Okay so today I run into a friend , yes the same friend who thinks Monster brand lights are made in the USA and that thier lumen ratings have to be truthful because they are etched on the handle, well he started telling me that the worlds brightest LED light according to the Guinness record book is 4, 000 lumens and that that is a documented fact , I though the four sevens maelstrom was the worlds brightest LES can anyone shed any light on the subject (pun intended)
The foursevens xm18 is a monster but its a little large for a flashlight
http://www.foursevens.com/product_info.php?products_id=3060
Are we talking single led or multiple? Multi emitter lights like the Olight Marauder are 5000 lumens
Olight X6 Marauder (6x XM-L, Rechargeable) Review: RUNTIMES, BEAMSHOTS, VIDEO + more! | Candle Power Flashlight Forum!
The way he said was any hand held light I am assuming stock not modded , I knew four sevens made a light cannon I juat couldn't remember which model .
The xm18 could be carried 
and its about 15k lumens
putting a link to that so I can forward it to my buddy?Thanks
Your friend isn't wrong, the Guinness World Records recognizes the wickedlasers 'The Torch' which is 4100 lumens as the brightest flashlight.
That's old though, and there's way brighter lights now (which have more than an 8 minute run time). A Firefoxes 4 will give you 7000 lumens in what is basically 1.5x the size of a soda can.
There’s also the Lux-rc fatboy fb1
It’s a small monster, expensive, stock an 5-7k lumens
Yea buy I’ll bet they want big bucks for that light. Heck their other 1000 lumen light is over $400.
And that’s only for 15 min on high.
Yep, Lux rc are too rich for my blood. They are high quality but they don’t make enough to get the costs down.
Any. Documentation I can show him? I belive it i've been trying to steer him away from Monster (monster rip off if you ask me) and sure lair ai mean surefire oh i mean surefire.
For the Olight x6 marauder all I got is this
Olight X6 Marauder (6x XM-L, Rechargeable) Review: RUNTIMES, BEAMSHOTS, VIDEO + more! | Candle Power Flashlight Forum!
Oh on the xm18?
Well the fact that in the comments here
http://www.foursevens.com/product_info.php?products_id=3060
They say it draws 50amps
The math of a 1000 emitter lumens (900 otf ? ) for every 3 amps used, gets you pretty close to 15k lumens
50 amps divide by 3 = 16.66666666666667 times that by .9 = 15
15000 glorious lumens
Interesting, 1 bulb
Mind you if one is allowed multiple emitters in one body then there are many BLFers who have lights brighter then the “world’s brightest”
I wonder how many lumens one can get out of an mt-g2 emitter on noctigon or other direct copper connection very overdriven?
I think thats just a very old record. But a lot of lights beat 4k lumens now and for under $100, 12x and 15x T6 Trustfires do, 18sixfifty just made a modified J-19 that he’s selling that does around 4k and throws well too TomE’s J18 mod was 5500 lumens if memory serves…
My contest entry for Old-Lumens DIY build does over 20,000 lumens…
That doesn’t count though, he didn’t say brightest light emitting family sized serving salad bowls 
What about the super Kong, 20,000 lamens stock