Dorcy 41-4291

The Dorcy 41-4291 is more commonly known as the Dorcy 3W lantern. It's a lantern-style light, with a handle, stand, and included 4D>lantern adapter. Being a lantern, it has room for a huge reflector, which makes for appropriately huge throw from the side-emitting Luxeon III. However, the beam is absolutely horrid, with wiggly swirls and splotches. Fortunately, they pretty much disappear when you use this light on long-distance targets. The battery life is simply amazing, as well, being a resistored direct drive. The resistor is pretty big, but other than that, I don't know much about it.

This form factor is worlds better than the standard inline format popularized by Mag Instruments. It's more compact, it has a nice carry handle, and the stand is great for putting light where you want it.

Below is the ENORMOUS REFLECTOR OF DOOM!

Okay, it doesn't quite inspire doom, but it's pretty big.

This is a really handy light, with decent output, great runtime, and a wonderful form factor.

However...

I was recently comparing this light to other, newly acquired flashlights, and the more I tested, the bigger the difference seemed to get. I eventually realized that this light was actually getting really dim. Fortunately, I had previously measured its power consumption as:

Pulling 0.9A at 4.2V, for 3.78W,

So I was quite irked when I measured my strangely dim flashlight and found that it pulled a mere 0.05A at 6V (0.3W)! I was suggested the theory that it cooked itself because of the plastic mount it sits on (zero heatsinking), but I really don't know what's causing it. I'm thinking of just giving Dorcy a call to get it fixed up. Hopefully, it's a one-time problem and the replacement will provide years of good service. For now though, I can't recommend this light until it's working properly again.