Hello. I need a light for walking my dog at night
It need to be at least 300,000 lumens for at least an hour, but less could be ok. And zooming. Zooming is very useful. Budget is 15$. I’m using a bengmxj from Amazon, and it was ok, but it broke fast. So it needs to be USA made. Absolutely nothing Chinese, or else it will break fast like the last one
Yeah… This light doesn’t exist. 300,000 lumens for an hour? Under $15? Nothing like that exists in that price range. And the ones that can sustain 300,000 lumens for an hour are ones that you wouldn’t want to try to carry while walking your dog. It’s just as easy to carry your car on your shoulder as it would be to carry such a light.
Get a Wurkkos FC11C. It has plenty of light, you can get it for under $30, USB-C charging, 519a LED and a buck driver to help with battery longevity. It’s the perfect light for walking your dog (and then some)
Really? My old one did 980,000, and I often used it on mode 3, so it was around 300,000, and worked for an hour
Does the fc11c zoom? And I forgot to say, I want it just one mode and absolutely no strobe. My old one had me always need to click through modes, so if I can get one that just had the brightness I need, that would be great
Yeah… I have a very hard time believing it did 980,000. Especially in something handheld as a zoomy. It might have been advertised as that. But, it’s difficult to hit 9800 lumens and sustain that for 60 minutes. Especially without completely melting your hand after a few minutes. You might be able to sustain 980 lumens for an hour. But it’s still gonna be hot.
I could easily see 300 lumens for an hour.
FC11C is not a zoomy. But it’s a decent mix of flood and throw. And I guarantee it’ll be a much better light then most zoomies.
Search this site. You’ll find plenty of information, including beamshots of it.
The only zoom light I could recommend would be the Convoy.
How about this one ?
I love the size of it. And who has such a small phone?
Seriously though, I saw a post somewhere where sometime bought a light similar to this and when it came in it was about the size of an S2+
They forgot the decimal. It was actually 98.0000lm for 1hr.
I think this is what you want and it’s made in Japan!
You’re responding to what is clearly a joke post. Nobody could seriously think that this was really a thing.
Unfortunately, the company that sold you the light you currently own lied about the brightness. I can guarantee it is nowhere even remotely close to 980,000 lumens.
A common household light bulb produces about 800 lumens. Of course, it shines in all directions, so it is not easy to compare to a flashlight, but if you shine your flashlight at the ceiling to reflect light in all directions, does it seem as bright as if you room was lit by hundreds of regular lightbulbs, or about as bright as one lightbulb, or dimmer than 1 light bulb?
See this video for a tool reviewer who owns decent light testing gear and used it compare a variety of flashlights bought on Amazon with incredible lumen claims. Coincidentally, the “Childbot” light that he tested looks very similar to the “bengmxj” 980,000 lumen light I see on Amazon. He measured 1340 lumens in reality.
The big Wurkkos TS32 that he tested with very good performance is more than I expect you to need for walking a dog, and definitely far above your $15 budget.
The Wurkkos FC11 and FC11C (slightly more efficient version) mentioned in this thread would require you to increase your budget, but it should be similar brightness to the light you have, but smaller and better quality.
This isn’t a joke post. I thought amazon was than to lie to customers, and since I have bought a flashlight since before the turn of the millennium, I wasn’t really informed on these. Sorry if I offended you in some way
Hahaha! This is great! Might buy it for my nephew
Thank you for the info! I will look at it
To be fair, I wouldn’t say that Amazon lied to you.
An Amazon seller lied to you.
There are plenty of unscrupulous Amazon sellers that lie.
The same is true with eBay sellers and AliExpress sellers. 
I wasn’t offended at all. I just didn’t think it was a legitimate post. In fact, I could still be getting trolled hard, so I’m going to stop here.
Fair enough. I hope that amazon (and and the other platforms) take their head out of their asses and enforces what they sell. It’s shameful really
Welcome to BLF @Surprised_Pumpkin! Great to have you here. This just goes to show why i never trust a light’s ratings at face value, and look for reputable reviews and info here, along with a few other trusted sources. As your learn more about different emitters (leds), drivers, and batteries, you will start to have a way better feel for when the advertised specs are legit or just ridiculous. Either way, this is a great place to learn!
Thanks for welcoming me! (you too raccoon, forgot to say)
Some of these lights are just crazy. What are some good review websites?
