Which flashlight is the best combination of FLOODER-THROWER?

Zoomie is a light with an action called zooming - you adjust the beam width from wide and moderately bright to narrow and very intense.
They tend to be superb throwers (no spill to distract your eye, good throw-to-size) and superb flooders (very smooth beam) in the same package, but not without drawbacks:

  • the common zoomies are very inefficient in the throw mode - the beam is bright but narrower than that of a reflector light
  • unlike with reflector, you can have flood or throw, but never both at the same time. If you look far, you won’t see what’s under your feet.
  • often they have worse cooling than similarly sized reflector lights
  • typically you’re limited to using a single LED, so they won’t get close to the output of mega-flooders. No multi-led zoomie I’m aware of is good enough.

There are less common types that are better or worse in one way or another, I won’t elaborate on them now because I don’t see one that would work well for you.

Well, I don’t see a stock zoomie that would match the description, so if you want that route, you’re limited to modded lights. I’d suggest UniqueFire UF-1508 T75 with (dedomed?) XHP70.2.

Thank you mate.

Wow. Thank you very much Agro for getting into this hassle and giving me a perfect explanation of what it is. I really appreciate your time and effort on writing it.

I will look at what you recommended.

Cheers.

Any light that has a 35 to 1 lux to lumen ratio.

Very nice! I will look into it. Thank you.

I cannot seem to find their company website to browse their products. Hmm.

BLF Q8 would seem like a good starting point. Whether it will fit your needs is for you to determine, but in any case it is a very good light you’ll be happy to have.

Since you don’t have any lights, it is very unlikely that you’ll find the perfect one right away…

Like 175k lux and 5000lm. I’m all about performance.
I own the TN40svn which does 500k lux and 9000lms which I feels very throwy. I think 35 lux to 1 lumen is a great combination. Something with just a little more throw than the Acebeam K60 would be perfect.

You are asking one light to do two very different things.

Why not get two flashlights?

A BLF Q8 will do number 2 reasonably well. It isn’t perfect, but I doubt you can get a better flooder for less than $45.00

One downside is the Q8 requires 4 “married” 18650 batteries. The batteries in the Q8 shouldn’t be used elsewhere. They need to stay as a matched quad.

That leaves a lot of room in your budget for a thrower.

My light with the most throw is a Convoy L6. For 1km of throw, you are going to need a bigger light. I don’t have any suggestions. I’m new at this.

I had a convoy L6. Solidly built light for the price.

Acebeam X65 for larger distances and the Noctigon Meteor with some LED dedomed for shorter distances.

Agree. It is my 2nd favourite light.

BLF A6 is my #1. Neither of them do what the OP is asking for.

I own the Acebeam K60 and I can tell you they have great customer service. My lights tail PCB broke and instead of shipping it back to China Acebeam actually just sent me a new PCB with very minimal questions.
The light is great. I would highly recommend it. The Acebeam K65 could be a good option for you. These light are not cheap. Remember you are paying for the quality and reassurance you will be well taken care of.

I second looking at the K65, RC40, TK75, K60, TN40S, X45, X65. Personally it’s all about that lux/lumen ratio.

55 to 1 is to much throw for a balanced light for me.
26 to 1 is not enough throw for me.

I came here to suggest this as well.
You cannot beat this light for $50 if you want a combination of flood and throw.

  1. Great flood and throw…Will light up a large field with ease
  2. Incredible user interface with ramping to allow any light level that you desire quickly and easily
  3. Great build quality
  4. Support of the entire community of the people who designed, own and operate this light right here on BLF
    Phenomenal value at around $50 with coupon.

Thank you so much for your input. I definitely love the ring on K60. So easy to switch through modes. I might really go with the K60. It is just TN40S really gets me with it’s illumination in both far and near distance.

Thank you. Acebeam x65 is so big to carry in my opinion.

Do you mind telling me a little about blf? Is it a flashlight manufactured by people on this forum? Or is it a mod? Thank you.

This is not true the Q8 does not need married batteries they are in parallen you can use old laptop pulls and new high drain batteries at the same time, just when putting in the light their charge state should be almost identical to prevent high charge currents flowing from full to empty batteries

D1s ?

Over the years BLF has developed good enough relationships with chinese light manufacturers that it can ‘ask’ for special mods or builds, assuming enough members are interested. A number of BLF ‘special’ lights have been produced, one of the latest being the BLF Q8, delivered second half of 2017. See Q8, PMS SEND TO THOSE WITH ISSUES BLF soda can light.

The Q8 comes in to fill the “SRK gap” we have been suffering for a couple years. The original Sky Ray King was a fat ‘soda can’ light with a triple XML setup powered by one to four 18650 parallel putting out a little over 2k lumen. This great concept was then cloned and copied over and over again until it was only the shadow of itself and had lost most of it’s appeal - fake chinese Lattice Bright leds with a bluish tint, poor driver and general construction… Hence the Q8 project started on spring 2016 aimed at reviving the SRK concept… and it delivered much more then that: 5k+ lumen out of the box, great construction and a modern ramping UI. It is built by Thorfire. More then 2000 units have been sold so far if i’m about right. Under $50 - without batteries.

Beam is balanced. Neutral white with good flood and decent throw. A great (and affordable) all purpose powerful light it is good to have in the house and/or the car.