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?
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 for us Dutchies )
“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”
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.
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
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.
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.
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.