What a surprising light! The Sniper/Shooter build we know with a shocking amount of throw, I never even saw this new tech coming! Lol
I’ve heard a lot of concerns that the beam hot spot would be too small on this light, and maybe inside 50 yards this could be true, but at distance… the design parameter… this light really excels! Robo was kind enough to forward a second review light to me and I can truly say I’ve never seen anything like it! The beam in the air seems oddly colored but when it lands on target the color is fine, a yellowish warm white that doesn’t discolor or distract.
Impressive, to say the least! Thanks for the time spent on this robo, appreciate you! And a big thanks to the reviewer that gave my sample up, not ideal for them perhaps but it sure makes a nice coyote spotter over here! :sunglasses:
Always glad to do the reviews Dale.
Hope you are enjoying that Xsword as much as I am enjoying mine also. It just kind of makes me giddy when I see just how far a low lumens , low amperage light can actually throw
Very interesting!
It would be cool to see a comparison of all these laser throwers coming out, but I doubt there is someone rich enough to buy one of each
Your Welcome ……… It is a great technology to get the throw without having to go into the super high lumens and all the heat and high amperage for sure.
The MAX Lumens was 417 @ start……the 376 is what it held through the entire run time until the LVP cut off. I think even if this light was only a 300 lumens light though it would still easily achieve a mile of throw , because in the medium mode with my measured 224 lumens it is still making 943kcd , which should come out to around 1.1 or 1.2 miles of throw as far as the ANSI meter.
For what it’s worth, I pointed the XSword I have at a water tower 1.9 miles distant and the water tower can be seen in the ensuing photo. It was a bad night to do this, humidity was bad and the bugs were out en-masse, but still the tower and it’s vertical legs can be made out as illuminated by this light, even from almost 2 miles away! I’m not going to say it was illuminated highly, it wasn’t, but still, even using the more inexpensive Canon G1X camera with a 1600ISO setting you can look at the image in full size, look through the mess of bugs flying around, and pick out the water tower in the dark night. (would be so much easier to distinguish if it weren’t for the illuminated flying insects!) It was a quick try and I had to leave very early the following day so there hasn’t been another chance since then, what with the amounts of rain that we’ve been seeing.
SOOC, zero re-touching…
And the little barn at 620 yds distant, clearly and pretty highly illuminated by the XSword…
Yeah but I think those people prefer spending $5k on a single superflashlight rather than $5k on 10 different flashlights that all basically do the same thing
Very cool. Nice job. I don’t really have a need for a thrower larger than a C8 really but, this light makes me want to get one. I wish it was a little more affordable although I do understand this kind of performance comes at a price. Maybe I can save my pennies up for one. Thanks again.
Oh you just had to show that one didn’t you tatasal? I’ve been trying to find one for a while now, made the mistake of letting mine go to the neighbors son and really wish I still had it.
