Orange peel reflectors average out any variations in intensity of the beam from the LED and its surrounding.

Dale wrote:

texaspyro wrote:

Orange peel reflectors average out any variations in intensity of the beam from the LED and its surrounding.

+1 Thanks! It certainly shows…

Built like a tank with beautiful knurling. Olight builds awesome lights

You trade you V3 for it?

Well I would say you and Brad both picked up fine lights. Darn good trade for both of you. Congrats.

I am waiting and waiting for a clone of this baby to come out. Timeless form factor.

Dale,

I told you the beam on that light was the best out of my entire collection. And that’s saying something if I can say that without boasting, but rather giving credit to the Olight SR51 which is now yours. That light will fool anyone on how light it is. Olight done well. That was my first real good light purchase.

I got the Catapult V3 XM-L2 U2 in the mail Sat since it now is 12:50AM my time. I posted pictures already. I love it.

Foy is certainly no expert but driven the way I imagine it is, with that wide opening around the emitter, a 63mm diameter OP reflector is going to have throw, just not as much as an SMO.  That is actually why I think an Olight beam is so damn impressive.  They put the emitter at a very precise depth in relation to the reflector and they meant to arrive at that exact degree of stippling.

Nothing on an Olight is an accident.

The SR50 version with an SST-50 had a killer beam too.  Was SMO, I think?

lovesolightsFoy

I know they say a smooth reflector throws better, and I believe it does. But I’m telling you the SR51 would out throw my FandyFire STL-V6 by a little bit. The op reflector wasn’t like the op reflector on a lot of flashlights.

The funny thing is, my only Olight is an i6 that I bought 2 or 3 months ago. I am so impressed with that torch! Like yours, It has the nicest beam of all my lights, by far. It throws way more than it should and has lots of spill. It also seems so much brighter than it should be for 1.5A.

I am now a big Olight fan.

Marc.

Here’s what Olight had for the specs.

That probably is real close.

The SR51 will compete with the Sunwyaman T40CS and Olight M3X.

Rusty Joe wrote:

I am waiting and waiting for a clone of this baby to come out. Timeless form factor.

Absolutely. There should be more side by side 2×18650 lights around.

Olights are good lights. I still like my s35 a lot, even though other 3xaa / 4xaa soda can lights are out now.

Great little general purpose light. Well made, good feel, simple UI, no frills. What you need and nothing more. (If only the tint was more neutral.)

MySR51 always tests at about 52K which is very good for an OP reflector. The lumens tends to fall a little short of the listed 900 lumens, I think closer to 850 otf if I remember correctly. Along with the throw, it also has the nicest and widest flood of anything in its class that we own, such as the M3C4, 7G5, HD2010, etc.
It’s an awesome light. The ONLY issue I find with it is a lack of a true low. Would have been nice to have a level under 100 lumens. But it is a SR – search and rescue – marketed light, so I new that when I bought it.

nice light dale! – strange… it looks like its almost asking to be modded? J)

Dale wrote:

jmpaul320 wrote:

nice light dale! – strange… it looks like its almost asking to be modded? J)

Great minds think alike. TBH, I wouldn’t want ti mess thebeam profile up. I imagine it could be turned into a total beast. But I wont sacrifice the beam. If I need some longer & brighter? I’ll just reach in the curio.

I believe if you just changed it to an XM-L2 U2 emitter and did nothing else the beam profile wouldn’t change. I still do not blame you for keeping it stock. The Olight SR51 is a classic and a standard for quality lights.

you need a zebralight if you like that electronic switch