Good idea, Lumintop Thor or Nextorch L10 MAX?
Most of all these lights and others do the exact same thing — Excitement Lumens and Throw — Someone needs to make a list of real situation stats — you know like 30 minutes
The 95CRI EDC I’m currently reviewing has no step down, 70C after 10 mins!
A purists dream!
Can you include a list for soda can lights?
Yeah, why not. I’m a huge pop can light fan!
You can see all this over at 1Lumen. We test light runtime specs at 30 minutes. All the most popular lights are there. The consensus is most all are around 10% (some less) of start by 30 minutes in.
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@sirstinky, on that regard, I’m actually surprised more manufacturers don’t go with more exotic routes for improving thermal performance.
I’ve even compiled a list:
1. Black anodization(higher emissivity).
2. Raw aluminium/copper heatsink with high end thermal paste/liquid metal.
3. Efficient buck or boost driver.
4. Finned head.
5. Very low resistance contacts(copper alloy springs, spring bypasses, direct welded battery).
6. Efficient optics: AR coated lens and aluminium/silver/specular film reflector or semi-custom TIR lens.
7. Efficient LED: triple/quad LED setups are a good way to increase efficiency, although they do decrease throw vs a single large multi-die emitter, so practical efficiency is actually higher with a single large LED.
8. Low resistance cell: this matters mostly at higher currents, but lower internal resistance means less heat produced from the cell.
More exotic stuff:
- Finned battery tube.
1.1. Horizontally finned head, vertically finned battery tube. - Copper head, aluminium body.
- Phase change material in the head.
- Heatpipes/copper foil to move the heat through the entire body.
- Higher voltage is better than higher current.
Well, some do that to a point, but you pay a premium for it and then you get into the realm of un-budget lights. Acebeam, Fenix, Olight, higher end Speras, Klatus, Cyansky. Some of those features are above and beyond than most Chinese brands will or can do and still sell for a reasonable price. This is like custom mod stuff. You can get 4.3 volt batteries with Fenix lights, Imalent uses rewrapped 40Ts, copper heat pipes with phase transition cooling on its bigger lights, and you get buck/boost drivers on pretty much all the higher end lights nowadays. I love xhp70.2 lights for that reason. They are the most efficient of any LED, and you can get pretty affordable Thrunites with it.
I’m definitely lacking in lights in your “search” category.
Here’s some others:
- Haikelite HK90
- Lumintop GT94 / GT94X
- Wuben A1
- Lumintop GT8 (unreleased)
I have a list with some more in my signature.
What I’d like to see is a 10,000 lm+ soda can light with over 1.5km throw. The Imalent RS50 is probably the closest.
2 NEW ENTRIES
NIGHTWATCH Incredible 14500 lumens 21700 flashlight
IMALENT MR90 - 50,000 LUMENS
The Wuben A1 does over 2000 m…its a far superior light to the GT94 and GT94x. It’s expensive, but one of the best high output, long throw lights out there.
New entry - ACEBEAM X75, 80,000 lumens pop can light
New entry - IMALENT SR16, 5th brightest flashlight and the new world’s brightest search light 55,000 lumens/1715m - it pushes those figures too!
New flood king! - IMALENT SR32, 120,000 lumens
Just over 100 000 lumens for the SR32 and 43000 lumens at 30seconds. What a Pitty…
It is, but with current technology and at a “somewhat” affordable price. It is interesting. I won’t be buying one for the $620 price. Could they do better today? Probably, but at what cost?
No Maxa Beam? The MF05 is bigger than the Maxa Beam, the W50 is the same price, they both get spots, why not the Maxa Beam? Maybe it would push more companies to go further if they constantly see Peak Beam owning them for the last 30 years with every new light they put out lol. Even the Gen 2 Maxa Beam’s from the 90’s beats every light in the Throw list.
Big head Lemax LX70
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Just measured the SR32, it is brighter than the MS18 at turn on