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I came across the HausBell Cree 7W 300 Lumen Mini LED Flashlight recently on Amazon. For $7, you can get it shipped on Amazon Prime. So curious, I bought one to give it a try.
The flashlight comes in a neat little package. It's a white package that is only a little bigger than the flashlight itself (see photo below).
The flashlight is wrapped in bubble wrap inside the package, but there is nothing else.
The flashlight is small, not much bigger than my finger. Playing around with it, I realized the front lens can zoom in and out as shown in the photos below.
The flashlight had a curved front lens element (see photo below). I didn't know why the lens was curved at first. I thought maybe it has to do with the zooming function. But I found out later, during the lighting test, that it is for light uniformity.
Much like many other tactical flashlights on the market, the HausBell Cree mini LED flashlight has a red power button on the back (see photo below). You use it to toggle it on and off.
The HausBell Cree mini LED flashlight comes with a clip for you to clip the flashlight to your pocket, belt, or other things. You can remove the clip using star-shaped mini precision screwdriver.
The front end and the rear end of the flashlight can be unscrewed (see photo below). It allows you to use an AA alkaline battery or a 14500 rechargeable lithium ion battery.
Based on our "Does Battery Types Effect LED Flashlight Brightness?" article, the 3.6v or 3.7v 14500 battery will produce much higher light intensity than the 1.5v AA alkaline battery.
I didn't have any 14500 lithium ion battery on hand, so I only tested this flash light with AA alkaline battery. The following two photographs shows the light intensity of the following four flashlights from left to right. Reviews for each of these flashlight is elsewhere on this web site. The first photo shows the HausBell Cree mini LED flashlight zoomed out. The second photo shows it zoomed in.
As you can see from the first photo the HausBell Cree 7 W 300 Lumen Mini LED Flashlight is arguably brighter than the Centerpoint and the Enercell flashlight. It is not as bright as the Ozark Trail 200 Lumens Aluminum Flashlight.
We can safely assume that the HausBell Cree mini LED flashlight produces 100 Lumens with a 1.5v AA alkaline battery. A 3.7v 14500 lithium ion battery is 2.47x more powerful than a 1.5v AA alkaline battery. Assuming lumen is linearly proportional to battery voltage, our guess is that this flashlight will produce 246.7 lumen with the 3.7v 14500 lithium ion battery. So it's specification may not be too far fetched, considering that we may be conservative on its 100 lumen output.
In the photo above, we see that the ambient light intensity is significantly less when the light source is focused in a small area. The photo below shows the flashlight zoomed into a small area. You can see the shape of the LED chip.
The photo below shows the flashlight when it's zoomed out to cover a wider area. Notice how the light coverage is uniform from center to edge. You don't see that in many other flashlights. The other three flashlights I mentioned do not have the curved front lens. Therefore, they are brighter in the center and dimmer on the edge.