My light meter tells me that itâs doin roughly 1000 lumens on strobe. And I have several xpg2 and xml2 lights that does around 1200-1700 lumens, and those lights have a brighter strobe than my tm03. And this is not by eye, but by my light meter
Sounds like you have a pretty detailed plan on the works of this light. But I think it would be fairly difficult to still have the access to instant strobe with a new driver. I think a dedomed xhp 70 might be another option to add to the mix? Or even a xhp 35 HIâŚ. Since you were able to achieve 3000 lumens.
The light has a deep reflector, but the light does not really seem to throw all to well considering how bright it is due to the op reflector.
Then in this case i trust my eyes more. Itâs pretty easy to see the brightness of the strobe, especially when itâs in low frequency mode and i blasted it side by side with a 800 lumens P20
I donât have the light and I havenât seen a picture of the battery contact side of the head. Could someone please post one. Mhanlen stated in his video review that tail contact with the two same sided contacts caused sparks. Iâm guessing that there is three contact points on the heads underside; one for the tube one for the outer ring on the battery and one for the center post. Since this light will take standard batteries and do all modes but turbo. Iâm guessing that the center post is same as all others. The outer ring connecting the the tube is the same as all others. The ring between the post and outer tube connection is negative and probable wired to the turbo circuit directly. Not knowing what the battery circuits do. My guess is that by connecting the outer ring to the center ring will allow all modes in standard batteries. Anyone want to try or post pictures of the contact board?
i also have the p20, and the p20âs strobe is brighter than the tmo3âs strobe.
although my p20 is slightly modified, doing about 1300 lumens, but even if it looks to be the same brightness as the tm03, thats only 1300 lumens when turbo is 3000 lumens?
well i also compared it with an imalent DDT40 thatâs putting out constant 3000+ strobe.
Again, the TM03 puts out lower lumens on high frequency. But occasionally when it hits low frequency, itâs comparable with the DDT40
Whatâs the purpose of strobe, in the first place? The definition might also define the answer to this queryâŚ
I would venture a wild guess that strobe is typically used as an attention getter. Car is down, strobe is being used to alert oncoming traffic of a situation where caution must be used to proceed. In this case, time is critical, having a cell die on you could put you at great risk, so having a lower powered strobe that does the job and allows run time only makes sense. Yes?
Strobe works well in running the racoons off from my porch stealing the cat foot and from my neighbors rabbits. But ya I think its mostly as a signal/attention getter. A 1000+ lumen strobe will blind any person and give time to run away. Is there really a need for 3000 lumen strobe?
Exactly Brian, even the red/blue/white police or military strobe is just not gonna stop someone, especially someone running away. (my luck theyâd be shooting at it!) Any bright light in the eyes of a dark-adjusted perp is going to gain you some time to make plans, but it wonât be long and plans better be executed quick cause now theyâre mad at ya as well!
Whatâs the rate of the strobe on that law Brian? Could a guy dump a 14 round magazine with double taps fast enough for the strobe effect to get him in trouble?
14 rounds period will get you in trouble unless you can do the last 4 silently, as in hellywood silent. (and then bribe the coroner examiner to not see the holes that were seen)
I saw some shooters in July that maybe, just maybe, could beat the strobe. Seeing is as close as I get to that performance. But I think after scorekeeping for them, and shooting an all classifier match, I moved from a D class shooter to a C class shooter just by figuring out what was important and how the formula was weighted. But itâll take time for USPSA to figure it out and send me a new card. Thatâs if it happened, but I think it did. It may have happened for others as well if I saw it correctly.
BTW, Max Michel is just a machine. I saw some fantastic times on âmyâ stage, and he just blew them away. All timing, PERFECT timing. :person_facepalming: Not me. I DQâed the match after just 8 rounds. Totally my fault and when I did it I just stopped. I caught myself red handed and made my gun safe. I stayed to score the squad as we were undermanned, of course I scored the event and we were undermanned there as well. But I learned that this old fart can either shoot or score but not both.
For those scratching their heads I gave plenty of clues for an internet search.
for the most part yes, attention getter. but it also act as a self defense tool for me. and since this light has a secondary switch for easy access for instant strobe, i see this as a good self defense light.
i train in the full contact combat art called krav maga, and they teach us how to fight with a flashlight.
and the strobe actually helps a bit. at first, we thought just a blast on turbo mode would do the exact same thing, but no, strobe was more effective. its more disorienting that a constant bright light.
I got my Tiny Monster today. Really like the overall look, something about a mega deep reflector just works for me.
No pocket clip, no lanyard. The picture on the box shows a pocket clip on the light, oh well. No papers either, which is odd, as I know for a fact that Nitecore puts a brochure of their line-up in the package and has a warranty card as well as a User Manual. I know this because I just got the Nitecore MH20GT yesterday.
At any rate, really like the light, got the cell charging, will look into opening it up and defeating the proprietary measures after Iâve gotten some readings from it in box stock form. Looks like the battery tube/head is all one piece, so the access will have to come from up top through the bezel.
Now to solder the proprietary top cap onto an Efest 3500mAh cell. (this proprietary bit taken off the Panasonic PF I bought before the light got here.)