Sorry Ed, missed this. I have a lot of experience with these bulbs and chargers. The 6V recharge system comes with a special bulb, battery and charger. You HAVE to use their bulb with their rechargeable battery. This isn’t a bad thing as it increases output to somewhere around 80-100 Lumens.
The 9V system can use any SF P90 or P91 bulb or you can use their 200 Lumen 9V bulb.
You cannot use the system with LED’s or in the E Series (as you cannot switch the bulbs out).
Grant, you have any comment on the WE bulb durability? I put one in my g/f’s work G2 and she dropped it on shift two or so, shattering the bulb. I switched the OEM (P60?) back in and it has survived a few more drops unscathed.
For my $0.02, the best value going for lumens and runtime are the KL1 head for the e1/e2 and the KL3 on the G2/6P. The runtimes are excellent, and they accomodate the RCR123’s and 17670 cells just fine. I really don’t worry about running out of light on some accident scene somewhere and contact burns are a thing of the past.
Never known one to break. I do have customers that simply turn on their SF lights and the bulbs go. Bulbs are funny things and it is nearly impossible to say from one batch to the next on how they will handle shock and or power.
I wish I could give you a good hard number on battery/bulb lifetime Shivan, but I don’t use’em as much as I used to. Keeping 5 or 6 of them stashed around the house really cut down on how often I went through bulbs and batteries. Best I can say now is that I haven’t seen a significant decrease so far in battery or bulb lifetime.
I agree they’re fairly random. I was disappointed it went out with one good knock, but it was only a $30 experiment for two bulbs. I was trying to cheap out instead of going fully into LED heads.
Grant, in regards to the 6v recharge system I have a question as to how long it takes to get a full charge…will it be an overnight charge or just a couple of hours? Also, how long will a full charge on the battery last me, will it last a full 10 hours on my shift or longer or shorter?
In my experience, the time to charge is short. The initial charge of my 6v was about 2 hours. Since then I have only ran the battery down once. I am very pleased with the product thusfar. I think that I am going to upgrade all of my G2s to this bulb and battery set up.