New interesting XML flashlight but with a cheesy name

TrastFire isn't any worse than Suterfire...

BTW, Trast means thrush in Swedish.

lets not kid ourselves here these people lie ..Or the 2nd best answer is ignorance .. neither is excusable . Most customers are pretty ignorant and simply rely on specs to tell them which one is better .. the bigger is better mentality and everyone here knows that it's a classic newbie mistake .

I'm surprised people aren't quicker to talk some kid off the ledge when he's all geared up to buy the biggest superlumen flashlight made .i blame the people who have been around the block for allowing the xml means it's a better flashlight thinking to exist ..there are lots and lots of people buying Q3 xre emmitters in lights because of tint .that's about 6~10 generations of emmitters back ,or 4 year old emitters so who's wrong here . Like match said claimed horsepower versus reality ..people love to be lied to ..An honest intelligent guy who explains things clearly or a shyster who is just out of prison and on his way back ..who will they buy from ????

They will pay double for a light with less lumens shoddy workmanship ,bad driver ...if you just lie to them

Many people will buy from whoever tells them what they want to hear. Both sides are complicit. The seller obviously, but the buyer is too, when they don't take the time to inform themselves, or even bother to apply the old axiom "if it sounds too good to be true it probably is."

@Match - Thanks for the current on the Z1. I think I'll get one to play with. And I'll take 600 that wins over 900 that doesn't any day of the week.

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...And I'll take 600 that wins over 900 that doesn't any day of the week.

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Hehe...yup!

Manafont has better photos of this flashlight, added just today to the site. Mind the ultra deep looking reflector it has.

Dont buy it, Don't support the abuse! Say NO to head abuse!

Mana says the Stainless steel head has been assaulted...

"Assaulted stainlesss steel head"

From KD, this torch has starred in the front cover to the movie - "The Attack of Stell"

"The attack of stell material Front cover design"

At least nothing like "Assaulted Stanleys Steal Head" :)

My Trustfire X8 arrived just today. I put black-flame Trustfires and fired it away. The emitter is flawlessly centered, all the threads are clean, no chips or dents in the delivery. A well built light, and its belt clip seems to work. All in all, the body is a step beyond TR1200 bodies.

It is a thrower and a well focused one. Light is cool white, I think cooler than my Fenix TK35 and it may even be a better thrower than TK35.

Haven't measured the currents yet.

The tailcap currents for High, mid and low are 1500mA, 650mA and 150mA respectively. Note that I didn't use topped-up 4.2V cells but Trustfire Blacks at 3.9V each. These values should give something near 3Amps on the emitter.

That's a nice looking light. One of the photos on DX shows it in a single cell configuration. Is it as bright in that mode? How does the lumens output compare with the TK35?

Maybe slightly dimmer than the double cell but still very bright (XML bright) on 1x18650 configuration. Couldn't measure the current though. I don't think it reaches a 2x18650 TK35 with only one battery but may be a bit brighter (or as my eyes see brighter because of the cooler light) using the full setup, but it's only my eyes I use to measure output. I also don't know if my batteries limit the current on single cell operation or not. Better equipments may give better information.

Thanks for trying. It's probably designed to take advantage of the two cells. If I paid for a two cell setup I would want the second cell to give me more than just run time. Are you able to do some beam shot comparisons between it and your TK35?

The TK35 puts out 820 ansi lumens-you can't push the XML much harder, as its already pushing over 1000 emmiter lumens.

Fenix TK35 and Trustfire X8, here's how they compare to each other in output:

Is the light from the TK35 as green as it looks or is that just weird white ballancing?

On my monitor the X8 looks a little blue and the TK35 a little green. But I would be quite happy to have either.

Nice work on the beam comparison. Very neat and tidy. Thanks Kokopelli.

Oh, sorry to respond this late. The walls are mild green in real. I don't remember my fixing the white balance at daylight so it may be the Auto WB working there and exaggerating the colors. The TK35 as a better color for outside though. X8 is as blue as it's been seen here.

Yeah look at the last two pictures, with white balancing is all over the place. You'll have to disable that for the beam shots to be of any use to judge color.

I know, I just took these pics at the office and I shouldn't be doing that at there, so I had to hurry :)

The last pic (bouncing TK35) on the other hand, is more close to what this room is in real daylight. So not a bad score for TK35 I must say.

THe last two photos look to be the same flashight on the table?

Ha! I'm guilty of reading BLF at the office, and even posting once in a while. But you're showing true dedication to our obsession by doing beamshots at work!