Don’t you love it. Look around when you’re out eating, in a restaurant or diner. Families with maybe one person without smartphone. Very social in, and to, their media. The only time they speak is when they mumble their order. The rest of the meal goes by in deep silence. Only broken when there is a sharp increase or decrease of the number of likes. You could serve them low-budget microwave dinners. They would not know, their minds are elsewhere. But they buy an overpriced piece of junk. When you’re lucky, you can see them using it. The moment they are in total awe of this heavy liked piece of technology you produce your little BLF A6 SE and you say “Expecto Patronum”. Priceless :bigsmile:
Lumisuck!
I usually just pull out my triple XP-L V6 Convoy S6, turn it on high and give them an instant sunburn J)
I nearly fell off my chair when I read this line:
“Lumitak Fashlights are engineered with precision, dual-lens optical zoom-heads, that utilize a micro-lens directly on the LED chip itself.” Omg, I didn’t know that the LED dome is actually a ‘lens’! :Sp
Well, their website looks ‘promising’, and that can actually trick some average people lol!
Pres. Abraham Lincoln said: You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
Check out the beamshot. Is it just me or does it look like 3 torches are creating that beamshot? The main beam then another just to the left and right of it. Look at the cutoff point at the base of the beam
Itsonlyme: you have one heck of an eye man. I did a quick “reverse image” search on Google and it seems as though this guy stole possibly borrowed the picture from a fellow flashlight guru over on CandlePowerForums TN36 Review
I don’t know if he took those pictures himself, as they are also on a few other websites… but if so, someone should tell him.
the user bluzie is from germany and member of the “taschenlampenforum”
he uses this location for hundreds of beamshots…
wow another “Heider” rip-off company renaming cheap lights & lying about the claims to make a ton of money from unsuspecting uneducated buyers…
On TLF he might be known as “bluzie”, on CPF and on BLF he is “amaretto”.
Amaretto is a user n TLF also 
as far as i understand bluzie owns that place and they work together…
THIS IS HILARIOUS!!
File name for the beamshot image is Warsun A9
But… the actual beamshot is from a Nitecore EAX
From Bluzie’s thread: über 1.000 Beamshots mit Lampenbildern | Taschenlampen Forum
They got me. I bought one. Didn’t believe the “worlds brightest flashlight” but it seemed like decently quality and a fair price.
This might come as a shock to some of you but I don’t know a ton about flashlights. I have a 2D cell LED Mag-Lite that is OK for what I use it for. I’ve been looking to upgrade for awhile and bought the “worlds brightest” on a whim.
So, after receiving the light and not being impressed with it I jumped on the web and discovered I got ripped off. Hopefully they will accept my return and give me my money back.
With that said, I (and I know this is probably a loaded question), can anyone recommend a legit flashlight for around the same price? I’d be willing to spend a bit more if it means a significan increase in product. Here’s what I’m looking for…
Really bright
I don’t know what it’s called or how to describe it but I like the idea of being able to use it as some type of defense weapon. Not just a smooth round finish on the frame by the lens.
From the little bit of research I did it seems like the rechargeable 18650 batteries seem to be best. (Correct me if I’m wrong).
Thank you in advance for anybody that can help me. it seems like I’ve found the right place to ask these questions.
Welcome to BLF!! Hey don’t worry we all got fool once or twice. What’s important is you’re here and from now on you will get the nice lights (probably a lot more than you need 
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I assume you paid $59.95?
For that price you can get the excellent Nitecore EC4 (MSRP $65 but can be bought for less then $45). One of the brightest and highest quality for the price. 18650 is the most common type of flashlight battery and make sure to get panasonic, sanyo or samsung if you want high quality cells.
I believe you’re looking for a strike bezel, the Olight M18 Striker could be an option. But honestly the best defense weapon is already the light itself, just shine it directly to the eyes, the brightness can temporarily blind and disorientate.
Welcome to BLF!! It’ll be better to start a new thread to introduce yourself and ask questions there as some people may not read this… but never go for lights or batteries with fire in their name maybe except thorfire… You can look up solarforce for better alternatives…
Edit: better still if you are willing to have your lights modded by one of the members of our community
Brandaloo, check out Code now public! BLF A6 FET+7135 Light. Short 18350 tubes and Unanodized Lights Available
1300-1600 lumens in your back pocket is a good enough defense and at the price it is, you will be impressed. Built to spec by and for the Blf community. No exaggerated claims needed to sell it.
Also look at the Blf X6 and what can be done with it.
And check out this group buy as well for another type of flashlight, the LuckySun D80, a great light as well, not available yet, but in the very near future it is.
What a welcoming group of people I’ve found. Thank you for all of the kind words and advice. I will be sure to check out all of your suggestions and let you all know what I decide. After finding this place I sucked in to multiple threads with lots of great information. Before I knew I had been looking around for over an hour.
Again, thank you guys very much!
You probably shouldn’t be looking for “defense” in a flashlight, but the A6 and the D80 for $25 and $20 will massively out perform this cheapo poor output zoomie light they advertise as something unique…but I guess it isn’t a lie, even each dogpile is unique…
PS: your “Ultrafire” batteries are probably the worst of the worst too, cost about $0.25 cents for them to buy (if that) and can be dangerous. I would throw those out and get batteries suggested in the threads on the above lights.
The Alphaelite Flashlight
Specification Sheet
Maximum Lumens: 1000
*almost certainly not
Battery Type: 18650 Li-Ion (2)
Battery Lifetime: 800 Cycles
*some batteries do last this long, just not the batteries you can buy with this light which tend to last 10 to 100 recharge range.
Run Times 2600mAh: High: 4 Hours, Med: 12 Hours, Low: 38 Hours
*if true max= 343 lumens
(2600mAh*2 Li-Ion/4hours = 1,300 mAh/hr. Cree spec sheet shows 357lumens@1,000mA, 502 lumens@1,500mA. If we take a close estimate as a proportion of current difference, that = about 24 lumens per 100mA over 1,000mA, which = 429 max lumens for this light. Next, you lose 10-20% lumens in most lights to glass and reflector, but this is a tulip edge which eats up more lumens, so if we give it a MASSIVE under estimate of losses and say its –20% only, its a max of 343 lumens.) This is ONLY if its a T5 bin cool white (which it probably isn’t, so its probably less) and ONLY if the driver is efficient (which it probably isn’t with a cheap driver) http://www.cree.com/~/media/Files/Cree/LED%20Components%20and%20Modules/XLamp/Data%20and%20Binning/XLampXML2.pdf
*unfortunately this light comes with Ultrafire batteries, so if those runtimes are gotten on inferior lower capacity Ultrafire batteries, it is likely this light only produces 100 to 200 lumens max.
Run Times 3400mAh: High: 6 Hours, Med: 16 Hours, Low: 44 Hours
*see above
LED Driver Board Maximum Forward Current: 2A @ 3.2V
*Math doesn’t work here, plus Li-ions are 3.7V and so the driver should not be running on 3.2V
LED Emitter Type: CREE® XML2 T-6
*Probably not, most cheap lights have T5 emitters or worse. And now there are fake Crees out there with even worse specs, which is very likely in this light.
LED Emitter Lifetime: 50,000 Hours
*see above…who knows how long the fake Cree lasts
Modes: 5 High – Med- Low – Strobe – SoS
Variable Lumens: High: 1000 Med: 600 Low: 300
* NOT a chance, NO way and NOT likely even for high in this light.
Zoomable: Yes
Lens Type: Aspheric / Convex
Beam Angle: 5º – 120º Max
Maximum Usable Spot Beam Distance: 776 Feet
*unlikely unless you like to see through a tiny square of dim blue light at distance in low light.
Maximum Visible Signal Distance: 2,316 Meters
*see above
Body Type: Aircraft Aluminum
*aluminum is used in aircrafts, so technically sort of correct
Color: Black
Belt Clip: Yes (removable)
*had a cheap one like this which bent easily and became unusable
Wrist Strap: Yes (removable)
*had a cheap one like this and it fell apart rapidly
Switch Type: Tail Cap
Weight: 226g without batteries
Operating Temperature: –20 to 60°C
*not with Ultrafire batteries thats for sure