Review: New Thorfire TK4A 4xAA Flashlight (2016)

Oh well…thanks anyway! And i totally understand the eneloops direction…got many myself (and Amazon re-brands), but there’s just some topics you learn aren’t worth trying to change a father-in-law’s mind about……ya know?

Haha, I know that one for sure!

Nope I’m out at 100 buck

I’ve just bought a Nitecore EA45S for $40 including shipping, so I can’t see myself buying this light. Shame as it looks nice. I wonder what the regulation is like?

Say what?!? $100 !?
Ah yeah there it is (the monkey is coming out of the sleeve :wink: for us Dutchies :smiley: )
“From 99 for only 49”
Sigh one just got to love Simon who puts a fair price on his lights and that is it.
But OT with another Dutch saying “the soup is not eaten as hot as it is being served”

The price is more inline with Crelant’s XPL-HI version of the 4 AA

http://www.gearbest.com/led-flashlights/pp_432312.html

If I were purchasing this light, I’m of the opinion that $49 is a tad on the premium side. I guess Thorfire is aligning it’s prices with manufacturers like Nitecore and Olight.

I really like 4AA lights… love my EA41.

Hope this comes into the 30 dollar range. I’d definitely pick one up…

There just aren’t enough budget 4xaa lights out there. Hopefully this settles down to $35 eventually.

I think it is quite reasonable if, and only if, the regulation is good. The current reviews are pretty sketchy being at the “Wow, this is good” level.

Mine is now using 4 alkaline AA cells. They were dirt cheap, €0.65 for 8
Awaiting the Eneloops.
I use it a few times a day for no longer then 5 minutes and first day a bit more, even during the day to see if and how it worked.
So it is used for about 2 hours now and I do not see it get dimmer, the trees at 50 meters are nicely lit and the owl screaming his/hers lungs out at night still chooses another tree much further away when I shine on him/her
Will do actual run test with rechargeable cells as soon as they are in :wink:
BUT 1 with the Q8 we work with Thorfire and 2 they send it for free, giving two strikes in terms of objectivity so only if I also would have commercial interests I would be a worse person to “review” it then I am now.

$36.10
http://www.top1price.com/thorfire-tk4a-led-flashlihgt-powerful-1100-lumen-cree-xp-l-light-ipx8-waterproof-torch-powered-by-4-aa-batteries-not-included-f5af5c5692cca51f.html

Beat me to it lightx. Also, the Amazon price is down to $45. It’s still not yet listed on the thorfire direct site. I might need to pick up some eneloops.

It was a bit premium at 42.99, but decided to buy. It seemed like the best option in its segment, AA powered high output lights(all 4*AA). No complaints except a very misaligned emitter, worse than I ever saw in a $5 light. Overall this makes me rate it one out of five at that price despite otherwise functioning flawlessly. Embarrassing as any AA light I buy is not for my own personal use. :smiley:

I don’t know if the code is still active but there was 20% coupon code which had brought the price on Amazon to $32.

Why not check the brightness using freshly charged NiMH? I guess either way it shows that the output is still great with depleted batteries.

This light can be bought as ThorFire or Sofirn on AliExpress for around 23 Dollars.
You don’t even get half a DQG ‘fat tiny’ for that. :slight_smile:

I think it’s an interesting light for those who don’t want to go Li-Ion.

Hmmm… WalkIntoTheLight did long runtime tests and his results show that the output is nearly flat and ~11 hours on Medium.

I only did a runtime test for 45 minutes starting from Turbo but the <15 minutes on Medium were flat.

This light does have timed stepdowns from Turbo and High though.

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Here is my TK4. Definitely more compact than Thrunite TN4.
Tint is 5500K which is quite acceptable, considering price I paid.
Modes are changin little bit slowly. Glass looks strange, like it is plastic.
Anyway, perfect flashlight for my car glove compartment.

Oh, I see I was mentioned in this thread. To clarify my results, I stick by my observation that this light is well-regulated (at least on medium, which is the only mode that can run without any step-downs). However, I do not have an integrating sphere, and my light-meter results are probably only accurate to about 5% or 10. So, it is quite possible that the light output might drop by as much as 10 over the entire run-time. IMO, that is negligible, and wouldn’t even be noticeable to a user. (My graphs are drawn with Excel and no curve-fitting, so that’s why they look so flat. I find curve-fitting the graphs may look better, but show inaccurate results in some areas.)

I did not do long run-time tests with alkaline batteries, so I’m not sure how it performs with those. I suspect, not very well.

If I compare this light to another 4xAA light, such as the Crelant 4VA, there is a large and noticeable drop in output from the Crelant over its run-time. IMO, the Crelant V4A is an example of a light that does not have regulated output. It has much higher lux than the Thorfire, but only when the batteries have good charge. I use both lights, but I find the Thorfire to be a better general-purpose light.