LED versus regular flashlight bulb...more strudy?

Let's be specific OK?

In a flashlight situation, an LED sensitivity is just not an issue. That is unless you manage to load it with very wrong cells. And as those wrong cells would be WAY more expensive, I don't see this as much of a risk.

Damage from a single drop is not much of an issue for either if they are cold. But, put the heat on an incandescent and drop it and we had a new ball game that the old light bulb just lost....
That is, unless it was actually an new (not very available these days) Quartz-Iodine bulb. They have much more substantial envelopes (made of fused quartz) and better internal support to operate a higher temperatures.

Now vibration is yet another thing. An LED may suffer if it carried all over **** and gone on the floor of an MB2 or CJ3 Jeep. But, the only reason the others might not is that the vibration might cause the connections to be buffed clean. This is like that flashlight that you have to turn on and shake.

That is my take on it from years of carrying a flash light that I might have to depend on at any given moment.

Matt

It is a toss up. If you're prone to dropping things or banging them around, neither technology is indestructible. The LED flashlight has electronics that can be damaged by heat / thermal stress, impact and vibration. The hot wire bulb has a hot wire that can be damaged by impact and vibration but not much else.

Hi,

There are 50 solder points on an led bulb. That may have an effect due to vibration. I have one that flashes one led of about 30 on and off. It is highly annoying. I wish it would burn out--but no such luck!

LED is much sturdier than incandescent bulbs. They are solid state, no filament, which is the delicate part. However, they are sensitive to voltage. Too much and they fry. Good units are equiped with a voltage regulator to prevent voltage issues though.