Cloud
(Cloud)
November 23, 2019, 5:14pm
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Thank you very much for doing this for the sake of the flashlight community. Very nice introduction and I was able to get some gaps in flashlight understanding filled in .
Excellent write up. Bookmarked.
Cloud
(Cloud)
November 23, 2019, 6:12pm
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Sorry for s dumb question : how does one bookmark a post? Thanks
amishbill
(amishbill)
November 24, 2019, 12:14am
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That is one heck of a writeup.
Thanks for taking the time to assemble the information and make it presentable.
BOO5TED
(BOO5TED)
November 24, 2019, 5:03pm
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At the bottom of the first post you can click subscribe to receive notifications of future posts or just save the web page in your favorites.
Fubarge
(Fubarge)
December 9, 2019, 1:01am
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Thanks for this. Its very informative
This thread is definitely worth a bump.
BOO5TED
(BOO5TED)
December 10, 2019, 4:08am
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Can a thread here be “stickied”??
raccoon
December 10, 2019, 5:55am
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Yes, but only Mr. Admin can do it.
If you want something stickied, you can ask him.
EDIT:
This thread has already been stickied.
xevious
(Gary)
December 10, 2019, 6:18am
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^ Good to hear it. It has a very good explanation about the relativity of throw, spill, brightness, and temperature. And yeah, those zoomies are novelties for the most part.
Myke
(Myke)
December 18, 2019, 12:13am
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thanks for taking the time to lay this all out for me Mr Newbie. I will go over it a few times in the next while. Thanks
promobm
(promobm)
December 30, 2019, 3:21am
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Good article, you put a lot of work into this! Its very informative, thanksfully.
This is the flashlight bible in the making...
wle
(wle)
April 2, 2020, 2:36pm
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that bible has been written several times…
wle
Okay, evenif it was only bumped by a spambot, I’d hate if this got buried again. So… Bump.
JaronRH
(JaronRH)
May 4, 2020, 6:05pm
39
BUMP - Very well done. Wish I found this 2 months ago when I first started researching flashlights!
Can always add:
It must list “tactical” in its description. If it’s not “tactical”, it’s garbage.
Zappaman
(Zappaman)
May 5, 2020, 1:57am
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But these is almost always black. So don’t that make em’ almost all
ways...tactical?
dave1010
(dave1010)
May 26, 2020, 6:50pm
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I kept getting confused and mixed up between throw and candela numbers so did some research and wrote up what I found out. Also added some more explanation and a quick reference:
Hopefully this will make it easy to compare 2 lights when one’s specs says 100kcd and another says 600m.
Here’s some of the numbers to save you a click:
500cd = 45m
1kcd = 63m
5kcd =141m
10kcd = 200m
20kcd = 282m
50kcd = 447m
100kcd = 632m
200kcd =894m
500kcd = 1,414m
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