Streamlight 71500 JR C4 LED Flashlight, Black

by Streamlight

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

The Streamlight JR C4 LED Flashlight is an ultra-compact, lightweight flashlight features the latest in power C4 LED technology. New C4 premium C4 LED technology produces 2 to 3 times the output of previous C4 LEDs. Packaged with a black nylon flapless holster.

Product Description

The Streamlight Jr.® Luxeon® LED flashlight is ultra-compact and lightweight with a tough machined aluminum construction that's water and shock resistant. The 50,000-hour Luxeon LED is maintenance free, and a push-button tail cap provides easy operation.

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 7 x 1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0002IO2A4
• Item model number: 71500
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #12,861 in Home Improvement (See Top 100 in Home Improvement)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bright + small = good!, January 18, 2006

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Brother J (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Streamlight 71500 JR C4 LED Flashlight, Black (Tools & Home Improvement)

If you've seen older LED flashlights you may be skeptical -- and rightly so, but the new Luxeon LEDs are different:

Believe it or not, this little light is almost as bright as a full sized MagLite 3-D cell, and it stays that way for 4 hours. It's like having a big maglite in a mini-mag body.

How is this possible? It uses a 1-watt Luxeon LED driven by a semi-regulated power supply, so unlike a lot of lights that start out bright and end up dim, this little light puts out a nearly constant beam for 4 hours. Best of all, it runs on inexpensive and easily available AA cells.

Check www.flashlightreviews.com for more info.

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars C4 version brighter, but beam is less even, October 18, 2008

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Kar Wai Ng (Toronto, Ontario CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Streamlight 71500 JR C4 LED Flashlight, Black (Tools & Home Improvement)

Streamlight's Jr. Flashlight is now in its third generation, with a brighter 'C4' LED (actually from Cree) inside rated at 55 lumens. The flashlight is visibly brighter than the previous two generations, both of which had a Luxeon LED (1st Gen rated at 30 lumens, 2nd Gen rated at 27 lumens but longer runtime than the 1st gen.)

The downside of this new 'C4' version is that it no longer retains the plastic collimating lens of the previous two generations, which was responsible for creating an evenly illuminated beam (by 'even' I mean a bright hotspot in the middle gradually tapering off to sidespill.) The optics for this third generation are much different; instead of a collimating lens there's a conical silver reflector which produces a more unevenly lit beam. The illumination is ringed, with brighter and darker regions, though definitely not as 'ringy' as the classic Mini Maglite. The unevenness is somewhat remedied by cutting out a small circle of light diffusion gel and inserting it into the reflector so it sits behind the front plastic lens, blending the slight unevenness together into a smoother beam. However, the collimating lens of the previous versions was simply better and I cannot imagine what possible logical reason was responsible for the switch to a reflector (a plastic polycarbonate lens vs. plastic aluminized reflector couldn't possibly be a significant difference in manufacturing cost...) Also, to accommodate the conical reflector in the front section of the flashlight, the new C4 version is actually longer than its prior length of 6.5", despite what the specs say: it's actually about 6 7/8" from front to the tip of the clickswitch.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great for Railroad Work!, March 8, 2006

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Robert T. Mccarthy (UPRR, Omaha, NE.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Streamlight 71500 JR C4 LED Flashlight, Black (Tools & Home Improvement)

As an engineer, this light is GREAT for inspections or just to keep on the control stand! It seems to be a long lasting light source, and easy to carry in your back pocket.

Give this one a try.