Review: Noctigon Meteor M43 6300 lumen 12x XP-G2 Flashlight.

It’s a video review, suprise! If you hate videos then you’ll have to wait until it’s reviewed by the next guy (jmpaul). I was able to crank this review out in 5 days, but hopefully the quality didn’t suffer. I was trying to be courteous to everyone on the list. This light should be on everyone’s radar by now, so I guess it doesn’t need much of an introduction. The Meteor is brighter than anything I own, and for it’s size to lumen output it has to be pretty much the brightest there is. It’s truly a wow light, in just about every sense. Also I’m pretty sure it weighs more than the much bigger Sky Ray King, and it’s twice as bright. About the only thing I didn’t care for was the driver. I hope the next person has better luck with it than I. It’s not that it’s buggy, it’s just too over crowded for my taste. Give me an Acebeam style control ring, or a Spark style UI. I mean I would love the ability to build a UI with the modes I like, but I can’t say for sure if this light can do it. Anyway I’ll let the review do the talking for me… because there’s plenty of talking in it- for better or worse.

To buy the light you currently have two choices:
www.intl-outdoor.com or http://www.mtnelectronics.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=80&product_id=505

The light was loaned to me from Mtn. Electronics in conjunction with Intl-outdoor.com.

Also here are the individual runtime tests… it was pointed out to me I made a mistake in the title card. Please pretend it says 5000% instead of 5000x. Thanks!
Turbo with LG

Turbo with Sanyo

High 1 with LG

oh you say it’s the Tom Cruise of flashlights?

Oops… theres a mistake in the video. I say 6600 lumens… it’s 6300 lumens. I was looking at the figure for the S3 3D which is right under the S2 1D D-D. Sorry! I just had one more look at the page after I uploaded the video and saw the mistake. Unfortunately it’s a near 4 hour mistake to correct with rendering and upload time. I’ll make sure I amend the Youtube description.

I will be measuring otf lumen and lux =)

And there we go… something I can’t do! So basically you have to read/watch all of the reviews for this light. Thanks… and enjoy!

Exactly!

… the ending was classic!

Thanks for another great and entertaining review! I agree on the UI, I'm happy with three or four well spaces modes and nothing more please.

Great review, thanks! Too expensive light for me atm, but looks fantastic.

Wow, awesome review. Thanks for putting all of that time and effort in. It is much appreciated.

As for UI 2, it sounds basically identical to Zebralight, which I love, so I am good with that! I can’t wait for mine to arrive now.

Thanks! I thought it was the most logical way to end the video. I would have like to get a bit more outdoor stuff so it flowed together better, but I have other projects to work on, and the light needed to be sent on.

I’m with ya. Heck I don’t mind a short cut or two… I do like how easy the moon modes are to get to on the Armyteks… but as long as it has mode memory I don’t really need the shortcuts.

A bit to expensive for me right now too. But I’m sure you’re like me and already have quite a few to keep you busy anyway.

Oh! So that’s what a zebralight is like. I’ve always wanted to get one, but never got around to it. They don’t really seem to go on sale often, which is why I probably haven’t picked one up yet. So I guess there will be quite a few fans of the UI, since so many people seem to love the Zebralights.

Nice review for sure, nice videographic skills I really like your attempt at depth in your videos by moving around and illuminating the areas, always giving the viewer a chance of better understanding scale by you being in the video.

I would have to disagree with some comments about the UI.
UI has literally 3 modes. I mean just think about it how simple that UI is for doing next:
1 click you are in Low, press the button you have Turbo, release you are back on Low. 2 Mode right there, easy to use.

Yes of course you literally have to ignore the rest. But basically that is what I do with my Zebralight SC52, 1 click Low, 2 clicks High from OFF, I don't even care about the modes in between, works like a charm.

Nice review Thanks.

I don’t mind a shortcut based UI. I would have preferred to be able to assign any level to them… To me there didn’t seem to be enough runtime advantage or brightness difference to using the high modes. But then again, I think that’s what UI3 is for, but I wasn’t able to figure it out. I don’t disagree with you, but I do prefer one like I described earlier to the way this UI is laid out. I’d like a low medium and a turbo.

And thanks for the comment on the videography. I feel like it’s useful to have a person in the frame, because you know a bit more what it’s going to look like under real use. I feel like photography can be a bit misleading because of the long exposures can make the smallest light appear like a lumen monster. If anything the videography slightly underwhelms the viewer because it needs more light to expose, so you can always expect it to be a bit brighter. That said, I try to make the video as close to what I see as possible. I also intentionally moved the lights a bit on the beamshot comparison to you can see how the beam looks at it’s edges… Is it ringy? How big is the spot? How big is the flood? Unfortunately I don’t have an ultra wide fast lens- which is what I’d really like- but they’re pretty expensive especially the fast ones.

Great review, I think the UI is a little goofy too but it's like getting a new t.v., you learn the buttons on the remote sooner or later.I doubt I can resist getting one.

For the amount of light output you get verses the cost...I would say this is an almost free flashlight. Anyone else would be charging $499.00 for this thing! I expect these to sell out rather quickly. Great review btw!

Oh, no mods needed either. Its got that..

Zebralight is 1 click high, hold for low from off. I saw in another thread that the complaints were that it can’t start in medium, although it think that’s a feature not a drawback.

On a Zebralight, double-click from off gets you to medium. Downside, is there’s a bright flash as it cycles through high first.

Or if you hold the button down from off for longer than 1 second you also go to medium.

Nice review, thanks.

great video, awful UI!