A company in Grants Pass, Ore., is offering the public what could be the world’s ultimate flashlight. Originally produced for law enforcement personnel, firefighters and other first responders, AE Xenide’s High Intensity Discharge Personal Searchlight is said to possess 10 times the lumen output of conventional flashlights. The compact flashlight, which produces a beam of […]

Grants Pass, OR – March 24, 2008 – AE LIGHT announces its Xenide® model AEX20(TM) HID Personal Searchlight, has passed initial explosion proof testing and is now certified for safe operation in Class 1, Division 1, Groups, A, B, C, & D environments (all gases). Testing is ongoing for Groups E, F, & G (Dusts). […]

LED flashlights can easily outperform their incandescent counterparts, but to really light up the night you need to use the same type of high-intensity lamps used in car headlights. But according to Popular Science, in order to get one into a handheld flashlight the designers of the Xenide had to shield the on-off switch “so […]