More like scraping the coating off of a soft white incandescent.
Can't wait to have some of these flashlights. I use the LED flashlights now. So much light for such a little bulb.
So, the LED flashlights are good? I’ve seen maglite advertising them, but didn’t know how good they are.
It appears that light output is now limited by the maximum temperature the LED chip can stand, which in turn is controlled by how much heat the mounting can pull away. A glance at the spec sheet from Cree for a LED used in flashlights (the X-Lamp XR-E) shows the max junction temp of 150 deg C is reached at 1000 ma.
http://www.cree.com/products/pdf/XLamp7090XR-E.pdf
I wounded a deer mid afternoon. We were tracking the blood trail as it was running a little, then stopping. It got dark while we were on the trail. I tried using a LED flashlight to track the wounded deer. The LED light would not show up the blood trail compared to the conventional flashlight that would show the blood trail clearly so we could continue tracking.
The LED light is great. But I don’t like the color band and I believe the LED light changes the light spectrum unnaturally. At least for my eyes, LED lighting is unsettling and not for every instance.