Halfords 1 Million Candlepower LED Spotlight €8.00

Esel

Looks like a misprice? Maybe not, but it is £10 on halfords.com

http://www.halfords.ie/car-seats-travel-equipment/camping-caravanning/torches-lanterns-tent-lights/halfords-1-million-candlepower-led-spotlight

Can use either D or AA batteries.

1 million candlepower (candelas) equates to

100 lux at 100 metres,
200 lux at 70 metres,
400 lux at 50 metres,
1000 lux at c. 32 metres,
2000 lux at c. 23 metres,
5000 lux at c. 14 metres,
10000 lux at 10 metres.

antodeco

Reserved two there. Always great for keeping in the boot if the car or going camping!

Esel

antodeco wrote: »

Always great for keeping in the boot of the car or going camping!

Remember to never look it in the eye - unless you are wearing a welder's mask, because blinking won't make any difference for a good while after that. :eek:

aw

Couldn't help but think of Rhod Gilbert.

bikerboy_ie

These were going for a fiver in Halfords about a year ago.

TheBigGreen

Just reserved one. Also have a Group Scheme 10% voucher which is alway handy when buying a Halfords.

Marhay70

Remember getting something similar a few years ago. Brilliant light but took about twelve hours to charge for twenty minutes work. Are these the same?

Marhay70

Marhay70 wrote: »

Remember getting something similar a few years ago. Brilliant light but took about twelve hours to charge for twenty minutes work. Are these the same?

Sorry, I really need to read things properly, I see it takes batteries.

Gryzor

Marhay70 wrote: »

Remember getting something similar a few years ago. Brilliant light but took about twelve hours to charge for twenty minutes work. Are these the same?

This is LED, not Halogen like the ones a few years ago...

Bright LED white light
40 hours of runtime from 4x D batteries
8 hours of runtime from 4x AA

bogman

Build quality is terrible, at least mine is, on/off switch jamming as is the battery cover, has anyone else used theirs?

flids.utd

Yeah I had to screw off the back housing and file the sides of the torch body just so the battery cartridge could slide in and out, functional now , just about!

Gone Drinking

aw wrote: »

Couldn't help but think of Rhod Gilbert.

EXACTLY what I thought of when I saw the thread :pac:

Roberto5

I got this last year in Halfords.
I found it did not work on D batteries. I returned it. Halfords checked 3 or four others on display and none worked on D batteries. They said they would remove them from display as there was obviously an issue with them.
I returned 3 days later and they were still on display.
Something tells me that these still have this issue with D batteries.
I would advise all you buyers to check this.

dingding

Got one and working fine. The button cycles through off d battery and aa battery. It comes with aa batteries.

Looks ok for the price.

Esel

Roberto5 wrote: »

I got this last year in Halfords.
I found it did not work on D batteries. I returned it. Halfords checked 3 or four others on display and none worked on D batteries. They said they would remove them from display as there was obviously an issue with them.
I returned 3 days later and they were still on display.
Something tells me that these still have this issue with D batteries.
I would advise all you buyers to check this.

The leaflet says not to use AA and D batteries at the same time. Could this have been the problem?

3W LED in these, not as bright/powerful as I expected. Still OK...

dingding

I have both in at the same time and no problem. you can switch between them with the on / off switch.

CreepingDeath

Esel wrote: »

3W LED in these, not as bright/powerful as I expected. Still OK...

Yeah, "spotlight" was right.

It illuminates one very small bright spot about twice the width of a tennis ball but very dim outside of that.
It didn't exactly light up my back garden like an aircraft landing light as I was expecting with the "1,000,000" candle power !