400 Thrunite lumens and 650 thrunite lumens…. ok, but those are not (I think) the lumens that I know about brands like Fenix or Eagletac….other words are not 400 lumens or 650 lumens.
Yes, but are ANSI Lumens? people offer their measurements, I want to know which device offers the same for other popular flashlights. I see some reviews with data measuring people, but they are not real,…. are the data that his equipments offers to him… Dou you really think that Thrunite has a 1xAA with 400 lumens (with NimH)?.
I’ve recently boutght a Olight ST25 woW (I thought)!!! 550 lumens with 2xaa…. but really perhaps 400-450 about 10-15 seconds and downnnnnn fassst… Brands are playing with us …
I would have bought afew if it had a forward tail clicky and side switch like the TN12, an extention tube and a forward clicky cap or reverse as an option would be good option IMHO. It would be enable the use of 3 X AA NIMH for extented runtimes, doubt it will happen but what the hey i’ll throw the idea out there and see if it sticks.
With abit of tweeking this light could lego together to meet many needs. I’ll pass and stick to my venerable LD25’s oldie bot a goodie. Thanks for the pointer 264.
Actually the originally linked to page says 800 Lumens with the extension tube used which I presume means two AA NiMh batteries. Statement cut and pasted below. Based on voltage and using a high current 14500 presumably it can also do the high output but the linked to page does not actually say so.
very surprised to see a review by Selfbuilt on such a new offering. The numbers are rather amazing to me! How are manufacturers ‘suddenly’ getting such output from a AA cell. The Armtek is another. I mean wasn’t ~120 lumens the max output on most 1 AA lights? So, what’s happened. Have they been playing down all these years? Or is just the emitter? Very attractive offering to me. I requested HKE to carry it and he said he would get them.
I believe most manufacturers of AA lights have been keeping output constrained to avoid complaints from those running alkaleaks. Thrunite and Armytek have seen fit to release high powered drivers that really necessitate good NiMH cells. Let's hope a few others start following suit!
BTW.... The output on these new AA series lights from Thrunite looks like walking all over the current Armytek offerings. Selfbuilt is testing OTF whereas Armytek is quoting LED lumens. BIG difference!
Yes, of course Selfbuilt is believable for me ( but many of his values for AA flashlights, I speak of aa flashlights because I have dozens, are slightly overrated).
Nonetheless, it’s awesome, definitely I will buy a thrunite 2A.
I didn’t even get all the way through Selfbuilts review before I ordered one!The high output on 1 NiMh is great, but the mode spacing and flat runtime graphs are what really sold me.This thing is brighter on 1 NiMh than my other 1aa sized lights are on a 14500, yet it still has good low modes with either chemistry.Now I just have to wait for it to make it across the country.