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.
You say this now, but, magnetic ring control is awesome. You can select your output without even turning the light on, touch selection is so inferior to magnetic ring control it’s silly.
Thrunite makes a great product at a great price, the materials are awesome and did anyone mention 100k + lux from an XML?
200 bucks may not fall into most peoples idea of “budget” but compared to an olight SR series (which is about the only real competition for this thing) 200 bucks doesn’t look so bad anymore.
Update on long throw lights:
Ordered Wayne’s ST-90. Eagerly awaiting delivery.
Have a new Sky Ray STL V2. Somewhat inexpensive and has a wicked extra deep, smooth reflector. Exceeds the throw of my SR51 due to its pencil narrow beam.
If you think the stl v2 has a pencil thin beam check out a small aspheric or jacob a60. Most xmls have a lot of spill and arent really known to have pencil beams. Heard a lot of good things about waynes st90 though.
My 7g5v2 reflector is deeper than my stl v2, and has a slightly smaller/more concentrated hotspot. Im not sure about lumen output though.
