Olight M2R Pro Warrior is another well known and very popular EDC. It remains one of my favorite walk lights because of its warm tone (CCT 4900k) and it doesn’t blind people walking in opposite direction. The optic is very well chosen by Olight: hotspot of Olight is wide (important to me for a walk light) and spill is dimmer than my lights with smooth reflectors, but not too bad. Just because I find it interesting, I reposted IF22a’s beamshot here so we could compare how the two TIR optics result in such different beamshots, and hence different purposes for the 2 lights. IF22a being an all-out thrower, Olight a more balanced all-purpose light.
Based on results against other lights so far, it’s obvious comparison with Wurkkos TS30S will be like bringing a knife to a gun fight. What the Olight does have is a nice warm tone, very rare for the throwy light (Another thrower with a warm tone? Convoy’s great M21F and M21E with Getian GT-FC40 4500k). Other than the warm color, it’s no fight at all as Wurkkos overwhelms Olight wrt brightness and throw.
Speaking of warm tone, while it doesn’t show here, the SBT90.2 LED beam color is warmer than Sofirn IF22a and Nitecore MH12S, both @ 6500k which is a very harsh blue, too harsh for my taste. The SBT90.2’s warmer tone is a pleasant surprise, very obvious with back to back comparison, and I love it. SBT90.2 is not as warm as Olight, and no Nichia when it comes to CRI, but heading in the right direction. I believe the CCT was measured to be around 5100k-5600k by djozz in this post here but not sure if it’s the same LED as what Wurkkos uses.
