No one has really commented on my spreadsheet, which makes me think people don’t care for something like that, which is why I haven’t bothered to make it more complete… Throwers - Google Sheets
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Regarding bunnies - I know NZ and AU have issues with certain species taking over, but I also know what humans are capable of (mass killings). I’m curious about the bunny populations in NZ…
Yes we do eat bunnies - though obviously not hundreds of them at a time… Bunny backsteaks and hindquarters are very like chicken - a whiteish meat. Hares good too - both delicacies in many parts of the world. Other very tasty game meats we shoot are wallaby (introduced in NZ from Aus) - tastes kind of a cross between veal and venison, of course all the species of deer, and wild pork. All introduced species. Popped two deer on a bunny shooting trip recently.
No natural predators in NZ - except men with rifles and big shiny torches. Which brings us back to thrower lights….
Ohhh - I got tons more of throw #'s for stock and mods... I got the #'s in a notebook at home. You could also fill in a bunch from rdrfronty's published lists - I gave you the links in an earlier post.
There seems to be two camps on lumens and kcd measurments - mine, rdrfronty, and DBCStm seem to agree pretty closely, a couple of other BLF'ers also. But then there are selfbuilt's and some others that range lower. Could be the meters, or methodology, or both. There's almost always variety though from unit to unit - I see this a lot because frequently I have mutiple stock lights on-hand. Also, what cells you use can play a big part in results as well, depending on how well regulated the light is. For throw, I really should state at what distance the measurement was taken at, because that's a factor too. I always take mine indoors at 5 meters now.
Only review I could find with throw measurement is this Fenix TK70 Review | Candle Power Flashlight Forum
64.5 kcd far from the rated 130.5 kcd. So either reviewer’s or Fenix’s measurement is way off. After seeing this I’m also a bit curious as to its measurement.
On another note, I received an unbranded Courui the other day that pulls a respectable 52kcd stock off of some LG laptop pulls.
Thanks, that reviewer says that he tested from one meter, and someone else said that at 10 meters that he got double his number for the kcd, the reviewer then said that he would try again with a 10 meter reading (but never posted the results).
I don’t really know how to read those numbers, but I think that the TK70 while too big and old for cutting edge stuff, is still among the biggest boys on results, is that correct?
As someone who won’t be buying anything more powerful for a couple of years, and that bought the TK70 used a few months ago and hasn’t been able to take it outside of the city, I’m trying to figure out if it still ranks among the most powerful lights in the dark, out in the country. Is the beam still cutting edge good in rankings?
Don’t have this one myself, but others have said it to be around 45kcd. Haven’t seen hard numbers on this and most people seem more interested in it for an emitter swap and fitting with an aspheric lens.