Thrunite TC20 - XHP70 - 3800lm

Geez, now you mess up my numbers. Lol.

Okay, so now Beamos light is measuring about 8% lower than Newlumen.

What is Crees 70.2 deviation per bin, plus or minus 7%. We are still in that neighborhood.

A good battery might get Beamos numbers higher. Even a good old 30Q will probably get higher output than the protected 26650. At least a lower amp draw, that is for sure.

Yes mine has the CW emitter in it………and if you have been arguing that my test are wrong at 30 seconds then that is correct……

I got 3791 AT START and 3560 at the 30 second mark , as noted in my charts I put in this thread and in my review.

Yes we have the foam that covers the opening where the light sits and various size holes in those pieces so that the head of the light sits down on the glass and the foam puts each and every light to the same spot in the center and I don’t touch anything when taking the reading , other than pushing the switch to get the next mode.

I don’t have the Q8 , but my 30 second reading on the Sofirn C8F was 2551 with the Sofirn cell.
I actually got higher readings with the Sofirn cell than the Efest purple high drain 3000mah and slightly lower than the LG HG2.

I was saying the Thrunite specs of 3800 are just plain overated/exagerated. I’m sure you agree.

I think ALL the companies are exaggerated if you go by what the actual lumens are at the 30 second to 1 minute mark compared to the ANSI rated lumens they list.
Very few lights (if any) will hold the rated ANSI lumens that they list for a very long from the start.

So when you see me saying a certain light makes X amount of lumens at start on my light tube , that is just what it is that I am saying , it makes that number when I turn the light on at the very start and I always do my test with a freshly charged cell.
That is why when I test the lumens and make my charts , I always try to list the start lumens and then also what they drop to at the 30 second mark , which is a more real number to me as to what you will see from the light in the first minute to 90 seconds of use.

So yes the 3560 lumens I am showing at the 30 second mark for the TC20 , is a more realistic number than the start lumens I showed when doing my testing.

Your not telling me anything I don’t already know.

I do find it interesting that you seem to suggest that ANSI-FL1 specs are measured at turn on. They are not. The spec specifies it’s measured at 30 seconds.

Maybe you already know this, but from what your saying, I can’t tell.

I pretty much ignore turn on lumens. It seems like a useless stat. I might record it, but I rarely post it.

Ps, I do pretty much think all companies exaggerate their output numbers. Some more than others. A rare few might even be accurate. I saw a Sofirn C8A that measured right at 1800 lumen when the factory rated it at 1750 and an Astrolux C8 that measured 1380 when the factory rated it at 1300. That’s pretty impressive considering these TA Tubes seem to measure lower than existing tubes.

No I am not saying they get the ANSI readings at the start , they take X amount of lights and get an average from all those lights from what I understand , to get their numbers and that is why I show the 30 second readings also. So in reality many of the lights are at different lumens coming from the factory and there is NO absolute lumens from any certain run of lights.

Jason, you have a TA light tube? And you’re in Houston, right? I have an Emisar D1s coming that I intend to give to robo, the plan is to flash Anduril onto it so he can experience the candlelight and lightning modes from TK… I’ll get a reading on it, send it to you or robo…. maybe just send it straight to you and you can get a reading on it, then forward it to robo and he can read it too… I’ll leave the cell in it and we can all 3 get a reading on the same light, same cell, with the only variable being how hot the chargers finish it up. That would give us 3 readings, 2 boxes built by the same people… robo’s box is actually the first one manxbuggy1 and his brother built several years ago, then they built TomE’s and then mine and then Richards.

Do you know where Maukka is located? Maybe we could send him this D1s and get a 4th read on it with his sphere and see how all the numbers pan out…

Yes, I have a TA tube and am in Houston. Maukka is in Finland, though.

Why not send it to Texas_Ace? He is just north of you near Dallas and he has the lights that Maukka measured for him plus his reference tube which mine was built from. So he can do a more accurate comparison.

You might even send a cheap light to measure as long as it’s output is stable. The D1s, being a FET driver, is going to fluctuate based on voltage. It may not be the best choice for steady output.

It would be cool if you guys collaborate.

I do plan to start a thread on the different integrating spheres, just not right now. I will mention that TA’s tube differs from most in that it uses 3 diffusers to help collimate the light and give better accuracy between throwy lights and floody lights. Here is the thread on them. Texas_Ace BLF Calibrated Lumen tube / Sphere No math skills needed - Several spheres still available

In fact, I think he has a few left for sale if anyone wants to buy one.

Here is the TA Lumen Tube.

TA adds reflective tape in certain areas to get the meter both calibrated and to have the lux readout on the meter be the actual lumens! No math involved. We are still working on that last part. Right now we all have to use math to multiply the readout by .68. This is being fixed, though.

The TC20 is a boost driver, drops output quickly, steps down, has all sorts of issue maintaining output from what I can tell. Not sure how that’s any more reliable than an FET direct drive light that would drop from a full cell in a reliable straightforward manner.

When the 12” styrofoam sphere first came out here I bought one, didn’t like it, sent it to TA. He found it had limitations and that’s why he made his PVC light tubes. He made em from smaller pipe for reasons of shipping costs. He also used connectors, pieces, instead of the one-piece style P-Trap ours are made of. So yes there are some differences, but in the end the averaging of many lights to get our multiplier evens it all out. There was a great deal of thought and effort went into these, we’re not using a shoebox in the bathroom or anything like that.

I wonder what would happen if someone like Richard got in a stock of a light like the TC20, several hundred of em or whatever, and proceeded to measure a great number of the same light, what kind of differences would he see?

I’ve got it now. :wink:

I would not say the TC20 is a stable output light either, at least not on turbo. It’s lower outputs might be pretty stable. Maybe a 7135 based light would be nice and stable? IDK.

And back to the topic :slight_smile:
I decided to change XHP70.2 on MT-G2. As soon as the parcel reaches me and I swap, I will pass the report. I could not take it anymore with this tint shift.

In the meantime, I tested the thrunite catapult v6 from the same family…

I got 1729 lumen @ 30 seconds…

That is up to thrunite spec 1700 lumen.

Komeko, you’re going to lose some lumens but the tint and overall beam profile should be much nicer, I for one much prefer the MT-G2 which is why I shoehorned one into an Nitecore TM03. :smiley:

Edit: Be prepared to do some fitting for the considerably larger emitter. :wink: I have found that a nice smallish pair of Fiskars is great for this enlargement process of the emitter hole in a reflector. I use a single blade of the scissors, in a draw motion, like a slice from the blade about halfway into the reflector (from the bottom) and pulling it out while doing a slight rotation, change grip on the reflector with a bit of a twist and repeat…. this keeps it nicely round and slices off the aluminum in smooth strokes that don’t pollute the inner reflector. Just be careful not to cut yourself on the other open blade. :wink:

This would be great…

If you send a light to TA he now has the correction diffusers, Jason should be receiving the discs soon as well.

“Just North of me…” that’s actually laughable. Ft. Worth is some 2 1/2 hours away, pretty much the same in distance as Houston is to the South. With 2-Day Priority, anywhere in the US is only 2 days away regardless of the distance (well, mostly)

Me and my slang talk. Lol

wow, lot of talk about the spheres I was not even aware of lol.

One major point I want to point out about all of this is that Cree only rates their LED’s to within +/-7%.

So no matter what the rating on a light is, unless then measure each and every one (the big brands do not), there will always be a 14% tolerance range on any light at the very best. Then add in the 1–15 or more tolerance of the components inside the driver (depending on the type of driver) and you can easily have 20-30% variance between lights off the same assembly line just based on the tolerance ranges of the components they are made out of.

So there is no reason to get up tight about minor differences in readings, it could be a whole bunch of different things.

I am up for playing musical lights to get some direct comparisons. Although the D4 is not the best option since it is not regulated. An S2+ could work in the medium mode.

So, if I build a PZL driver for the D1S and flash Anduril to it, it’ll be regulated. :wink:

Ok, that’s been a while back so probably some have no idea what that is… it’s a driver board designed by Wight here on the forum that uses 7135 chips on a 2 channel driver in place of the MOSFET. I can stack chips for some 4.5-5A total and it’d be regulated by the chips as long as the forward voltage requirements of the emitter were met by the cell. Probably a first, doubtful the PZL has been used with Anduril before but hey, random chaos is all in a day’s work around here. :wink:

It’s called the PZL because the layout on the board is all printed in the masking where the MCU goes, if you put the MCU on first all the other components are quesswork as to where they go, a puzzle, hence… PZL.

Using my TA lumen tube, I just measured my TC20vn w/ fully charged Shockli and got 5,200 lumens at startup. Applying 0.68 reduction factor results in 3,530 lumens. Moving the light around doesn’t really change the lumen readings despite the gap between the light and the disc because TA used several diffusing films to mitigate inconsistencies.

My TC20vn measures about 2% brighter than my stock TC20 (which I just sold to a friend) using the same fully charged battery on the TA lumen tube. My TC20vn uses the 4000k XHP70.2 M4 bin from Mouser. It’s not the same batch as the one used by TA for his MT09R mods. The Mouser one is an ugly yellow.