Holy crap does that mean a possibility of 9 or 12 18650s? That’s freaking insane and heavy. I so hope that the head diameter is NOT 52.5mm. But I’m not going to get it anyway… well I might…
This is very tempting.I wonder how it would compare to a TRJ-12 in real life?This has been a tough month for me, just when I think I’ve got all the flashlights I want, something new(and more expensive)comes out that I like!Budget light my pooper!-Rick
I believe the price is about 220 dollars as well, considering fenix build quality and compared to say nitecore tm15 299$ I think its an excellent price
One thing I do like about the TK70 is that it is a lot more accessible to mainstream. Anyone who wants a really strong light, but doesn’t want to deal with wierd 18650/26650/etc batteries can use it just fine.
I use 10,000mAh accuevolutions and it has great runtime and works fine even with 3 of them.
Its neato that they have an 18650 version that is more compact I suppose but theres already been quite a few such versions. The main difference is that this one will have the same TK70 throw due to the large head, vs a wall of light like the skyray and other coke-can-looking things.
God I hope what you posted is true.
Because from what I read, the BTU Shocker has the TK70 head.
But because it’s driven harder, it should out throw it.
Fingers crossed.
Thanks ChiX, I guess I skimmed over it too quickly.
I wonder why they opted for the smaller head, also by the pictures it looks as if it’s half as deep too, maybe people had trouble with the head being too large and shifting the weight balance of the light.
I don’t want to hijack, and I know I’ve been advocating the btu shocker for some time now, but I really can’t see any reason to refute it - from how I see it, it’s going to have the same throw as a TN31, more than a K40, have close to triple the outputs, which also means way more flood, and a bigger hotspot. This ticks all the boxes for me, because it has lower modes too and no strobo/sos. Only downside for me is that it only takes 3* 18650s instead of 4.
Okay time to talk about the TK75. It takes 4* 18650s, 8 or 12, which rocks for runtime. 3 hours 45 minutes, pretty long, weighs less than half the shocker (510grams vs 1200grams). It doesn’t seem to have lost much throw though, it has 92kcd which is still pretty high. And they’ve upgraded to a U2!
I would say for 90% of people out there flood is more important than throw so haveing less throw should mean this has more flood so for most people a better light.