While I was looking up flashlights and flashlight standards earlier (here and here), I found a couple of sites which have more information about flashlights and ratings.
Both seem to focus on the 2009 version of the flashlight standard. I found both to be interesting. The first is Flashlight Wiki.
- Flashlight Wiki – A wiki about flashlights. Here’s their About page. (Anyone can create a wiki, here’s one page about how to create a wiki.)
- Flashlight Wiki’s page about ANSI-NEMA FL-1 – Which means, as far as I can tell, it’s about the 2009 version and not the newer PLATO version.
And there is also LED Resource.
- LED Resource – LED stands for Light Emitting Diode. LED Resource is a site about LEDs. Here’s their About page.
- LED Resource’s page about ANSI FL-1 – Again, this appears to be about the 2009 standard, not the $500 PLATO updated version.
I have a relative who swears the new LED flashlights which use sets of AAA batteries last for a shorter amount of time than older flashlights with incandescent bulbs and C or D batteries. I haven’t done any testing on that. And I don’t know of anyone else who has done testing on this. If I find someone who did, I’ll post about it.