Got this a while back. Review to follow when I get around to it. Brightest light I own at 1770 lumens. BEamshots and the rest to follow.
Stupid name, nice enough light. The box looks ilk it had a rough journey here.
Ive got one on the way too whenever DX decides to ship it.
I keep meaning to do beamshots on this. It is cold, wet and foggy outside just now so hardly optimal. It is the brightest light I own, a good 200 (Well, 190 from my measurements) lumens more than my very far from cheap SST-90 light. It gives 1742 lumens on high with good cells.
Here are my measurements.
If the fog has thinned any, I'll go out and try for beamshots.
| Light | Battery |
| Fandyfire STL-V2 High | 2 18650 |
| Fandyfire STL-V2 Medium | 2 18650 |
| Fandyfire STL-V2 Low | 2 18650 |
Control
Trustfire TF-R2 (Manafont 3-mode XM-L dropin) Low. All of the beamshots from this light are limited by the switch - it is a lot brighter with a wire across the tailcap instead of the switch.
TF-R2 Medium
TF-R2 High
FandyFire STL-V2 triple XM-L Low
STL-V2 Medium. That's pretty bright.
STL-V2 High. This qualifies as silly amounts of light at this range - 17 metres 55-ish feet to the tree. It is around 40 metres to the windows behind the tree.
Varapower 2000 prototype on full power
About 60cm from the ceiling.
The bluish patch is an artefact from the camera's sensor. On high, all I get is artefacts, this shot was taken on low. The PWM is visible to my camera (PWM often shows up as horrible strobing on digital camera screens) but I'm not bothered by all but the worst of PWM - this one doesn't bother me at all
Nice review! I had to wear sunglasses for some of the pictures. Is that tree still alive 
I think your neighbors may not like you :D
I do get strange looks out the windows into the glare at times. I usually do beamshots very late at night but 50 feet really isn't enough for XM-L lights. My local swamp park is not a place one would take cameras in darkness.
Besides the assistant has to be kept on her lead just now as a small dog drank from one of the puddles in the park and died of it - there is something horribly toxic in the groundwater apparently.
Are your neighbors still alive?
Don't think I've cooked them yet, they should just be glad I'm not testing FlashPilot's tank light. Now that would upset them!
A lot of the silly brightness was due to mist in the air - it was a slowly thinning thick fog earlier on so the very air is glowing.
Trustfire flames should be fine with it, the current draw isn't that enormous. I get 3.257A on high 1.558A on medium and 335mA on low. That's with essentially new Panasonic 3100s. With some TF flames (Less than 18 months old) I get 3.450A, 1.625A and 330mA. The Panasonics have been used a bit since their last charge, the Trustfires haven't. The Trustfires freshly charged give me around 1795 lumens on high at switch-on.
That looks like a very bright light. Have yoe heard any negatives on this light yet Don? How does it compare to the Trustfire?
It's a lot bigger than the Trustfire being a 2x18650 device.
Here are some ceiling bounce beamshots of the New Assistant. The ceiling is about 2.5 metres (8 and a bit feet) high.
Control
FandyFire High
FandyFire Medium
FandyFire Low
Romisen RC-T6 High - this is a 6x Qsomething light. On low, two LEDS arelit, on medium, four and on high, six.
RC-T6 Medium
RC-T6 Low
TF-R2 High
TF-R2 Med
TF-R2 Low
That dog is probably hoping he could bury all of your flashlights. LOL!
As long as i keep her fed, she doesn't care how many yellow envelopes from China arrive here... ;)
Thanks for this very nice review!
Your dog doesn't look to be even bothered a bit, probably thinking why is he shining at the ceiling again, nothing there :)
Kaidomain has a 3xT6 drop-in for $33.89, here. I wonder if this is any match to this FandyFire, first edition or the second.