Anyone noticed this one on Kickstarter?
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zyntony/zyntony-torchtm-baddest-light-on-the-planet?ref=category
looks a little overpriced but nice idea, think I'll just make do with the Solarforce lantern on an L2.
Wow, for $70 I get a stick and a rag.
$175 for an actual flashlight.
I believe they are not using latticebright LEDs, right? :bigsmile:
"We worked with experts from the premier LED manufacturer to come up with LEDs that are not only bright but are warm, natural and easy on the eyes."
To be fair their system offers some control, cells, charging and outputting for other devices to be charged. Of course the exact quality of all those is unknown no matter of the claims.
Looks kind of cool, but also kind of expensive.
Yes, it looks cool. But I don’t get it, in the promotional video they show a guy water-skiing at daylight, but I can’t find a word about the runtime at specific modes (high) or the charging time.
how long before we see a chinese copy on bg or gb?
200,000 lumen 158,985,945mah! greatest illumination! much bright.
They only ship to US-customers.
What a pity! 
Sure, but 20 XT-E LEDs ($15,16 if you buy 4 5 Packs from FT), some controlling and a battery aren’t worth $165+.
Also, the light doesn’t loom that good - it looks a bit yellowish to me.
Besides that: Nice idea.
more like 5730 leds. lol 50pcs for less than 2$ lol.
I also believe it does not look that good (rather on the cheap side), however, if everything is of quality, the cells, the charger, the power adapter and the part that can charge other devices then this product is not over priced, after all there's, engineering fees, profit and taxes in that $165+$10shipping, but again it depends on the actual quality, rather than quantity of features, I guess I was/am assuming quality everything, but that may not be how it is in fact.
They look like some 3535LEDs if you look at the photos they show, probably XT-E as L4M4 says, even if due to how they look, I would guess them to be XB-D (smaller than 3535)
I like it, it does everything pretty well even to our standards, even the range from 4-4000 lumen is what we like over here. Personally for camping I would like it smaller, 1000lumen of leds and 1/4 of the batteries. And for a camping lantern I want AA alkaline compatibility, but you never get this performance with them of course.
3*26650 to get to 15k mah?
That must be the set-up
They also didn't include any of the more modern lanterns/flashlights in the comparisons. I have several LED lanterns that solve some on the "problems" they mentioned. Klarus RS 20 for example.
I personally do not care if the guys are USA, that still does mean the product does exactly what is specified to do, but I find this quadrant system quite nice. The are 4 quadrants but if you want power only to 2 for example you can still get the full power of 4000, which is nice, not what I was assuming to be only 2000lm.
I always thought that a lantern must have quadrants because you want it to output only 180deg light (or less) in case where you do not have a flashlight.
"The Torch is "limited" to 4000 total continuous lumens - if you can call that limited - which means 1000 lumens per quadrant. So, each quadrant is capable, by itself, of putting out an amazing 2000 lumens! This means:
4 quadrants x 1000 maximum lumens each = 4000 total lumens
3 quadrants x 1333 maximum lumens each = 4000 total lumens
2 quadrants x 2000 maximum lumens each = 4000 total lumens
1 quadrant x 2000 maximum lumens = 2000 total lumens"
This is the only mention of cells I see
"Zyntony uses special high-energy-density lithium ion batteries. We will offer spare Zyntony-branded batteries as an accessory. You can use any other 32650 size Li-ion batteries, but they may not last as long."
Well, if those are XT-Es (And by the loks I would say that) - 500 Lumens per LED are a bit high.
A XT-E in warm white has only 327lm at 1.5Amps - that would make a max 1635lm per quadrant, not 2000.