Amazing flashlight for only $150 with “PTD25” coupon at Neals Gadgets . I personally would rather this over the SR16 if you’re just wanting to experience almost 50K true lumens, that’s quite an impressive output for the price. The SR16 holds a higher sustainable output from its 2 fans and also the regulated driver. Still, having USB C/Power Bank and 21700 batteries is much better than the SR16 any day.
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Thanks for your review/video and all the beamshots!
Even though it’s quite a bit off from the claimed lumens, it still puts out a lot of light! According to your runtime graphs, it also is able to maintain 40.000+ lumens for up to a minute, which is also good to see. (Even though it drops of really sharply afterwards, but that is no surprise for a passively cooled flashlight with 40K lumens)
Also good to see that it can (shortly) keep up quite well with the SR16 (with both on turbo). Seems to have a bit less throw than the SR16, but it still reaches a long way.
All in all it seems like a good “lumen monster” for the price! Normally this would be more than I would like to spend on a single flashlight (certainly since I got no real life usecase for them/it), but this one almost gets me tempted! 
And that it doesn’t have a regulated driver isn’t much of an issue for me, since if I would buy it, it would purely be for the ‘wow-factor’ anyway.
Just got mine in 6500K.
As all my high drain cells (40T) are flat top, I need to use magnets to convert them. Just ordered some converters/spacers from Convoy, but I wonder if they add too much resistance?
Has anyone attempted to remove the reverse polarity protection spacer for it to accept flat tops?
Or should I order some button top P45B?
Haven’t been here in a while, but ive had issues with my haikelite hk08. About 2 weeks after i got it. The leds do not shut off. Very low moonlight. Unscrew batt. Screw in , their back on… nothing but taking away power makes em quit… Eventually they started flickering too… ive carefully tried disassembling light. Cant without brute force. If removed handle to see if thats the problem. Its sealed up, so i put back on. I use it every day. Its annoying. But i like the light. Wish it had a 8 battery option for longer runtimes… Thought about using blf gt battery tube somehow
Yup - I didn’t remove them, I just cut them down with a knife (sharp blade), it’s soft rubber so it was easy. The spacers are still there, but they’re short enough that my molicel P50B flat tops work.
I ended up just removing them entirely, which makes it work well with all cells. One just needs to be very careful with polarity.