ChrisC's Thorfire VG15S Review (AND 500 posts GIVEAWAY)

I’m thankful of Thorfire for giving me the chance to do this review and because it’s cost me nothing I’m happy to gift it to another BLF’er. To cut down on postage cost I’ll put the spare bits in the tube and ship it in a jiffy bag rather than the box. I’ve not checked on postage costs and I’d prefer to limit it to UK only but as long as it’s not more than £5 to post I’ll cover that shipping to wherever. I’ll give it two weeks to see who might want in on this. It also ties in perfectly with it being the end of the month.

Put your name down if you’d like to win this light. If you’ve got a sob story or another reason as to why you want this light put something next to your name and I’ll put your name in TWICE. :open_mouth:

…. I might just scrap the whole sob story but the list will keep getting updated.

  1. desmondkun
  2. eebowler
  3. erik
  4. firelight2
  5. Franz
  6. freeme
  7. gorb507
  8. Henk4U2
  9. HorizontalHunter
  10. KeepingItLight
  11. Kozy
  12. Lightbringer
  13. lionheart_2281
  14. malamask
  15. mapache
  16. Petroleum Lantern
  17. rdoc613
  18. serp
  19. streamer
  20. sukoi
  21. The Miller
  22. vwpieces
  23. XXX-Man

Nice review
Funny GAW, can the sob story be made up :stuck_out_tongue:
Pics are not showing for me.

refresh. I seem to have messed up. if you refresh maybe 10 times they’ll dance around at different sizes

This model should have been updated to an XPl or XPL-Hi as well. That would have been special.

Thank you for taking the time to review this light.

I personally feel that the change in tint and the extra mode (and output) are worth it. Sure it could have had a XPL-HI and it’d have been EPIC but as it is, it’s great.

The sob story can be made up if you want. If it makes me laugh I might put your name in three times.

Who knows.

In the end someone else will own this light and I’ll pay to post it to someone if they want it.

If not I’ll gladly keep it as its a cracking little light

I’d be interested, if shipping to Germany is cheap enough for you. Btw, I think

should be 66 and 70

Good point. I wrote it before weighing it and was meant to update it. Thanks for reminding me :slight_smile:

SOB story: A friend of mine left Trinidad a year or so ago. She moved back home which was Scotland. I was supposed to give her a light for the farm but we never met (fet moded XinTD). :person_facepalming: Now she has no super light. She has moved to the city now for a job but , I don’t know which city or even if it’s in Scotland or London since we don’t really talk that much anymore. sigh. If I win, she’ll get the light!

(EDIT: I’m not UK based so if I’m not included, it’s perfectly fine ! :slight_smile: )

Nice review :+1:
Would like to have it :wink:

Nice review. The S-model seems to be quite a step forward in performance.
Just bought a VG10 myself. For a song, I might add. Now I’m waiting for the VG10S :wink:

EDIT: Please, please me!

My sob story is that I am in USA and can not win.

But thanks for the review and letting it go to someone that may deserve it.

Thanks for sharing your review. I like the charts.

Is there some sort of step-down or thermal regulation going on? Somewhere between 2 and 3 minutes, lux falls considerably, and, thereafter, remains flat. I have speculated that the driver in the ThorFire VG15S is similar to the one used by the ThorFire C8s. If true, that would mean that the driver has no PWM, and also that it features a low-voltage warning.

Please include me in your giveaway. I am a bit of a ThorFire fan, so I would love to try this one out. If you want to favor members from the UK, however, I'm okay with that, too.

Here's a true story from my regular Monday backgammon group. We have a standing joke about making sure you pick up your dice cup—rather than your drink—when you go to roll the dice. Well, my friend Larry didn't roll his drink onto the board, but when his coffee came, he did accidentally pour sugar into his dice cup instead of the coffee. I don't think he was trying to "sweeten" his chances, but when he rolled, out came sugar and dice together!

Nice review! Looks like a nice light, even better if it’s free from your giveaway hahaha

Excellent review on a very nice light.

Thanks for the giveaway.

Bob

Nice review! Keep up your good work and thanks for your opportunity!

nice review
thank you for the opportunity

do you think there’s a timer o thermal controlled throttle down at 2-3 minutes?

There is definitely a timer controlling the step down. It happens at exactly 3 minutes. I took the results just after the 3 minute mark to indicate stepdown.

nice light. let me in if shipping to Ukraine is cheap enough for you.

Serp I’m sure postage will be fine. It might cost me more but hey ho.

I really like this light so I hope one of you will too.

Great review my friend.
I’m in if your budget can reach to Greece