You are a resource of flashlight knowledge. Keep talking, lots of people are listening! September is around the corner and I remember last year, many manufacturers released new lights then in anticipation of the Xmas selling season.
I need a powerful long thrower for when I am out on the prairie pastures at night tracking coyotes, and Javelina (hooved mammels, belongs to peccary family) and various wildcats that prey on the helpless cattle. 5 to 800 yards is chicken feed out in the wide open West. And mind you, those animals are not wearing Dallas Cowboy uniforms so I need abundant light to see their light damping, camouflaged body. Many times, just the intense light will make the predators skedaddle.
I don’t want something super large and heavy like those huge HID’s since they will bounce around and possibly upset my horse. I already have a heavy rifle on board plus my .44 mag on my hip so I have to draw the line somewhere. I am leaning toward Wayne’s time dilation LED Search & Destroy light. It appears to have serious throw without being a beast to carry.
I just got my first thrower based on reviews here on BLF: the UltraFire HD2010. I may have missed if someone here has already mentioned it, but my god, what a BEAST of a light. Last night, I had it up at the pub to show a couple people, and we were lighting up the front of a supermarket an easy 200+ yards away in a suburban street-light saturated environment. You give me a moonless night out in the the country with this thing and I have no doubt I could be clearly spotting stuff 400+ yards out.
Again, it’s only my first thrower, and I don’t have my 26650s yet - just a TFF 18650 powering it - but it’s certainly a respectable thrower. Good use of a single XM-L emitter, that’s for sure. $33 at TMart.com, and shipped from a US warehouse. I got it in 4 days.
Yeah……. A 26650 will make a difference …… Not by much if you are running a Panasonic 3100mah, but the beam will be brighter and more sharper with a 26650. I think it has to do with the draw on the cell. I have heard that a TR-J12 puts more lumens out with (2) cells than 3… IMO opinion all lights react different according to the driver and quality of the LED.
Interesting. I’m just running TF Flame 18650s right now. Haven’t gotten Panasonics yet. I am sticking with single cell, single emitters for now. But I wanna at least pull as much as I can out of them. I know I can mod the HD2010 to run more efficient and less hot. But I don’t think I’ll try to do that for now either. Not yet.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but the 3100mah, as opposed to my TF 3000mah, only have longer run times, right? WHen I read the reviews here on BLF, it seemed the TF cells from Manafont were fairly consistent with capacity and voltage output. Are the Panasonics really capable of putting out more amps? And it seems the 26650s would have to be higher voltage as well to push these lights to higher amps, as opposed to just delivering longer run times?
(only asking these questions because they should still pertain to the original post about dedicated throwers, not just the HD2010…)
Per experience I bought UF cells 2400mah, 3400mah, 4000mah, 5000mah…… Name it I bought it …….
My lights burn brighter and more constant with a good Panasonic 18650…. There are a lot of good ones like Callies, AW, and my favorite Orbtronics.
All I can explain is that a light running on a 2400 UF will run bright at full power for 5 minutes then empty in 1.5 hours.
A Panasonic will run on full power from the time you turn on until dead and run for 3 or 4 hours….
This is an example, I’m not a battery expert !
With a good cell your flashlight will turn HOT in 30 seconds to a minute, with a budget battery it might get warm…… This at the end means, get the best cells if you want your torch to function at It’s full potential…….
So are saying the 26650 battery puts more amps to the emmitter? If so I will be ordering some tonight, have the ultraok light with the 57mm head and meritline just shipped out my HD2010 today!
It’ll be hard to get 800 yards of throw from any LED light. Even some HIDs have trouble at that distance.
You’ll need a very large reflector to get lots of light that far down, a custom job might be in order. If you need the light to be small, a powerful white laser with a beam spreader (red, green, and a blue laser diodes and a few beam splitters working backwards). The white laser might not give you much spread though.
From selfbuilt’s reviews, the Olight SR95 UT seems to have the most throw out of the LED lights he’s reviewed. The Titanium Innovation’s L35 HID still out throws it though.
Yeah…. You see a different beam, I don’t know how to explain it. I have a Trustfire A8, with a 18650 the center is a round bright circle with no definition, with a 26650 you can see on the wall more definition on the LED…. Does it make sense ? It just puts out more light……
I’m sure it’ll hit 800 yards and more and return good amounts of light (the SR95 UT has similar/slightly higher lux numbers), I’m just not sure how much light he’ll need to easily identify animals at that distance. It won’t hurt for skytop to try it
its a very sought after light and pretty rare because the maker is just so busy that whenever he makes them, it gets sold out within days. and now theres a wait.
theres alot of comparison shots on cpf and fln against all the highpowered lights.
its kinda puts the sr90 and the tk70 to shame.
its puts out like 200,000 lux.
i own one and it is truly a beast. you can use either 3 d cells or 4 c cells for turbo mode.
it uses an sst-90.
if i knew how to post pictures on here, i would have posted pictures on this beast already.
My buddy got a pair of Orbtronics when I helped him order his first 18650 torch. I’m down to get a couple after your comments. Thanks again.
Oh… and I was going to say… if someone ends up with a light that reaches 800 yards, that’s farther than we can see detail with the naked eye anyway. Gotta have some pretty good magnification see that far even in daylight.
Selfbuilt just tested the production version of the Niwalker NWK750, which is pretty robust, according to the torture tests by run4jc. Nice thing is that it performs well on both one and two 18650 cells, and is seemingly a great thrower.
Oh man…… 
