Thorfire TD26 Flashlight Review

This is my first ever flashlight review so please bare with me. This will be a frugal and practical mans review.

Thorfire contacted me asking if I’d like to review this light. I don’t dive but I can test it’s utility. Of course as a fanatic I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to test a new light.

Starting off we’ll see whats in the no-nonsense package.

The accesories are what you’d find with most decent lights (lanyard, and spare O rings). There is no holster but that doesn’t break my heart since I don’t use them anyway. A big plus is the 3000mah 18650 battery and simple charger that’s included. The back of the charger states that it will charge many different types of batteries.

The light is designed for 26650 use and the stated run times in the manual are based upon that.
18650 batteries will need to use the included spacer.

Now for the build quality. I am pleasantly surprised by how solid this light is. The threads are square cut, smooth, and anodized. The head is completely sealed. The light only unscrews in one area and is double O ring sealed. The anodizing is smooth, even, and seems well applied. As far as the metal magnetic side switch is concerned it is somewhat mushy, in that it has a long travel. It also requires a good solid press to turn the light on but isn’t hard to press.

The modes seem well spaced. The four stated lumen levels are as follows.
Low-30 lumens for 48 hours
Medium-200 lumens for 2 hours and 45 min.
High-500 lumens for 1 hour and 25 min.
Turbo-1000 lumens for 45 min.
Strobe is activated by double clicking the mode switch.

A few more technical specs are,
A Cree XPL LED
5.8’’ length, 1.38” body diameter, 1.97’’ head diameter.
9.7 oz. empty weight.
Max diving depth of 100 meters.

Now for the fun stuff. Again I’m no diver but I do have access to some local, very muddy lakes. I paddled my kayak out about 300 yards and tied the light to some paracord. The cord was marked in 2 foot intervals, I let it out as far as it would go until the light touched bottom. I left the light turned on medium in 28 feet of water for 20 minutes and paddled around for another 10 while the light dangled below.

After drying off the outside of the still working light, I unscrewed the body to check the internals. 28 feet may not be 99 meters but the light was dry. Absolutely no water leakage into any of the body or head.

Just out of curiosity I submerged the light in some very salty ice water to see if the O rings would contract and let any water in. I left it in the refrigerator for 3 hours.

This was taken directly on the lights head. Again absolutely no leakage and the light worked as it originally did. I did re-grease the threads for the saltwater test, just as and extra precaution.
So the rated distance and candella are 350 meters and 98,000. This thing is a thrower, nice tight beam with a slightly cool tint. Possibly 6k.

The following beamshots are taken with my Galaxy S6 Active camera. I tried using our Nikon D5200 but was having some serious issues with blurry pictures. The funny thing is, is that other than the misleading tint the light output was closer to what my eyes actually saw than the Nikon.
I’ve placed white markers on some trees at 30, 70, and 100 yards. For these shots I only used low, and medium.

Low at 30 yards


Medium with the marker at the right at 70 yards and the one slightly to the left behind that at 100 yards.


High at just shy of 200 yards per google maps.


Turbo at the same distance. Pretty impressive.

Even if you’re not a diver like myself, this is still a great dual purpose, very waterproof light. At the current price point of $48.99 on Amazon it’s an awesome budget friendly thrower.

What? No deep-fryer? :smiley:

Yeh, I like the idea of a diving light just for the “waterproofness”, even just in a pouring rain, etc.

Looks like a nice light!

I wish my first post was so professional.

Haha. I really thought about torturing it further, but I’d really like to keep it (:

Thank you!

Very well done!