Thrunite TN 42 ,a new record in Throw

Vinhnguyen54 over at CPF, you can contact him at vinhnguyen54@gmail.com

HTH

And I’m excited to see what your gonna do with it.

Thanks Alex

Just got the TN-42. Day late, but hey…

This is a gorgeous and quite large light! The knurling is heavy, very easy to hold. It’s lighter than I would have expected. Battery carrier inserts in either direction. Samsung 30Q flat tops might be a bit short, they rattle. My side button is not showing a blue indicator light like the paperwork suggests, not sure what’s up with that.

I’m a numbers freak, admittedly, and this is serial number 2. Very cool!

The reflector. OMG! :open_mouth: MASSIVE! My TM36Lite looks small beside it.

UI, somewhat different. Click to turn it on for access to L-M-H modes with last mode memory. Long press to turn it on in firefly. Double Click to hit Turbo from anywhere. A second double click for strobe.

I’m not sure I’m buying into the 600Kcd thing, the spot on the wall isn’t convincing me, but my meter will tell me something here in a little while.

Did I mention that the reflector is astonishing? The reflector is astonishing. The AR coated glass lens lets you really see the astonishing reflector. Flippin awesome! lol.

Ah, ok. Blue light in L-M-H modes when on. Firefly doesn’t trigger it. Turbo and Strobe do, of course. ’s all good. :wink:

Serial number 2! Wonderful. Excited to hear stock numbers.

Same here…can’t wait to see beamshots :smiley:

can i have a pic of the driver please?

Got sidetracked and just got back to it, but the meter numbers I got for lux are kinda stupendous really. Mind you, I loaded it with Samsung 30Q cells, brand new and recently charged. (Early this morning)

I test at 5M, it’s the only place I have to do it. That said I couldn’t believe it when I saw 28100 on my meter (281 showing in x100 mode)! That’s 702.5Kcd! 1676.31M or 1835.235 yds or 1.0416 miles. Holy Cow! Can’t wait to see what some other people test at, as, frankly, this is pretty unbelievable!

On the lightbox, I get these numbers (same cells, not recharging between lux and lumens tests)

Rated at 0.8 lumens……. I got 01.2765
Rated at 38 lumens……… I got 56.166
Rated at 256 lumens…… I got 337.065
Rated at 780 lumens…… I got 1010.85
Rated at 2000 lumens…. I got 2463.3

How does it compare to the K70? :sunglasses:

Isn’t the K70 rated at like 560Kcd? I don’t know, I don’t have one.

Looking into the reflector on this TN42 it’s really impressive!

Beam shot comparison to my other main throwers, 610 yds to the white barn.

MaxToch Shooter 2X with XHP-35 at 3.13A doing 2986 lumens for some 332Kcd

Convoy L6 with de-domed XP-G2 S3 0D and mtn Buck driver on 2 26650’s at ~5.5A for 439Kcd

Thrunite TN42 XHP-35 at a measured 2463 lumens and 702.5Kcd

I shot this with the beam pretty much parallel to the road some 250 yds to the right. A car stopped and watched, not sure if it was Johnny or not but when I was done they went on. :wink:

That’s astonishing. Good job thrunite! And good job on that convoy l6, Dale. That’s prtty amazing throw.

I need to get me one of these tn42’s but with another driver if possible. I would like turbo to be memorized.
You can prolly get 3000 lumens and 750k lux with your mods.
Gosh, I wonder what one can get with dedome xpl or a xpg2 lol. 1million k lux?!

Turbo is a double click away, from any position.

Hard to wrap the mind around a million candela, isn’t it? The K is of course a thousand, 1Mcd, the K is dropped and replaced with M. I don’t know if a bare XP-G2 would hit that or not, the lumens would be half at around 1100 as compared to 2463 and that would difficult to overcome. Not sure how it’d play out. Makes me wish the L6 were made a little differently, more like an D01, so the bare emitter I have in the L6 could be staged in the massive TN42 reflector…

Is the TN42 reflector larger than the K70’s? If it is then it makes sense that the TN42 does throw better, of course this doesn’t take away the fact that the TN42 is one insane thrower, 700kcd is on par with my 55W HID spotlight!

Btw do you have any mod thread of your modded Convoy L6? 436kcd wow, does it have smooth or the stock OP reflector?

100mm head, it’s big! Like, virtually the same size as a BTU Shocker…

I was fortunate enough to get a prototype smooth L6 reflector. JDub is having me and KawiBoy do some testing and make recommendations, we have done so, hoping to see a final release soon that is mod friendly for us all. :slight_smile:

I noticed on the Taschenlampen forum that the pass-around sample TN42 was serial number 001. So how cool is it that I actually got serial number 002? :smiley:

Numbers freak, it’s so flippin awesome when the numbers have a story to tell. lol

Woah…

That is really huge.