Quote: “…In an open environment you will be blinded by the spill in front of you while a large part of the lumens will be tossed in air making it useless.”
Yes, true, correct, succinct and well said. I agree that most of the light is tossed away from where it can be of use, and the close in glare makes viewing anything impossible. I have several legacy lesser flooders that do this not quite on such a grand scale. I do not need the current offering that does this in the biggest way.
I want the current offering that does this in the biggest way.
Great output for 300 dollar! And I like the size, the design and the colour led option. In the picture in post #2 I do not see a 233A though, must be a picture of a prototype.
Thank you for the updated News seery! I see now, that this will run at 4000lm, for 1.5 hours. That is tough to beat in this industry, and becoming standard operating procedure for Acebeam. :sunglasses: :+1:
This looks like something someone at BLF would custom build for fun, not something I’d expect to see commercially-produced. 25k lumens, only 1.1 cd / lm, and only one minute at a time on the highest mode. It’s like a flash bulb — very very bright in a wide area for a short time. For comparison, the Meteor is often considered pretty floody… and it gets 4.5 cd / lm. Its beam is four times as focused as the X80.
Would probably be pretty useful for photography, but I’m not sure when else I’d need so many lumens at such a short distance.
It’s not exactly a light bulb either though… those are more like 0.1 cd / lm, or maybe 0.2-0.3 cd / lm when used in a directional lamp.
At the other end of the spectrum, there’s the BLF GT. It only emits 10% as many lumens, but the beam is 46 times as intense with ~500 cd / lm. Useless for up-close tasks but great for seeing things far away.
To add to the cd/lm discussion: lm/cd (the reciprocal of cd/lm) is an approximate measure of the beam area (solid angle), and so the square root of the lm/cd ratio is a measure of the angular beam width.
Never owned an Acebeam light before. Their prices seem high though they do have some nice looking lights. The Acebeam K30 looks kinda cute. 3x18650 powering a single XHP 70.2 to 5200 lumens.