After owning 4 lights from Pelican, two of them being their Little Ed LED and another Recoil LED light in firefighting applications, I can unbiasly say that Streamlight makes a far better light than Pelican. My Survivor LED is lighter, brighter, and cheaper than my big ed. My helmet light, the pelican polymer pro again is far brighter than the Pelican 2010 Recoil light. When Pelican first came out with their Recoil LED system it was the best the market had to offer without getting too high dollar. Streamlight's answer to RECOIL was a better designed deep dish traditional lens which works loads better. I still have all my Pelicans but they have been put to use in my tool box or in my glove compartment. The only lights I use now for firefighting is my Streamlights
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