Thrunite TN 42 ,a new record in Throw

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.

I’m gonna put it on a chain and wear it around my neck on Halloween. :stuck_out_tongue:

Why not? Nothing to be ashamed of :+1:

That is Cool, so are you going to do the passaround here in the States??? :open_mouth: :wink: :+1:

Alex, I’ll shine it your way, you grab the beam… :wink:

Well, mine is cooler, 007 :person_facepalming:

Was quite surprices from the lumen output/candelas too yet DB Custom mentiones similar results…it seems that its a secretly bumped revision…lets hope they wont “nerf” the next revision.

My idea was to open and mod it asap but it so great …and the reflector is so good…i wonder how long will it last this way.

A great hunting offhand torch indeed, especialy the NW- when i ordered those the tint was only cool white yet its aint cool but more or less like 1D

By default they aint that bad, even non modded, even paired with an XHP0 emitter, the “cross” is very small indeed by default and the CDs went from 62k up to 90
Then again it needs tuning to be as the L2 one but i am pretty sure Simon will manage it

Hnnnnnng. I feel a sudden urge to replace my K70….

Interesting, I forced my internet to open the Taschenlampen page again and guess what? They have many pictures of a Thrunite TN42 SN:BM09 00002!!! EXACTLY the same as mine! Huh? Is this the actual pass around light that was in Germany?

<—- scratching head

LIke 3 months ago BG were cleaning their EU warehouse and i got several M3X- they got same serial numbers , all of them…
Maybe its a glitch in their system, maybe its a mistake….who knows, yet i am pretty sure yours was not just for the tests in Germany , that shipping all over the planet would nuke its final price.

Does it have “”chips”, nips or something? Usualy TN torches come in a perfect shape

I don’t have a K70… but I sure am feeling an “urge”……… :person_facepalming:
What to do, what to do? :money_mouth_face:

Very strange indeed. My light is marked exactly the same… but in a different place!

At Taschenlampen their light is marked on the ramped portion of the head, between the bezel and the housing or pill section. My lamp is marked on the bezel.

And here is my light, with the same technical text but placed differently… (mine has the ROHS designations, a production light, while the sample pass-around light does not)

The TN42 in TLF is damaged at the XHP-35 and has a mark on the reflector. So it can`t be the same one in your hands.

Robert

My battery carrier has blue pcb’s and the black connecting rods don’t have the writing on them.

Just tried a beamshot that didn’t work out. My wife and I staged out a mile on the country road in front of our house. I was shooting at 320mm with a quality lens, but using a tripod that wasn’t up to the task. My better tripod is set up for quick release plates on my other cameras, this camera is relatively new and I haven’t gotten the plate for it to mount to my better tripod.

AND, unforseen… the gigantic Sodium Vapor lights at the Distribution Center further down the road were directly behind my wife at the mile mark, blowing out the picture such that I couldn’t see her at all in the shot. So I got nothing. But, talking to her on the phone while we were doing this, she said she could look at the piece of typing paper I printed BLF on and see it plainly from my TN42. So there was light hitting her at a mile that she could read by. I just couldn’t get the shot from a mile away.

My wife’s testimony though is that it WAS actually hitting her with notable light, from a mile down the road.

Edit: Picture… I’ll have to find a more wide open mile long stretch for this shot, next time I’ll use my carbon fiber tripod too.

Simply amazing……… :+1:

Something stock that performs as well as my modded BOSS1 with a dedomed XPL V6. Interesting... With 2S2P cells, it would need a buck to work with a dedomed XPL, which we don't seem to have for an e-switch light. I would expect better throw in the TN42 with a dedomed XPL running over 6A.

wow, its really big :smiley: