Re: Atomic Beam and Taclight Flashlights

Hey guys, so many guys advertising these days. I am curious on feedback and insight on both of these flashlights. Atomic Beam USA and Taclight. Any truth or quality on both of these. Please leave any insights.

You’re just paying for the name. You can get one for like 4 bucks.

I used to have 5 atomic beans but I traded them to a kid name Jack for an old cow.

Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum…

Avoid them both, they are way less bright than advertised and you can get the same light on aliexpress for four or five bucks shipping included.

:smiley:

Meco makes the original. If you get one with an actual T6 it’s a decent light for the price.
I have one several years old and I grab it when I need a light that is ok to destroy or lose.
With the springs bypassed it makes about 900 lumens, comparable to the Zuesray zoomie that was popular a few years ago. Worst part is the switch.

If you are going to get one, get this one, it has real cree emitter (xml t6) most of the other ones have latticebright. MECO XM-L T6 1600LM 5 Modi Zoomable LED Taschenlampen 1x18650 Sale - Banggood Deutschland sold out-arrival notice-arrival notice

If they’ve mangled the driver since I bought mine you can always wire it direct drive.

I think a genuine Atomic Beam (branded) flashlight should be part of every serious flashlight collection.

I sometimes enjoy breaking mine out and doing a zoomie beamshot, then following that up with something like an Emisar D4, and ROFL.

As virtually every non-flashlight savvy person knows of the Atomic Beam brand and probably(?) thinks they’re the bestest most powerful flashlight in the world, the comic relief one can derive from seeing the expression on their faces after being exposed to something truly impressive in a side-by-side comparison can be priceless.

I actually ran across one of those with a completely fraudulent emitter. What do I mean by completely? It was a knock off of a latticebright led, which itself is a knockoff of a Cree emitter. This one wasn’t xml version though, it was xml2 and it was the nastiest harsh blue color I have ever seen. I mean how cheap do you have to be to not be able to pony up the cash for at least a latticebright emitter.

Thanks for input guys. I actually found one better than both of these guys. Surprisingly sold by Harbor Freight Tools. The light is called Quantum QL588. Claiming 588 lumens. I saw reviews against Atomic Beam. Atomic Beam lost by a long shot. Price with coupon was about $10.

BTW, yeah pay for name brand. Not quality.

The AB is pretty much a rebranded G700 zoomie that you can get for 5-7bux shipped across the planet right to your door.

Yet you’d pay 20bux plus s&h on top of that from the creepy nice folx from Atomic Whatever.

Good God, I’m watching (muted, thankfully) the commercial for the Atomic Lighter as I’m typing this. Same lighter you can get offa AliExpress for 7-8bux, but again, you’d get the nuculer version for probably 30.

How they can sleep at night, I have no idea…

I had never heard of this latest tactical addition to the lineup.
Went on over to the interwebs to check it out and found an incredible deal.
Not only will they sell you one for the price of one,
but you can pay double and get two!!!

Sheer marketing genius! :person_facepalming:

Here is a link to another clone on Aliexpress. You can find these things by searching “zoomable flashlight t6” or something along those lines.

There’s absolutely no reason you should pay any more than $6 for these pieces of junk.

Thanks for input. I am glad I got rid of the ones I had. I have 1 left sealed in package. I left it like that for ” nostalgia ” purposes. The Harbor Freight ” zoomie ” blows AB out the water. I asked for input so I might consider getting rid of the 1 I have left.

Any suggestions? Get rid of AB completely OR keep it for ” nostalgia ” ?

BTW, I got AB on promotion and paid $8 each tax included. I ended up with 4.

You could swap the driver and the emitter. A Nichia 319A might look cool in a zoomie.

LOL at Atomic Bean. There must be dozens of jokes about atomic bean = atomic diarrhea but I’m feeling to unwell to come up with something funny, and no it wasn’t something I ate.

I actually like the form factor it’s just a shame there isn’t a lot of modding potential.

Here’s a couple beamshots from the Atomic Beam.

Full flood

Mid zoom

Full zoom

A $10 ebay Skyray King clone with “28000 lumens”

Noctigon Meteor M43 219C

Olight X7

Convoy L6

Acebeam X65

Thrunite TN42 NW

Why do you have an Atomic Beam?

Atomic Beam should change their name to “Control Shot”… :stuck_out_tongue:

It was a loaner from _the_, plz understand!

Man I would love to have that photo lineup ready anytime another one of these threads pop up. It’s the old saying of a picture is worth a thousand atomic beams. Or something like that. :laughing:

A nice touch is the ad for 19.99$ atomic beam and it’s buy one get one free, only pay a small fee of 19.99$. Good lord at these retailers and the marks that click on something free without reading further.