@isatnt3207 Super bright and cheap simply don't go together, unfortunately. I have had a couple knockoff lights claiming "10 million lumens" and they're somewhat bright, but there's no quality, they won't last. Just search by brands like: acebeam, olight, fennix, thrunite, imalent... there's more, but start there. As far as adjustable beam, in high end lights, you'll pay a lot for that. There are "throwers" which are more like spot lights, and "floods". My advice would be to get yourself a acebeam in the $100 price range, or something like the thrunite catapult v6 for under $100. Just see what a quality light feels like and how it works, and you'll never ask about cheap lights again. It's better to spent, 1, 2, or 300 dollars on one good flashlight that you'll have forever than to assemble a collection of cheap knockoff lights that won't work when you need them. Just be careful because it's addicting and you'll always want another one.
@isatnt3207 unfortunately there aren't alot of zoomable flashlights out there that are reliable since there usually made by cheap Chinese companies but the only one I could really recommend is the convoy Z1
I've delved into this and came out with a couple cheap olights and stream lights. But I am searching for the perfect headlamp which I've settled with black diamond for now.
Lols... Thats True... I Already Spend Thousands Bucks For A Lots Of Flashlight... I Just Stop My Intention To Buy $700 Imalent Flashlight After I Found That There Is No Replacement Battery In The Market...😅
And you'll have that key chain light for the rest of your life... lol. You get what you pay for, some people learn that sooner than other, it's an inescapable fact of life
Keep in mind , flashlight brands will advertise lumens like car audio amplifiers! 10k lumens on “turbo” mode but will ramp down to 5k lumens in about a minute! If that!😅
10k lumens is A LOT. A single emitter light can vary from 1000 (most of them) to at the most 5000 lumens (XHP70.3HI at 6V8A or smth). And if you didn't got a huge CPU heatsink with a fan slapped on after the MCPCB, you can't sustain that much power at all in any host. More lumens than 3000-5000 are meaning they got more than one emitter or they just straight up lying. I know there's tons of bad advertised one, but the good one is there if you can find. Welcome to r/flashlight.
The lumin level is way way way off ,, maybe 1700 or less ,, they are cheap POS. If you get that excited over that , get yourself a real flashlight, and be amazed
3700 in a light the size of a baseball bat? Pssh. I've got 3300 in one the size of a roll of quarters. If you're going to have a light that big that thing better be cranking out 5,000+ lumens. Those are rookie numbers, you better pump those numbers up 😂
Academy has a 10,000 lumen flashlight a picked up a while back it takes two days to charge but when I tell you this mf is bright I mean it is bright haha
Exactly the info in came to RU-vid for. A starting point to search from, from an enthusiast in the comments vs a generic Amazon top review. Literally about to look now lol
@@mad-croatian LED's (especially when run in high power lights) still put off a ton of heat, they just put out less heat than an incandescent bulb would at the same output. Imalent makes the highest powered flashlight in the world (at the moment) and it's LED and it puts out a TON of heat.
Just ordered a smaller tactical flashlight from Amazon and now I’m gonna go scoop one of these for the emergency gear incase 💩 ever hits the fan. Thanks
LED's and high discharge batteries have pushed flashlights to another level. I still remember the huge maglites that took like 4 D cell batteries. And we thought those were bright lol.
Probably. If it was purchased on Amazon, it's probably not true brightness. Amazon has loads of crazy high lumen claims but actually testing they're anywhere from 0.1% their claimed brightness to about 10% their brightness. Certain brands are accurate, but most headlamps top out at about 3,000 lumens.
Maybe it's me or my luck, but when I buy and use these hi-lumen flashlights, they get super hot very quickly. I end up on a lower setting. Defeats the object.
For use over time any flashlight will build heat, that's just the nature of the beast, and always has been with flashlights. Even older incandescent lights generate tons of heat (more per lumen than any modern light system) but we didn't have "high performing" incandescent lights like we do now for LED's and even LEP's (dive down that rabbit hole at your own peril to your wallet) The harder you run any kind of light the more heat it's going to build, better designs will have better ways of venting heat, but all of them will eventually get hot and even automatically step down in power in most cases. If you're going to be using over a prolonged period of time then high power is just not going to be sustainable, you're either going to have a lot of heat build up, or your going to need some form of active cooling like fans, which will cause more battery drain. Everything is a balance, the best thing you can do is try to find a flashlight whose "half" power satisfies your needs because half can be sustained much longer than full power, and you still have full power available in short bursts if you need it. More raw lumens will cause more heat buildup than high candela and candela is how far a beam will reach, so if you need reach but not necessarily a ton of power or want to avoid heat, then lower lumen & higher candela may be a combination you want to look at. Surefire's EDC "turbo" lights do this quite well with only about 700-800 lumens but 100,000 candela.
@@edermerol4066 adjustable or "zoomy" flashlights are just a gimmick, they're universally worse at both things than dedicated flood or spot light, and the zoom function just adds more parts to bind, break, or fail. No one that uses flashlight in any serious way uses "zoom" lights. Those are $15 gas station junk lights that they sell to people who don't know any better. And I'm not making fun of those people, I used to be one of them, and when I bought my first actually well-made flashlight it changed how I thought about lights entirely. I'd never use one of those junk lights again. If the zoomable flashlight does what you want then I'm happy for you, and for God's sake don't buy a higher end light because then you'll never be satisfied with the zoomy one ever again.
Check out the Wurkkos TS22. Its about the same price, 4500+ lumens, and WAYYYY smaller than this thing! Like you could fit it in your pocket along with a pocketknife no problem.
@abird5575 I have the IF23 and love that light too! However, the Wurkkos TS22 is a bit smaller just because it doesn't have that flat floodlight poking out on the side 👍
@abird5575 sofirn definitely stepped up their game, I buy jetbeam, klarus, thrunite, nitecore etc. Just got a imalent ld70 mini and I'm not impressed with it. Heavy and ugly honestly
You aren't telling the difference between those small amounts of lumens with the naked eye. You can tell the difference between a thousand and 10,000 sure but not 1500 to 2,200
I recently started buying brighter and brighter flashlights and now reading these comments I realized I've been sucked into it before I even knew it 😂😂😂
I bought the $80 BRAUN one from harbor freight 7000 lumens. It is super bright and the torque test channel actually did a test on it and showed it to really put out 7,000 lumens no joke
If a harbor freight flashlight does that, just imagine a high tier maker. It would be good to even the player field if you get pulled over at night for something bogus. Whoever taps out first loses. That should be written into law. Rock, paper, scissors is for kids
