I’m okay with the head being 1.5 inches wide. I’m not a fan of sharpie sized lights, I don’t care about weight either, but do want them to b remotely pocket sized.
I’m already aware of Zebralight sc700, convoy s21d, acebeam e75,e70, sofirn sc33, are there others?
I’m also aware that olight baton 3 pro max can do almost 700 lumens for almost 2 hours.
I’m not sure which graph is correct, but they’re both impressive. They could both be correct, if the ambient temp was vastly different (winter vs summer testing, for example.)
Edit: I forgot to mention the Sofirn SP33S. Another really good light for sustained brightness, at least in high mode and not turbo (as long as you’re OK with it being 26650. Some don’t like the girth.)
Ah, OK. I didn’t realize that the 70.2 and 70.3 were so different from each other (electricly speaking, the tint shift is clearly way worse on the 70.2.)
Those all use old drivers, mostly linear. The Lume X1 Is a highly efficient boost, same as in some (most?) newer FFLs.
Sustained brightness almost exclusively depends on the physical size/surface area of the host and the driver. And ofc on LED choice, but that’s a given.
As for the older Emisar lights, I see that the D4K even with the older boost driver manages about 850lm for over 2h with 4500K Nichia 519As. I’d guess getting the same platform but with the new Lume1 driver would bump that result a bit higher still