Review: Black Shadow Terminator 4*U3/4*18650

Great review like always Johnny,
It must be a great light as a bike light :slight_smile:

Thanks! Not sure how one would mount it to a bike but if you could figure that out then you probably would have a pretty good high beam. :wink:

I wish more folks who don't hesitate to spend $150 on a light would take a chance on this one. It really is amazing and quite versatile. Pricey, yes, but worth every penny if you can swing it, especially when compared with other lights at the same price point or even double.

I believe now you have seen my APEX bike light post (from your comment) and it’s the same idea (if you make the right plate) for every flashlight in the market and for this Terminator :slight_smile:

I always believed that if you want to spend money for a good bike light , above 2000 lumen and cost you between 200 and 500$ it’s better to buy a good flashlight like APEX ,TERMINATOR , DARTH and others and then with 25$ total cost to make a fantastic bike light.
Even RIC wrote to me that he likes my idea and he is thinking of make one, he didn’t say for him or for selling.

I also upload a video to my post.

Does a Skyray king body screw onto the head of the Apex? If I remember to when I get home, I will see if the SRK body screws into the Terminator head. If so, you just need the Terminator and you are set for another killer bike light. Personally I think the floodiness of the Apex would make the best bike light.

Also, if the do all fit, then you just need to make one bike adapter that will work on all three lights and their derivitives (Fandyfire, Skyray, Solarstorm, Mimic, Rustu, Black Shadow, etc...).

Yes, this is a great light. But, Black Shadow undermined its release by announcing a U3 version just a week thereafter.

Now the retailers are left holding a bunch of U2s when the demand is for the U3 which isn’t readily available yet.

Bad marketing can destroy a product - even a good one.

And people like myself who ordered early and got a U2 version feel a little misled.

Oh, well.

I don’t normally dis any mods, because I’ve done some fugly ones

but that is the DUMBEST mod I’ve ever seen.

edit” to be clear - i mean hot gluing a terminator….

You have to make different plate for every flashlight , you must be very lucky to fit the same plate to different flashlights.
I meant that you can use the same idea to every flashlight in the market and make it a bike light - sorry if my bad english confuse you

I read somewhere don’t expect magic among U2, U3 and XML2 U2. The higher the expectation, the higher the disappointment.
So I pulled trigger on my second Terminator. This one will be screwed into my current Terminator to make a 5000 lumens flashlight so that I don’t need to buy X6. She will be 8-LED running with 8*18650, sounds more efficient than Olight. My original plan is to get 5 Terminator to make a 20-LED to match 4sevens flashlight. Let’s see how things go with my 8-LED first.

Some people have “sickness”, I remember one guy amputated himself because he hated his legs for 40 years. He feels happy at the end.
I guess that owner hated Terminator handle so much.

How are you going to do that mechanically?

Rich

They have 1/4 –20 screw thread underneath. Just need to get the right screw.

something like this
Some adjustment will be needed to make them pointing at same direction.

Ah! Forgot about that… you’ll still have to add some bracing somewhere else… I should think that one screw only would break off too easily.

I got both the neutral and cool versions and they are flawless lights.

Rich

Ya, I need something between them for proper fitting and not to scratch my Terminator so much.
Combine two will be easiest one. I can’t locate standard L shape or + shape adapters or screws to combine 3,4 or 5 Terminator. Might need to do custom build to combine more. Anyway, 5000 lumens will be really bright as my single Terminator already can light up everything in front of her.

I believe that I fix the problem with the banned song and now it’s a mute video but you can watch it

Please someone from US inform me that everything is OK
thanks

The video works great for me. Super job on that light! Works great and looks professional. 8)

Thank you Johnny

The Terminator is being sold online by a local dealer in our country and I’m setting my sights on this beast. I can’t wait to get my hands on one. Thank you for this review. :beer:

this is still on my want list… any word on the u3 version and or if the possible “under driven” issues (when compared to spec) are worked out yet?

maybe i will pm the forum rep on cpf and see if he knows anything about this and or xml2 versions

I can tell you that Black Shadow engineers have a 1.5m Integrated Sphere that they test on. They test 3450 with a U2 version and over 3700 with the U3 version. It is very likely that IS are not linear in their outputs and that with my smaller IS (14") it is not as accurate with the extremely bright lights like this one. I read over 3200 lumens with my IS. My IS is not ANSI certified but is calibrated pretty dead on with lights under 2000 lumens and is exactly in agreement with Match's and E1320's OTF numbers for the same exact regulated light. The Terminator could very well be putting out the claimed number.

Another review on CPF did not test the U3 on an IS but they did do a lux reading and my U3 light returned the same exact number as his did. Build quality is exceptional and apparently consistent. I will say that people claim brightness to the eye is not linear. My SRK puts out around 2300 OTF lumens (IIRC) and I will tell you that the Terminator is not only brighter, it DOMINATES the SRK as you can see in my indoor photos. I really do not doubt the 3500 OTF lumens claimed by Black Shadow. Their numbers for the U3 were actually closer to 3800 in their tests.