Good job on proofreading my post! Yeah I have alot of typos since I use my phone and I dont always proofread before submitting. I’m sure my point got across.
Yes your are correct tk35 was what I meant to type, my phone autocorrected. Mine is stock. It is 30,000cd.
Yes you are also correct that what I meant was 7.5x the candela. Throw is a term that gets thrown around by me and others and I need to learn to speak more precisely and think through my chosen words carefully when having casual conversations so as to not confuse people or cause them to buy the wrong light or something, so thank you BaronVonEssler for setting me straight. Lol!
Btw that sentence was to illustrate how happy I am that our flashlights have improved to the point where I have such a powerful light in my pocket that I can use on my farm as compared the tank of a light I had available to me then.
25 years ago I had a q-beam 12 volt corded spotlight (about 1500 lumen, maybe 150,000 cd if that), and if you wanted to go out on foot with it you had to bring your own 12 volt motorcycle battery (which I did for certain things)
As far as noticing the difference between the shockli and golisi, I do, when looking at my fence line where the trees are with one vs the other. I can just make it out with the golisi, and not so with the shockli after the initial 30 second burn off of volts. It is not just 10 percent more lux on the lux meter after that, it is much more. Voltage sag is not linear as we all know. 10 percent was the figure my meter showed at 10 seconds after turn on.
It was 17°f with a slight wind blowing while out testing cells and checking my herd. The cooling fins work very well. Several times on subsequent cell changes, I would cover up the fins with my hand to see if the light got hotter faster- and it did. It makes a huge difference on the lux meter too since it never hit that abrupt throttling that it did indoors.
I think we’re going tit for tat here…
I couldn’t care less if people buy this light-other than to maybe support the guy (dunno who builds these) who is bold enough to take the 1st step of stuffing the latest and greatest hot rod leds in lights we can actually take with us- I applaud that boldness even though it is risky. But i have my light now, and it works better than expected so I’m happy. I expected this to be a hot rod that would step down faster than my fw3a on turbo, given how fast my k75 heats up and throttles, but I was pleasantly suprised, the fins work well. There are apparently some with issues…If it doesn’t fit your needs, dont buy it. You are forewarned.