Do not stop, more flashlights, more reviews, we need you! :bigsmile:
You’ve come to the wrong place if you’re after people to stop you buying flashlights!
Agreed!
One of us! One of us!
C’mon, buy more flashlights. All the cool kids are doing it.
Nah, abandon flashlights and buy (more) knives! That's what I've done! You'll never be satisfied with just one or two knives either!
-Garry
The good thing about knives is that they don’t really get obsolete or outdated.
Agreed! :bigsmile:
Agreed! :bigsmile:
I like that knife. What is it called?
JUST say NO! :bigsmile: Orrrr…seek help IMMEDIATELY!
I’ll help; send me a half-dozen of your lights. I’ll give them a good home and a warm place to sleep; not overwork them. No strenuous duty…walking the pup, things that go bump in the night…chasing the great-grandmoppet, yelling ALIEN LIIIIGHT!…like that! I’ll even pay the postage; what could be fairer?
21 inch Nepalese Chitlangi Kukri from Himalayan Imports over at bladeforums.com
Thank you but I’ll stick to cheapo flashlights for now. That is a mouthful and a wallet full. 21 inch Chitlangi
OK my flashlight hobby has now turned into an obsession. I have two SRK’s in the mail(luckily one is for my brother in law). This will be my 3rd and 4th SRK style light even after selling 2 to family. My second light was the 3 tyroid version so it was upgraded with sense resistors for 6 amp tail current. I also have 3 driver boards(3 tyroid version) in the mail incase either of the srk’s have the LED’s wired in series with one tyroid. I have 3 single battery(18650) CREE lights as well as 3 small mag lights from years ago when they were the best lights on the market. I should have noticed then my light obsession was more then a hobby. How many lights do I really need? How many batteries do I really need? Anyway I found a nice looking 4 cree XML t6 / 4x18650 light that looked right for the price. Has anyone seen this light’s driver or care to guess what it might be? The suspense is killing me and I haven’t bought it yet. I am waiting on the current shipping issues to reside before I buy it. “S8J 8000LM Lumen 4 x CREE XML XM-L U2 LED Torch Flashlight Rechargable Lamp”:http://www.ebay.com/itm/350896047715?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1438.l2649
Every time I see one of these, I want to build one!!! Just looks down right interesting. I can't build it for what they are selling these for but might just do it anyway!! ... Oh.... ummm.... STOP. There. I did my part to help ya!!
Dan.
Hahaha :bigsmile:
My sister picked one up for me years ago when she was in Nepal in the Peace Corps. It was made in some little village and they were very clear that “this isn’t the one they sell to tourists.”
Too bad it doesn’t satisfy my cravings for more flashlights and knives
That style knife just looks evil and I can see several camping\survival uses for it. I have to find one at a justifiable price(US $20-60).
I love my Kukri, this is my modified full tang Panawal.
I swapped out the chakmak and karda for a diamond sharpener and a flint rod.
Hi guys
I’m new on this forum but I have followed the flashlight community a vile when myself began to collect flashlights.
I have actually get this flashlight and I thought I would write some sort of review of it. Now I’m not English speaking fellow and my grammar sucks but I hope you going to understand the most of it. :bigsmile:
A nice looking flashlight and a very ambitious claim about 8k lumen about this light supposedly capable to throw.
I would say it’s is only 1k LM in reality. The finish outside is good but in the inside is a different story.
Many machining ALU debris leftovers and the inside edges aren’t even graded.
On the other side the reflectors are all aluminum and nicely polished but they are small in both size and depth .
The batteries fits well and nicely and they ain’t rattles !
the end cap with the springs for the negative contact for 18650 batteries
My torch flickered strangely on the highest light settings.
The cure is to change those abysmal wires from the driver to the pill with the LEDs to something ticker and better.
The LED light emitters
The pill settle place
The back side of the pill
The driver circuit
After the wire change the light beam became stable. The heat paste is crap and seems cheap and very tiny applied. I used some fine CPU thermal compound ( such as Artic MX-2 ) to replace the original cooling compound and it transferred the heat nicely.
The soft clicky button is good and very tactile with low, medium, high and strobe after you holding the button for 2 sec
Size comparation with the Nitecore P25 ( left ) and the Convoy L4 ( right, and I get it today actually
Left beam : FL05110 Right beam: Nitecore P25, both on highest light mode.
Lastly the beam comparison, now I’m not a pro in this area but hope this can be a help for someone. For me they looks very comparable in intensity, only the FL0510 has wider beam. The Nitecore p25 is 860Lm so this Chinese torch ain’t near to be the claimed 8k LM ( off corse Chinese LM )
So guys I hope you enjoyed this little amateurish review of my and hope you liked the pictures
please feel free to comment
Thanks L.A
It has XM-L2
Nice photos
Welcome to BLF :party:
It has XM-L2
Nice photos
Welcome to BLF :party:
Thanks jerommel
XM-L2, is that good or bad ?
I just checked the PVM flickr ( is that right ? ) with my camera and : It has None on all modes ( high, medium, low ) which should give this flashlight some credit
It’s the next generation XM-L
More light for the same power and you can (when properly cooled) overdrive them up to 6 Ampère in stead of 3 Ampère.
The XP-G2 is even more amazing with insane currents.
Obviously efficiency suffers a little…
PWM, pulse width modulation.
Flicker is more random i.m.o., it’s more like a (fast) stroboscope, vibrating.
Slow PWM sucks… it annoys me…