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;SF: [[SureFire]] or sometimes [[Solarforce]], two flashlight manufacturers. | ;SF: [[SureFire]] or sometimes [[Solarforce]], two flashlight manufacturers. | ||
;showerhead: a flashlight with a cluster of low-powered LED's. Generally these are very inexpensive lights (9 LED's seems common), but some have hundreds of LED's and actually give off a decent amount of floody light. | |||
;SMD: Surface Mount Device - most high-power LEDs used in flashlights are mounted this way where legs of a component (LED, capacitor, resitor, diodes, etc.) are soldered to pads on the surface of the circuit board (as opposed to through-hole soldering where the legs of the LED's go into holes on the circuit board which are then soldered on the underside with the excess leg length clipped off). | ;SMD: Surface Mount Device - most high-power LEDs used in flashlights are mounted this way where legs of a component (LED, capacitor, resitor, diodes, etc.) are soldered to pads on the surface of the circuit board (as opposed to through-hole soldering where the legs of the LED's go into holes on the circuit board which are then soldered on the underside with the excess leg length clipped off). | ||