Today, I received the Thorfire VG15 provided by Thorfire for review. This is my first review.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B011E9N480
The flashlight comes in a cardboard box with a lanyard, spare tailcap plunger, spare o rings, spare lens, spare led centering ring and a wrist strap.
The flashlight is listed as 1.6 lumens to 800 lumens across 4 modes with a hidden strobe mode.
With 3 seperate batteries tested, in order of a generic blue laptop pull, Efest Imr 30A and a Sony VTC4, amp draw at the tailcap was as follow’s
Moon 0.00/0.00/0.00
Low 0.25/0.3/0.33
Medium 0.82/0.96/1.11
High 2.04/2.63/3.05
The driver is 17mm with a brass retaining ring and the tailcap switch is an Omten switch with a brass retaining ring. There appears to be a light ar coating on the glass lens. The reflector is a light OP reflector. I don’t have the tools to remove the front bezel to get into the led. Square cut threads both top and bottom, lubed threads, tailstands if required and the crenalated bezel makes sure that you don’t set it down and forget it is on.
All in, a nice little edc flashlight with a fairly tight pocket clip, nice ano, good modes and ok output for its size.
Thorfire are starting to get some good reviews for good reasons. They are a fairly new company to BLF but I hope they continue to stick around and it will be good to see how their flashlight range expands over time.
Keep the quality at a high standard Thorfire and I think you will start to see some more customers here at BLF.
While doing the teardown, some of the components looked familiar. I decided to do a size comparison next to the much loved Blf X6 SE. The Omten switched tailcap of the Thorfire works on the X6. The battery tube of the X6 fits the Thorfire. The thorfire tube doesn’t fit the X6 though.The pocket clip and rear tailcap are pretty much identical.