I NEVER had nor will I ever have a flashlight w/ a proprietary battery pack. I like choosing my own batteries and will not be dependent on a manufacturer for replacement. The cost is also ridiculous compared to buying cells on our own.
I wonder if we have to face more and more flashlights with built-in battery packs in the future. Olight's X7R/X9R, Acebeam's X65/X70, Imalent's new lineup with the R90C/MS12, Nitecore's TM10K...these are just some examples from recent market launches and they all work with proprietary battery packs. Certainly, there might be substantial reasons why a prioprietary battery pack is better than individual cells used by the customer but in the end it will lead to higher cost/prices, more dependency on the manufacturers warranty policies and spare part availability and less flexibility if you take the entire lifecycle of the flashlight into account. I also wonder if any of these manufacturers have a plan how to recycle those battery packs. Call me pessimistic but I expect nothing but to find those battery packs on a remote waste dump in Nigeria some years later.
You might be right about the āsubstantial reasonsā but I still think itās just all about the money. The more you buy from them, the more dependent youāll have to be. Which means youāll return, and theyāll continue to make money. Any move any business will ever make, is to make more money. Which makes sense to me if I had my own business so canāt blame them.
Nice light. Since they used 21700, why not push the lumen output higher considering you could do that with 18650. Yea you will have longer run times but you have the X80 pushing 32500 from 18650.yoh could fit another 1 or 2 XHP70.2 in there. I just bought an X7 a week ago but Im still considering this as I love pop can lights!
Fairly obvious they didnāt put much effort or thought into this light, rather pitiful actually and ugly would be an understatement, looks like nothing but spare parts and maybe a slightly modded driver ā¦ ? Iāll be passing,
During my quick glance I didnāt notice the battery pack but that would be definite deal KILLER for a fact, never will I buy any light that uses a battery pack.
exactly, i feel design team really doesnt bother, almost all their lights i feel nothing that attracts me to a buy even, there are much better lights both design wise and spec wiseā¦
hard to believe that light costs almost 300$ but looks like its a budget light 50$ maxā¦. :person_facepalming:
I started this thread slightly frustrated. When I saw the email notification I had high hopes that Thrunite would have come up with something competitive, maybe harking back to their TN4A/Archer/TN36 days, but alas, it was not the case at all.
Thrunite make absolutely solid flashlights but there has been no innovation from them in years. It does feel like they have given up.
I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I like the looks of this light. I donāt see anything ugly about it. It looks kinda streamlined to me, for a semi-large light anywayā¦.
I wish Selfbuilt was still reviewing flashlights. The last major big-ticket ThruNite model that he reviewed was the TN42. In my opinion, this TN50 is the first major big-ticket ThruNite model since the TN42. I highly value Selfbuiltās reviews. In fact, all my past ThruNite purchases was after seeing Selfbuiltās videos and studying his measurements.
Will you ever work your magic on the ThruNite TN50 Selfbuilt?
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