Lumintop Ant Man (14500 LEP flashlight)

Iā€™m not sure that this light perform well with a depleting battery, if it does not have a boost driver (as I expect sofar) the output will go down faster than the battery voltage, blue lasers work at higher voltage than blue leds. But I may be a bit fast with my conclusion, must do the runtime test first to be sure.

You beat me!

Oh, and your serial number is the same as mine

Doing a runtime test while we speak.. battery I use is also a Vapcell 10H

I am not surprised it's not reaching the claimed output, but it's a pity it's not reaching the claimed 87000 cd.

editā€¦ If itā€™s drawing less than 1 amp itā€™s hard to imagine why the battery choice matters much. I think I would recommend trying to get an amp draw starting at 4.0 volts. What lights and batteries do for the first minute at 4.2 volts on batteries doesnā€™t help in the real world. Assuming everybodyā€™s using flat tops?. Does it have springs on both ends?

No, only spring at the tailcap

I'm not so sure that Marvel would approve of the name of this flashlight.

They probably have the name "Ant Man" copyrighted.

I totally did! :stuck_out_tongue:
But Iā€™m very curious about your copyā€™s performance, I may have gotten a dud.

The full name is Lumintop Ant Man Thor Mini :smiley:

I just ran the runtime test... but using the same sphere + luxmeter for another runtime test, so can't look at the data yet :D

The battery is almost finished charging, so I can measure lumen in my other sphere.

SMine didn't turn off after the runtime test, but was still at sub lumen output. The Voltage, however, was still 3.4V when I pulled it.

Ok, I got the following: highest measurement (about 2-3 seconds after turn on) was 162 lumens.

After 30 seconds: 156 lumens

Will do some throw measurements soon

Edit: just measured at 20 meters: 68,400 cd which is close to Djozz, but my lumen numbers are higher

Oh wow, thatā€™s worse than expected.

I think Lumintop has introduced the 14500 LEP category, but done it with a bit of a loser. Other than looks. Theyā€™re setting themselves up to get really leapfrogged by someone with actually 400 lumens and a 16mm lens.

Itā€™s a shame disassembly of these LEPs is prohibitive, Iā€™d otherwise love to see it.

At least you found a higher output than mine, letā€™s hope for a higher throw number too :slight_smile:
Edit: hmm, so not better throw.

updated the post.. almost same throw numbers as you.

Measured amps: 1.09A

Maybe Lumintopā€™s luxmeter likes blue light :person_facepalming:

That's possible!

Thanks for doing this. I was debating on getting one, but Iā€™m glad I got a Catapult Mini instead.

Mine came in also today, same serial # too!

I donā€™t really consider these LEP devices to be a flashlight.

They are rather a Laser pinpoint beam that has been Filtered and Blurred/Scattered into pretending to be a flashlight beam, That is why the lumens are so low and the tint is so high, it is a big compromise.

Where as a True Flashlight has a beam that has been focused into a fairly wide but sharp spot true beam if that makes sense and has real high lumen capability as well as various tints available.

If you like the LEPā€™s available now, that is great but they have not yet risen to the level of excitement to want to buy one, for me personally.
As always YMMV.

2 RCR2 cells might perform better if the driver can handle 8.4v.

That would be awesome but I doubt it can handle that that much.

I think that is true

the HDS luxmeter does that too, it reads a Novatac w P4 at 120 lumens

my meter reads it as 60 lumens

Hogo assures me he calibrated the Novatac himself, using a ā€œspecialā€ conversion factorā€¦

Lumintop probably adjusted their luxmeter (with a ā€œspecialā€ conversion factor) for the spectrum of the LEP