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.
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.
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.
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.