Does anybody knows what kind of bulbs that are in the good ole' tried-n-true strobes that have been around for quite some time? What kind of watt ratings are we talking about?

I am thinking those bulbs could be pretty powerful and still conserve batteries because the flash is so short. Don't think in terms of old-fashion incandescent flashlights - LED's surpassed them in most brightness versus battery longevity configurations years ago. But with such a brief but strong flash you could have a very powerful light bulb and still a decent battery life, and with a light output way beyond those nice LED light strobes. Or am I mistaken?


Of course, just recently some super-bright super LED have been manufactured with maximum output roughly equivalent to a set of car high beams. Because of heat issues (LEDs don't like to be warm) there are engineering challenges running those at full steam in a flashlight. Running them in a strobe light should be much easier.