eBay 98kW LED flashlight (slightly exaggerated) with schematic 

I'm not buying any flashlight less than 1MW.

Brave to stick your hand straight into a 98kW beam.

I'm impressed that a 160mAh battery was able to power a 98kW beam for more than 20ms

"It's out. [snort]" It's the snort that really sells it.

If you really could get 98kW from an instrument that size, the National Ignition Facility people would like to hear from you! They could replace all those expensive lasers and initiate fusion with a bunch of pen lights.

Technical team: It's 98mW Marketing team: Let's do a clever "typo"

The fact that it required force to disassemble and didn't just fall apart actually puts it in the top tier of ebay torches

This deserves a BFI Award. Brute Force and Ignorance.

Assuming the LED drops 3V, then the battery must supply 32,667A. With a capacity of 160mAh, the light produces 98kW for 4.8μs. Very impressive, I think we can all agree.

My eyes still haven’t recovered from the mind blowing power of that torch

I must get one to point at my solar panels to charge my Tesla on a cloudy day.

Can I suggest a plumber's pipe cutter to cut through the next thin circular casing.

Brute Force and Ignorance™ would be a great name for a band.

"98 Kilowatts of disappointment". Me too. I wanted to see that irritating burnt squiggle made with the Temu gismo vaporised.

The 9 million mAh power bank would be the perfect complement for this 98 kW LED flashlight. They should start selling them as a combo.

The power of the sun in the palm of my hand

Ebay watts are on a slightly different scale to regular watts.

At 98kW that battery will last two-hundredths of a second. 😁

This flashlight is so powerful you should be careful about the recoil

I've used a 1/16 inch or 1.6mm drill bit held in a small pin vise, and I drill a small hole in the plastic. Then I screw a M3 or M2.5 by 6mm sheet metal screw into the hole I drilled. Now I have a 'handle' to grab onto with a pliers or dikes and give the plastic a strong pull. This allows getting inside to repair. 👍

Love clive's delicate little hands😊

This is just like those 300000 dB horns for sale on ebay and whatnot, enough power to completely decimate the entire universe and all of it's parallels tenfold in an instant for just 20 bucks! I wonder if one day these incredible ebay sellers will make a flashlight powerful enough to replace the sun when it dies in a billion years 🤔

The power the Chinese can squeeze from a battery is amazing! Many years ago I bought a 2KW PMPO audio amplifier. All that power was supplied through a 12V 1A power adapter!

Hey China, THANKS for the flashing mode on torches - thats what was so missing in the last 100 years and thanks for the 'economic' construction so that, despite it not havinbg an incandescent filament, if you drop it once the thing stops working permanently. Thanks, just THANKS!!!

As a rule, I NEVER buy flashlights with non-replaceable batteries. It's just landfill-bound in short order otherwise.

You're so good at brute force an ignorance. And peeling metal with circuit board trimers.

That J3Y transistor must contain some brand new super secret chinesium technology. Switching that awesome 98kW LED and not even getting warm... wow! 🤣

When the red charging LED is brighter than the actual flashlight, you know we have a winner! 💯

Exaggeration of capability surpassed absurdity many years ago, but still apparently increasing. I recall the days when it was possible to rely on the power output figures of music centre manuals, in Watts RMS. But then they changed it to peak to peak, and now it seems like they think of a number and add a few zeros. I bought two audio amps a couple of years ago, rated vaguely at 1200W. Recently while the covers were removed I checked the output transistors - which were rated at a more realistic 100W

Hello mister BigClive You call it "brute force and ignorance" I think the Danes call it "British craftsmanship".. 😂😋🤗♥️

Thank you Clive, today is a good day for a smile 😊

How does this come out? Pull. Oh, it's out. Not even the best that China has to offer, can match the power of a determined Scotsman! 😂

At 98,000 Watts , this should bring down enemy drones with ease ... ( ? ) ............... DAVE™🛑

Thank you so much for making videos of random china stuff. I love that so much! Even if I mostly know nothing much about the "Scheemmatics".

I love it when you throw subtlety out the window and put on your striped apron to dismantle things. They must have very small kilowatts in China.

Light sabre technology right here in 2024... Clive you are a lucky man. The Force is strong within you and your torch! 🌞 (What a bright guy!)

This surely comes from the same factory that also makes the infamous 600 dB car horns :-D

Only slightly? I best stick around for this one 🍿

I run an escape room and I want to have a system where shining a UV torch on a puzzle will give you more context to it, so rather than just explain everything to kids over a clue, they can look at a picture that is invisible to non-idiots. I wanted a way of building my own rechargable uv torches and that schematic is going to help me loads!

"Slightly exaggerated power rating" 🤣🤣

Love it when eBay sellers forget the µ before the W

I really likes flashlights and i love when you upload a flashlight video have a nice week Clive.

I needed a torch last night. Walked across the living room and stubbed my foot on a metal trident. It was a toe sting fork.

May the force be with you,Clive...

I’m holding out for the 98MW version.

"Prepare the Photonic Cannon!"

Wow, I can't believe you didn't put on appropriate PPE before handling that death beam. What are those power wires made of? A new superconductor material of unknown origin ?

Very nice video, I enjoyed the humour you added.

A beam of 98Kw of light is what you see when Aliens beam you up into there flying saucer.

I have a fairly similar one. Got one for my gran and was impressed at the £4 price point. Mine does have the obligatory SOS mode when you hold the button in. Pretty bright too, was using it to find my way to a rave in the middle of a forest. might see if I can change the battery out with one or two of my street lithium cells.

I recently bought one of those radio transmitter kits, it was advertised as having a 50 milliwatt output but when it turned up it stated 50MW in the specs on the construction sheet that came with it. It's a real feat of engineering how much it's little output transistor is capable of, I will have offcom kicking my front door in with fifty million watts and an eye watering electric bill.

"It's brighter than the sun, Lynn!"

So, if it gets any rain on, or in it, it'll never come out agian, great!... Nothing to stop it getting twisted and snapping the wires to the led off the board either 160mah?still 16 times bigger than what was in my smart meter!

I feel your level of sarcasm has risen to another level. 😂 i like it.

It's 10 times the power of my electric shower 🤣🤣🤣🤣

If I'm not mistaken the most powerful commercially-available "flashlight" is something like 1kW, is much larger, and has cooling fans. 98kW is an order of magnitude than even styropyro would do.

Wow that's really powerful !

I have a similar, yet grossly less powerful lamp and unintentionally disassembled the sliding focusing bit in in a similar forceful manner. This also detached the led wires from the board. I was able to remove the cell via inertia(this involved the wires from it being torn off as well) and used a wooden dowel to punch the switch/charge end cap out from the inside without damage. After all the bits were extracted and connections repaired the light was reassembled and continues to function to this day.

These lumen specs are like the range in a Tesla. But, I just purchased a Lumintop® GT4695 flashlight recently and remembered your video. If you get your hands on one, you might enjoy the advancements in their circuitry and design.

I had a great laugh at the power of that amazing flashlight. Given that 100kW laser systems are used to cut metal, etc., and are the size of a large pick up truck. I’m just impressed by the micro miniaturization that they obviously managed to accomplish. 😂

That's pretty close to interest territory of Photonic Induction!

"It's out..." Excellent!

1:36 Bro used bruteforce Attack And all guys were like, yeess, me too

It's a shame we didn't get a measurement of the current through the LED, because I suspect it's not even 98mW!

Thank you for showing a way to open this lamp! Now I know how to open my lamp without damage ... hopefully. The charging is medium smart. Over the 100 Ohm Resistor there is a current flow and this activates the transistor. With one pin it measures the voltage and if this is ~4.2V the pin which is going to the base of the transistor is switching to GND, so the current flow stops. Stupid is, that there is no current limitation, only the limitation of the power-supply and the wiring. With 160mAh there is very easy a overcurrent and very fast charging. Not good. It is worth to open this device.

I'd advertise it as a 0.098 MW light. :)

i love it how big clive draws the lil arrows out of the LEDs like =3

I'd bought three copies of a single-AA-cell flashlight from a local store, a few years ago, and had to modify ALL of them because they didn't have a wide enough beam. Fortunately, all metal, so I just needed to unscrew the ring holding the front lenses on, slide a ring made of aluminum wire in behind the LED's backplate, and close everything back up again. Now my only complaint is how dim it gets when the battery gets halfway used...

I was looking forward to a maximum power test on the LED. Just to see what the max sustained power it could handle was. I suspect the controller PWM limits the current.

The way you open some of these items reminds me of those old fashioned tin cans that have a "wingnut" that you twist to peel away a metal strip to open the can.

Cannot say i am surprised, i got ripped off buying one of these supposedly (light up the side of a building or the whole street type mag light). Seemed like a good idea, as i use a rudementry version as my pushbike headlight. Can only be better? or so i thought. What turned up is in fact a mini light, suitable for a handbag maybe to help you see your keyhole, but also no return address, well only in Chinese, nothing in image to show scale, the advertised one at £17:00 looked great for what i wanted, but shown as being larger than the user's hand, whereas mine is about 2 inches long, no adjustment other than, on flash, S.O.S. so relegated to bedside table in case of power cut.

It's actually quite clever industrial design.

Our local Heritage Railway at Christmas time runs the Pola Express theme and the company who runs it gave away flash lights almost the same as your flash light and I have one. It has a main light and a side LED light. So press button once it's main beam with a siding bit to focus the light. Press twice and it strobe light. Press three and it's the side light. It only has about 50 minutes of light before I have to recharge it. But it was a free

THAT CASING STARTED TO FAINT WHEN IT SAW YOU COMING!!!

Maybe it's 98kW EIRP (Equivalent isotropic radiated power), incandescent equivalent, using whatever method they use to rate shop vac motors at 6.5 horsepower? In other words, what is the power of an incandescent bulb that shines in all directions with the same brightness as the focused beam of the flashlight, but at initial power on when the filament is cold and draws more power?

Clive, you missed the mode that completely discharges the batteries in one attosecond to produce the 98kW pulse . . . do not use unless you want to be near an explosion and/or receive massive!!!!! radiation burns.

Perhaps the space for the extra LED near the charging indicator is to hold an LED to indicate the power is on. If the company may use the board for more than product then the need for such an indicator may be required. An LED to tell tell the user that a flashlight is turned on would seem to be rather redundant. (Unless the flashlight was emitting non visible light, such as infrared.)

I always wondered if a good quality cell would kill the LED as it packs a "little bit" more punch into the circuit when powered on. I have several cheap USB rechargeable lights, just like that, for emergency. They do their job well, even after a few years, but I wonder if the LED current limit is done by the usage of 800mAh 18650 cells 😊

Hi Clive, Great video as always. I must admit to liking these little torches and have quite a few. I was wondering if you could help me find some good quality solder wire leaded at a decent price. Most of the cheap solder on eBay is crap (sludgey and dull with a high melting temperature), but the quality solder wire seems outrageously expensive at over £50.00 or more for a 500 Grams Reel. Do you know a source of decent priced quality Solder Wire? Many thanks Clive. Keep well and stay safe, Joe

You need to get a c-clamp style tubing cutter, like what's used for copper pipe. That would make short, clean work of things like this.

Wow you could see that beam from the moon!

They're using it like their money conversion. 98,000 yen = 1 cent. 😂😂😂

I bought this exact torch but in black. It was reasonably cheap, but not cheap enough. I bought a Sofirn SC18 at the same time and I will say I the Sofirn is *amazing* value for money, while with this thing I felt was terrible value. I, of course took mine apart too. Managed to get the end cap out by leveraging from the charge port.

Amazing 98kW didn’t vaporize your work bench!

In the title, Chinese exaggeration meets British understatement.

I would have liked a close up look at the LED itself. These high power LEDs are expensive and worth a closer look.

Brute force and ignorance. I love it.

So, the 160 mAH battery discharges entirely in something like 1/100 second? That would be ... exciting.

It's a shame it didn't come in your trademark fetching pink.

That would've been my Blue Peter drawing of future tech, lipstick sized, pocket torch with an output of 98kW (lasting several hours) that would illuminate an entire field. Useful for the police ....

Not surprised, when you can also buy a pocket sized car jumpstart pack rated at 10000A :D

Finally! A weapon to surpass Metal Gear!

I have a small torch that defaults to lowest setting, which means I do not flashbang myself on shiny metal parts!

It's a typo. It was supposed to be a "m" not a "k" 😂 98kW -> 98mW

Was that a glitch-in-the-Matrix 'one moment, please' at 1:34? I've got a couple of similar-ish torches to these, but that take a single AA. They also show a very sharp LED pattern when zoomed out. Mine aren't 98kW though. I think you must have stopped down the camera to f1024 or something otherwise it'd be Day of the Triffids tomorrow for us all!

When did LEDs begin rated in watts instead of lumens? +1 for the snort.

Amazon has a huge number of misrepresented flashlights of varying degrees of quality. Sometimes you'll get lucky and get a decent flashlight, but the odds are stacked against you. Generally their components are very similar to the one you took apart in this video. A "high power" grid LED connected to a minimalist circuit and a poor quality lithium battery all stuffed in a cylindrical case. Some of the flashlight cases are quite decent quality in order to give a better feel and appearance to the flashlight. The brightness is generally on the order of 1000 lumens. The postings, however, will claim 100k to 1 million lumens. The posting will also almost always over-estimate the battery capacity to sometimes absurd levels. This problem also applies to lasers listed on Amazon. However, in the case of lasers, this is very dangerous. Also, unlike the flashlights, the misrepresentation can often be an under-representation rather than over. This means that a green LED laser will claim a Class 2 "safe" < 1mW rating, while actually being dangerously high. This is because, like the flashlight circuit you disassembled, there is no current regulation going to the LED. I have a class 3 25mW green laser off Amazon that, at full charge, is close to 500mW and _will_ injure eyes across a gymnasium.

It does amuse me when eBay sellers quote silly numbers. Can you imagine the cooling required for a 98kW LED.

It’s so refreshing seeing a RU-vidr gain over 1M subscribers through knowledge and not through just being plain dumb. I caveat that by saying the first one I saw was of you eating a Fray Bentos pie 🥧😂🤣

I've broken several of those blue-handle "can openers", the blade snaps and whizzes off at great velocity. Wear your eye protection!