Nightwatch Avaritia A54U - 22,000 lumens EDC flashlight!!!
With a warmed up MOLICEL P50B, the Nightwatch Avaritia A54Ultra is nearly 4000 lumens brighter than the previous record holder, the CYANSKY P50R…
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If they would just be honest about the performance of their flashlights… Its an impressive flashlight but they always lie
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They lie because there are no ramifications. There are no ramifications because there is no oversight.
Notice how something like this would never happen in the USA however US made lights cost a lot more.
Would you pay more money’s for a company to be more honest?
Ehh it happens everywhere. Same in the usa just look at all the proud usa made tools and power tools lying. Maybe not with flashlights but mist usa flashlights are customs so thats a comoletely different market segment. Also yeah id pay more if they were honest because then i would buy the flshlight. But im never buying a flashlight from this company because i think its too shady that every product advertises much more than it can actually do.
No way, not in the USA. Company would go out of business or the regulators would shut it down.
I wish… But never the less ~16K lumens from a small single cell light is quite impressive.
Nightwatch in particular is one of the worst worh fibbing specs. The A15 advertised 94,000 but i only got a hair over 60,000. The NI03S said like 17 or 18000, but i think peak was 13000 and some change (still, it’s still the brightest single cell flashlight in existence per my testing). Not surprising. I tested the A54u also and will have it ready shortly.
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I’ve just measured the Xiaomi Mijia 1000 lumens light. It measured 1140 lol.
P50B is not the highest performance 21700 cell. Try with a JP40.
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Ah yes, corporate America is well known for it’s honesty… 
I take the opinion that false advertising lawsuits happen because companies tried to deceive, rather than proof that the US has a good mechanism to prevent deception. The deception is more subtle than adding an additional couple of 0’s onto the output, I’ll concede that simple lying about facts largely isn’t possible in western markets.
Back on topic: has anyone calculated the efficiency of this thing at full chat? Must be sub-70lm/w??
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The difference between the US and China is that the Chinese government promotes corruption in business. The biggest counterfeiting in the world exists in China and the Chinese government does nothing to stop it. Its been this case for decades. So Chinese flashlight companies, especially the smaller ones love the idea of exaggerating lumens to sell more lights.
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It pulled 49 amps at the tail, so probably a bit more than that. Output per my testing on the stock cell was just shy of 14,000 Lumens. 3v x probably 54 amps is around 85lm/w. That’s a rough estimate.
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I can get hold of an Eve 21700, which should beat the P50B.
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You’re right on. JP40 strikes again, my just-arrived A54U, with AM04 battery, a twin of the JP40:
Turbo turn-on, measured w/ Texas Ace lumen tube:
Molicel P45B: 15000 lm (about same as @The_Flashaholic’s number 14672)
AM04: 17270 lm
Did you read THIS ?
I wonder if the “real” JP40 would actually be any better. I think my light (A54U) should be here in the next day or so. I did get some JP40 cells. Too bad I have no way of testing output… But it is nice to know that the thing may get over 17K lumens with the cells that I bought.
Now I have. For my sanity I stopped reading after the first line “AM04 is a rewrap of the Ampace JP40.”
Yeah at least with my amateur testing of Turbo turn-on outputs, all 3 of my AM04’s are THE real thing. Consistently/repeatedly beat Nealsgadgets Mystery Lishen, Nightwatch XP45, and Molicel PB45 when tested with the most current-hungry single-21700 lights in my small collection: NS14R v2 (21300 lm) and now this A54U (17270 lm).
The latest rounds of defeated victims, now including 45XP:
Austin M. AM04: 17270 lm
Nightwatch 45XP 80A: 15650
Molicel P45B: 15000 (about same as @The_Flashaholic’s number 14672)
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The test report has results for the other wrapped versions of the JP40, the LT22710A and Ampace-wrapped. They’re all very close, same cell after all, but the AM04’s were a touch worse at high power levels where any differences are magnified.
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Try the EVE 40PL too…holds its voltage higher than the JP40 at 40A-100A after about 75sec - 20sec (respectively) in my testing. Under 40A or so the JP40 holds the slight edge.
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Looks amazing, they are really pushing what you can do with a small host. Sadly it’s not sustained but I’m still amazed by it. I’m really curious if someone did a long term review of the light after let’s say a year of use. You would think pushing the electronics this hard would lead them to overheating and frying themselves.
EDIT - WARNING: The Nightwatch Avaritia A54U’s built-in USB-C charging system is badly malfunctioned. It continues to charge the battery after the battery is full, resulting in dangerous over-charged battery voltage. One of my AM04 batteries showed 4.65V during charging, two other AM04 batteries completely stopped working (now showing 0.3V on my DMM).
Xpost - fun moment the outrageous output was recorded. Sorry $39 cost was only during Xmas sale. For size reference, the light next to it is Convoy M21B (with fantastic Nichia B35AM 4500k LED).
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