Full Test Data on 50 of Our Flashlights

[Nightbird95]

@rdrfronty

@Nightbird95

Whoa! Thanx for posting this chart. This is a great help in deciding my next flashlight.

I know its too much to ask but a lot of us BLF members will also appreciate it very much if we can see beam shots of ‘big’ lights. :bigsmile:

That’s for sure in the plans. We’ve actually attempted to do some long distance shots the last two weekends, but the weather and our test equipment didn’t cooperate. We now have quite a group well over 100k, so doing shots that can really show their long throw starts getting a little trickier.
But they are coming.

Oh! That’s good to know. I’m looking forward to those beam shots. Thanx! :bigsmile:

[JohnnyMac]

Awesome job, guys!

[Chicago_X]

As others have said, this should be A STICKY !

Well done.

[nekdo12]

Keygos M10 so little lm? Underdriven?

[panthervision23]

I’m going to use this spreadsheet as my guide. Thanks for sharing.

[blueb8llz]

superb job fella’s. i also think should be stickied.
thanks alot for doing this for us.

[DENGOH]

Wow, that is a lot work and data. Awesome!

[rdrfronty]

@nekdo12

Keygos M10 so little lm? Underdriven?

Yes we were really disappointed with that too. And it was purchased directly from Keygos. Just a weak driver compared to the ke5.

[manxbuggy1]

@nekdo12

Keygos M10 so little lm? Underdriven?

After receiving and being so impressed with my Keygos KE-5, I was very disappointed in the out put of my M10. It is a very nice looking light but very under driven. Believe it or not these numbers are with a fully charged King Kong 26650.

[MRsDNF]

Orsm work as usual guys. Your in trouble with a barrage off questions when my meter turns up.

[janko.hrasko]

awesome data, thanks for your hard work!

[sorotantaz]

very contributing and helping works.

many thanks,rdrfronty! :)

[Tom_E]

This is awesome to see results like this posted - this should be stickied, front paged, etc., something to use as an on-going reference. Glad to see our numbers matching up so well - I tend to test with hot batteries so my numbers are pretty much to-the-max.

The HD2010 is capable of matching that de-domed T08 result, and the de-domed T13 I got, wow, also excellent at 155 kcd.

I'm regretting not mod'ing the battery carrier in your Shocker though - I'm seeing a nice boost of 100-125 lumens (maybe more) by soldering in copper braid in the springs, and also replacing the springs with stiffer ones from FFL or IOS. With the DRY driver, I actually measured over 4,100 lumens at start with Pana PD batteries, but it settles down to 3,900 or so after 30 secs, so can't maintain it well at that high amp level. But that's really sick when you think about it - over 1,360 lumens per emitter! Again, maybe not realistic with unprotected Pana PD's in there, but it does show the potential.

[falco]

Thanks a lot for putting this up. Very usefull reference.

[ImA4Wheelr]

Thank you for this excellent resource! Do you have a thread that A60 xpe2 mod? I looked at your account posts, but didn't see anything that would seem to cover it.

[manxbuggy1]

@ImA4Wheelr

Thank you for this excellent resource! Do you have a thread that A60 xpe2 mod? I looked at your account posts, but didn’t see anything that would seem to cover it.

You could pm Tom E. He usually did not do full build threads on his earlier mods but he could tell you exactly what he did to it. It as a fantastic thrower. I know that he put the IOS driver in it and added 7135 chips to it to bring it up to 2.8A and put an XP-E2 on sinkpad in it