TerraLUX LED Light Engine as though you were replacing the original bulb. This allows you to use the original bulb if you ever want to because no modifications to your C or D cell flashlights are required.

 

Summary of Advantages:

• Upgrades high quality flashlights (e.g. Maglite® products) into high performing LED flashlights   with near tactical performance.
• Less expensive to purchase than a new LED flashlight
• Less expensive to own because of power management and never any bulb replacements
• Brighter from the start and does not get dimmer like an incandescent bulb - PowerPush regulated output
• Runs on cheaper alkaline batteries; expensive lithium batteries not required.
• Simple to install - easy as replacing the bulb

TerraLUX is not affiliated with Mag Instrument, Inc., which owns the Maglite® and Mini Maglite ® trademarks and the trademark shape, style and overall appearance of the Mini Maglite® flashlight. Mag Instrument's trademarks are here used only to identify the flashlight with which TerraLUX intends its upgrade to work. The TerraLUX LED Light Engines® are not made, endorsed or sponsored by Mag Instruments, Inc.