What is the brightest budget light?

The OP was What is the brightest budget light? I don't think that meant a National Budget

That Xeccon is almost 200usd. Sorry but your posts are starting to get a little too spam'ish for my liking.

Spammish for sure. I am still a big fan of the XM-L diode. I know CREE is going to start putting out a more efficient diode at around 1200 lumens this year and I will have those in the same package. It is all about efficiency with diodes as the XM-L creates a ton of light but it also pulls about 3.1 amps or a little more to create the light. I think in the next 5 years we will see a 2000 lumen light at about 2.8 amps or less. I have a ton of HID lights including a 6000 lumen one but I'm not sure what it is good for since it is too friggin bright. Light is almost like sound and above a certain level there is a logarithmic diminishing return on investment.

Thanks,

Greg McGee

Those Ebay/Aliexpress alu HIDs are bright....a bit over-speced but still bright esp for the money. HID long/short arc + lanterns or modded with PAR56/64s or auto ballasts/bulbs are the only way to get crazy throw and/or lumens which sort of makes custom LED lights look pretty dim. Unless you stick 50-100 pieces of XM-L on it. Laughing

Yeah, the only reason I sell the HIDs is that if there is ever an issue with parts it is such a hassle dealing with China for replacements. I just buy 10 extra of all the parts and stick them in a box so that people can get fast free warranty replacement. China will want you to pay 50 dollars to ship a 50 dollar ballast/bulb (just guess price) and then take 10 days to get it to you, at a minimum. I just buy the extra parts in advance, just in case...then they will replenish the used parts with my following paid shipments. I still like the LED's best for size and weight.

I sawy a Duracell 170 lumen "daylight" light at Costco yesterday for 11.95, takes 2 d-cell batteries. I was truly excited, a true budget light! I got it home and barfed on it... It focused but the light color sucked and super "artifacty." My C3-907 is at least 50 lumens brighter. I'm taking it back today... They had some 3 sets of 150 lumen lights but they sucked as well so I took them back.

Thanks,

Greg

The Prices quite not budgetary.Or we again have a standard explanation that all other sites will sell the cheap forgeries?))

P.S This was an answer tank007 , but his message to disappear.I not powerfully distressed))

brightest current budget light? i'd say the sky ray 3800 for 52$ is probably the brightest out there for the price..

I am a big fan of wash lighting and I do like to get the led effect lights out if I can use smoke but I'm using discharge effect light.

The brightest flashlight I have found for the moneys the KEYGOS XM-L T6 light for $25 shipped. It puts out a legit 850 lumens. And it's only 5 and 7/8" long.

http://cgi.ebay.com/1300-Lumen-CREE-XM-L-XML-T6-LED-Flashlight-Torch-KeyGo5-/330600868771?pt=US_Flashlights&hash=item4cf958eba3

That light will beat out a lot of the bigger lights. I know. It will easily throw a beam 300yds. It may not beat some of your better thrower lights for beam distance, but it will give most a run for their money in brightess up close.

Check these out.

Those trees at the end of the street are 260yds.

Is the tint on it as yellow as the pics show? Like compared to your other lights?

Nope. On a wall it's a bright white. This picture below was taken during daytime.

ILikeFL, have you checked how many amps that thing pulls at the tailcap?

They're direct drive so even if ILikeFL got a meter it's somewhat arbitrary.

The seller claims 1300lm (Which obviously it is not) yet you say a “legit 850”. How do you know this? Do you have an Integrating Sphere or have you read a review somewhere? Please explain.

As you have this light and a camera can you please post some pictures of its pill, either out of the light or in it but from the battery end.

I was told by a guy on here about this light having 850 lumens and a good beam of light for its size. I'm going to say that he is right.

http://www.manafont.com/product_info.php/ultrafire-uf980l-980lumen-t6-memory-led-flashlight-118650-p-5513

That's a different light altogether. Yours is a clone of this U80. Even it being a clone of the U80 means very little as totally different drivers may be being used.

What would really help is a picture of the pill in your KeyGos, either separate from the light or in the light with the pic being taken from the battery end - and - can you let us know does it have a glass lens & aluminum reflector?

If the pill is good and its glass and alu then its a v.good buy for the rice. Even if the driver is not brilliant that's cheap enough to replace.

Give me a sec.