Please someone mod this, overseas lights keep getting crazier

Please, I implore the creative among you, someone mod this ridiculous thing:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/5000LM-20W-8-4V-CREE-MTG2-LED-Rechargeable-Tactical-Flashlight-Torch-Hand-Lamp/113231878751?epid=2294388147&hash=item1a5d255a5f:g:q8cAAOSwHn9bjVNf

First, you do realize the specs are impossible, right?

Second, it would be interesting to find out if the reflector is actually any good. Based on what others have done around here, and the discussion leading to the BLF GT, that light would be worth buying for the reflector alone, if it is a quality reflector. But chances are it’s just a cheap light being sold for big bucks.

Yeah, the lumen rating is bogus, but throw seems not to be,

If it is a quality reflector, then this is a slightly cheaper alternative to a BLF GT reflector.

Someone needs to buy it and give us all a review here! :smiley:

Not in my budget however. :innocent:

Best EDC I have ever seen.

Can also double up as a weapons, sitting bench, conversation started and….SWAT team attention getter.

Nah. Needs to be a zoomie.

Oh yeah, I know the specs are bogus and it’d be a miracle if the LED was genuine. Just pointing out another ridiculous product. I was thinking you could fit a small generator in there too and have the ultimate camping machine, maybe a small beer fridge in the back. Without the hypothetical generator, it looks like it could fit about a 60 pack of 18650s in there.

All the sudden my BLF GT looks small. That a choad!

It is about the “normal” size for those 5-million, 10-million, 15-million candlepower searchlights that use a halogen bulb and are powered by a 6V sealed lead acid battery. Although the listing claims it uses “built-in battery 26650” that doesn’t tell us much. The listing also claims it is a 8.4V light, so it probably has two of those 26650 cells in series feeding a 6V MT-G2, hopefully through a buck driver. This is all assuming that the listing is telling the truth at all. They’ve already blown that assumption by claiming 5000 lumens output. But I’m curious about it now, and I’d like to see a tear-down of the light. I just can’t afford it myself, though. Anyway, the body size was probably chosen for aesthetic and marketing. I actually like the size and shape. But I wonder if the reflector is actually any good.

2600mah built in battery run time 8 hours ,2000-2999 lumens waterproof ,THEN LOOK thermal design big holes ,features attack head spikes,

lm is probably Mandarin for tenths of a lumen. Or this is the most efficient LED in the history of LEDs… :question:

If it’s a true CREE MT-G2, then it has a potential to be over 2000 lumens. But 5000 is certainly outside the realm of possibility for the MT-G2 line.

My mod TC20 with MT-G2 gave almost 2,600 lumens. It draws 8.6A current from the battery.

Uh yeah LOLOL 250lm/W is probably slightly optimistic…

20 W, 5000 lm…
Power consumption? Nah, too low.
Optical output? Nah, too high.
Thermal dissipation? Nah, too low.
Thermal dissipation of LED? Nah, too low.
Thermal dissipation of driver? Nah, too high.
Thermal dissipation of batteries? Nah, too high.

I’m sure that they meant something when they said 20W. I just fail to figure out what it was.

ADDED:
Heat dissipation of host before it melts? Maybe.
Thermal transfer to user hand? Nah too high.

The MT-G2 can draw 16A and run 4300 lumens in direct drive on two 18650’s. I did that years ago in a Solarforce M8. That’s a 6V variant. The 9V variant can do more. I have an X6 with the 9V MT-G2 that has an extension tube and runs on three 18350’s. Also have three of the 9V variants in a BTU Shocker making a comfortable 10,000 lumens.

There is a 36V variant that would be most likely to perform at the indicated specs, I haven’t tested that one.

They could have easily simply dropped a zero and intended it to read 200W…

The reflector looks very short for the bazooka, but it is probably one of the new 3-piece expanding reflectors, like stacking cups, you pull on it and it’s 3’ long…that’s the only way it’s going to collate the light into a beam as tight as those photos

I bought it. I hope, I can mod it with xh-p 70.2 and new driver.

Robert

The CREE website shows the real output to be this: The MT-G2 LED delivers up to 1987 lumens in cool white and 1735 lumens in warm white, both at 18.5 watts, 85°C. . https://www.cree.com/led-components/products/xlamp-leds-arrays/xlamp-mt-g2-easywhite The lumen output seems to be hyped by a factor of 2.5 or more. The MT-G2 LED +with driver +runs around $13 from Aliexpress.

It looked pretty much hyped up for the battery as well. The Panasonic 26650 batteries put out about 3300 mAh so even if the output were completely additive for four batteries in series it would only be 13200 mAh. That’s what makes up the 4 cell battery pack. Orbitronics rates theirs as 5200 mAh Even four of them would still be 20% below the rating shown.

$200 doesn’t seem like much of a “budget” flashlight no matter how bright.