Jmpaul320 OTF Lumen Sphere Readings & throw measurements!

[Skylumen]

So, 40 pages in... and what I'd like to know is what is Vinh's and jmpaul's single favorite light out of all the ones that you have built/modded or tested? If you had to pick just one... which would it be?

S6330vn and 6XLvn/6XPvn

 

[JasonJ]

Interesting Vinh. That zebra light S6330 looks like a great flood light!

 

[Skylumen]

Interesting Vinh. That zebra light S6330 looks like a great flood light!

Opps I forgot about the M43vn

 

[jmpaul320]

So, 40 pages in... and what I'd like to know is what is Vinh's and jmpaul's single favorite light out of all the ones that you have built/modded or tested? If you had to pick just one... which would it be?

sc62w, s6330vn is great too since it has the same ui, but I like keeping lights in my pocket

 

[JasonJ]

An interesting few choices guys! Seems Vinh, you prefer multi-emitter lights... Any reason why, perhaps the greater output of light, more floody and useful?

I like the wide range of outputs that the sc62w has.. very versatile; I may need to look at one of those in the future. Looks like it would be quite durable as well.

 

[Skylumen]

I love single emmiter lights more actually. Those just happenes to be multi.

I love the c22cvn tx25c2vn d25cn ld02vn v11rvn sl2cvn...

 

[crashunit007]

I really love this list you did for us JMPaul320, and think it should be sticky'ed since I look at it almost all the time, and hope you keep adding to it, even stock lights, since I have a lot of Ultrafire's and other China lights I wished I knew what the real Lumen rating was.

 

[Bigwilly]

I really love this list you did for us JMPaul320, and think it should be sticky'ed since I look at it almost all the time, and hope you keep adding to it, even stock lights, since I have a lot of Ultrafire's and other China lights I wished I knew what the real Lumen rating was.

It is stickied on vinh's subforum. Also jmpaul320 has stepped back from the hobby. He sent his light sphere to vinh for him to test lights as he mods them. Many of us are grateful for all of his hardwork. I use the list as a huge aid in deciding what to buy as many do.

 

[Hammerdown]

Jmpaul320. No lux reading on the X3 because?

 

[MaxBeam]

Hey guys I have an important announcement:

A change is in order and it is time for me to personally move on from this hobby... maybe not move on completely - but a big change needs to happen. I have really just been slowly losing interest over the last 6 months or so and I really feel the need to simplify my collection and move on from testing lights. I sold around $2000 worth of lights last October... I thought I would end up reinvesting the $ in newer lights but I just seemed to lose interest.

Don't worry! I am working out a deal with vinh to sell him my sphere so that he may take over testing. I will help him get it set up and everything so yall get your lumen fix!

I still plan on visiting the forum and chatting with everyone here as I have made some great friends. Who knows, maybe in the future a light will really tickle my fancy and I might get back into things.

I will be putting up a bunch of discounted lights for sale soon if anyone is interested (you can shoot me a PM if you like or just wait for a WTS thread to go up in the marketplace) X60mvn loaded, mm15vn, s6330vn, c22cvn quad, d40avn to name a few... oh yeah and I have a TON of brand new batteries. My goal is to get down to 5 lights or less!

Not sure where I will go from here... maybe I will get back into cars or something else... but I have had so much fun with flashlights over the last 3 years and I have met some great people

Jmpaul320. No lux reading on the X3 because?

Hammerdown. Jmpaul320 announced his retirement from this thread on June 9th.

 

[Hammerdown]

Oh well I don't keep up to date but now I am thank you

 

[jmpaul320]

Jmpaul320. No lux reading on the X3 because?

This started off as a lumen testing thread only when I first built the sphere - later I bought a second light meter and started measuring throw as well. Some of the lights were sold before I could measure throw (the x3).

 

[jorgemac]

Re: Actual Lumen readings from my integration sphere

Hi Jmpaul. Do you have the Thrunite TN32vn measurement?
Thanks.

 

[MaxBeam]

Re: Actual Lumen readings from my integration sphere

jorgemac,

Jmpaul320 has retired from active management of this thread.

 

[jmpaul320]

Re: Actual Lumen readings from my integration sphere

Hi Jmpaul. Do you have the Thrunite TN32vn measurement?
Thanks.

this is one light I actually never owned/tested - should be in the 1400 lumen / 500-600kcd range though (as it is very similar to the tn31mb from osts)

 

[InfinitusEquitas]

Re: Actual Lumen readings from my integration sphere

this is one light I actually never owned/tested - should be in the 1400 lumen / 500-600kcd range though (as it is very similar to the tn31mb from osts)

Around 500kcd - this is based on owning two TN31's which are essentially the same light, save the blingy heatsink.

 

[nuts4cree]

Newbie here: Thank you, thank you, thank you for these objective readings. You just saved me some moolah .. was about to buy based on mfg's claimed specs, until I saw this.

Can I flatter you by calling you the "FoodBabe" (yeah, the famous research gal who recently made me change all my beer-buying habits) of flashlights?

 

[starstern]

Here are some lumen readings!

Throw is measured at 8 meters and calculated back to 1 meter.

4sevens X3vn 4500k dome on
Sony vtc26650 50a
2294@ turn on
2070@ 30sec
159 low

4sevens X10vn 12 x XPL
Efest 26650
4045 Turbo @ turn on
3079 Turbo @ 30 sec
2636 High
913 Mid
248 Low
39 Low 2
Throw - 2,500 Lux

Acebeam Ec32vn Drivervn XPG2 PDT
Sony vtc
742 Turbo @ turn on
703 Turbo @ 30 sec
591 High
300 Mid
31 Low
0.2 Low 2
Throw - 40,000 Lux

Acebeam K40Lvn XPL PDT
Sony vtc
1735 Turbo @ turn on
1670 Turbo @ 30 sec
1174 High
718 Mid
294 Mid 2
20 Low
0.46 Firefly
Throw - 446,000 Lux

Acebeam K40Lvn XPG2 PDT
Sony vtc
848 Turbo @ turn on
830 Turbo @ 30 sec
574 High
356 Mid
146 Mid 2
20 Low
0.43 Firefly
Throw - 431,000 Lux

Ace Beam K60vn XHP70 dome shave
sony vtc5
4554 Turbo @ turn on
4280 Turbo @ 30 sec
3628 High
1735 Mid
705 Low
60 Low2
0.40 Firefly
Throw - 230,000 lux

Ace Beam K60vn XHP70 stock light
sony vtc5
4998 Turbo @ turn on (ACEBEAM WAS CLOSE with 5000 lumen!)
4711 Turbo @ 30 sec
4110 High
1983 Mid
842 Low
99 Low2
0.40 Firefly
Throw - 194,000 lux

Ace Beam T25vn XHP50 dome shave
keep power 26650 imr
2688 Turbo @ turn on
2597 Turbo @ 30 sec
2002 High
1030 Mid
79 Low
0.42 Firefly
Throw - 117,000 lux

Armytek Wizard Pro Warm Wide
Samsung 20r
594@ turn on
581@ 30 sec
284 high
132 medium
72 medium 2
28 low
3.65 firefly 1
0.47 firefly 2

Armytek Wizard Pro 90 CRI
Samsung 20r
444@ turn on
431@ 30 sec
265 high
118 medium
56 medium 2
32 low
4.18 firefly 1
0.78 firefly 2

Convoy S3 3x XPG2 R4 5A1 5.8a
Samsung 20r
1414@ turn on
1321@ 30 sec
462 med
59 low
3 firefly

Convoy S3 3x Nichia 219b 5.8a
Samsung 20r
1401@ turn on
1279@ 30 sec
448 med
57 low
3 firefly

Courui D01 stock (modding soon)
Protected Pfs
826 @ turn on
786 @ 30 sec
197 low
Throw - 104,000 lux

Eagleye X2vnT XML2 PDT
Samsung 20r
1208@ turn on
1080@ 30 sec
346 mid
2 low
Throw - 18,000 Lux

Eagleye X6vnT XPG2 PDT
Samsung 20r
830@ turn on
770@ 30 sec
557 mid
130 low
Throw - 100,000 Lux

Eagleye X6 BLF special edition 3.5a XML2 neutral white 3c
Samsung 20r
915@ turn on
865@ 30 sec
549 high
238 mid
6 low
Throw - 25,000 Lux


Eagletac D25cvn XPL 4000k drivervn
Kinoko IMR
1044@ turn on
912@ 30sec
403 high
150 mid
44 low
11 low 2
0.14 firefly
Throw - 9,300 Lux


Eagletac D25cvn XPG2 PDTc 4000k drivervn
Kinoko IMR
652@ turn on
596@ 30sec
237 high
85 mid
25 low
6 low 2
0.13 firefly
Throw -24,000 Lux

Eagle Tac M25C2vn KT XML2-U3 PDT
Samsung 20r
1126@ turn on
1130@ 30 sec
419 mid
61 low
Throw - 265,000 lux

Eagle Tac M25C2vn XPG2 PDT
Samsung 20r
816@ turn on
783@ 30 sec
Throw - 343,000 lux

Eagle Tac M25C2vn Turbo head XML2 PDT
Sony vtc5
1257@ turn on
1175@ 30 sec
814 high
578 mid
170 low
53 low2
Throw - 580,000 lux

Eagle Tac M25C2vn Turbo head XPG2 PDT
Sony vtc5
783@ turn on
754@ 30 sec
228 low
Throw - 775,000 lux

Eagle Tac MX25L3Cvn 6x XPG2 PDTn
Samsung 20r
2949@ turn on
2766@ 30 sec
921 mid
206 low
5 firefly
Throw - 135,000 Lux

Eagle Tac MX25L3Cvn 6x XPL dedome
Samsung 20r
4724@ turn on
4476@ 30 sec
1579 mid
509 low
5 firefly
Throw - 105,000 Lux

Eagletac MX25L4vn XML2 PDT
Sony vtc
1305 Turbo @ turn on
1272 Turbo @ 30 sec
587 High
130 Low
Throw - 515,000 Lux

Eagletac s200c2vn XML2 PDT Direct Drive single mode
Samsung 20r
1266@ turn on
1227@ 30 sec
Throw - 153,000 Lux

Eagletac s200c2vn XML2 PDT
Samsung 20r
1063@ Turn on
1024@ 30 sec
290 mid
16 low
Throw - 123,000 Lux

Eagletac S200c2vn 9x XPL
Samsung 20r
3628 Turbo @ turn on
3171 Turbo @ 30 sec
1262 High
395 Mid
60 Low
Throw -11,000 Lux

Eagletac Sport TAC triple Nichia 219
2x protected ncrb
Measured on 2x 18650 in solarforce host with UCL
652@ turn on
626@ 30 sec
3x cr123 is approx 7% higher

Eagletac Tx25c2vn V1 XML2 PDT
Samsung 20r
975@ turn on
963@ 30 sec
333 mid
16 low
Throw - 55,000 Lux

Fenix PD35vn 3x XPL Fiat Lux
Samsung 20r
1306@ turn on
1198@ 30 sec
786 high
184 mid
48 low
10 firefly

Fenix LD60vn XML2 U2 stock led dedome
Samsung 20r
2832@ turn on
2727@ 30 sec
1040 mid
49 low
3 firefly
Throw - 154,000 Lux

Fenix LD75Cvn stock led dedome
Sony vtc5
4750@ turn on
4684@ 30 sec
2165 high
770 mid
246 low
44 low2
128 red led
248 white led
266 blue led
159 green led
Throw - 143,000 Lux

Fenix TK61vn PDT
Samsung 20r
1465@ turn on
1434@ 30 sec
707 high
282 mid
51 low
Throw - 612,000 lux

Fenix Tk61vn V1.9 prototype
Samsung 20r
1630@ turn on
1554@ 30 sec
920 high
531 mid
189 low
Throw - 741,000 lux

Fenix Tk61vn50 driver vnx
Sony vtc5
3066@ turn on
3040@ 30 sec
1140 high
74 mid
8 low
Throw - 460,000 lux

Fenix Tk75vn 5000k XML2 dome on
Samsung 20r (retested with vtc5, no increase)
3745@ turn on
3765@ 30sec
2441 high
958 mid
75 low

Fenix Tk75vn XML2 PDT KT burn in edition
Sony vtc5
3184@ turn on
3158@ 30 sec
1598 high
611 mid
17 low
Throw - 341,000 Lux

Fenix Tk75vn70 XHP70
Sony vtc5
10,282@ turn on
9082@ 30sec
4528 high
328 mid
38 low
Throw - 107,000 Lux

Fenix Tk75vn50 XHP50
Sony vtc5
8299@ turn on
7699@ 30sec
2949 high
101 mid
18 low
Throw - 138,000 Lux

Fenix Tk75vn77 DriverVNX2
Sony vtc5
21530@ turn on
19573@ 30 sec
15697 high
5428 mid
63 low
Thrown - 11,000 lux


Fenix TK35UEvn Dome on
Samsung 20r
2362@ turn on
2499@ 30 sec
1494 high
517 mid
56 low

Fenix TK35vn de-domed
Samsung 20r
983@ turn on
985@ 30 sec
658 high
223 medium
27 low
Throw - 95,000 lux

Fenix PD12vn de-domed
Aw Imr & kinoko imr
591@ turn on (stock pd12 dome on does 800 on IMR)
560@ 30 sec (stock pd12 dome on does 765 on IMR)
27 low
15
Throw - 15,000 lux (stock is around 4,000 lux)

Fenix PD35vn PDTc
988@ turn on (sony vtc5)
943@ 30 sec (sony vtc5)
Throw - 29,000 lux

893@ turn on (samsung 20r)
866@ 30 sec (samsung 20r)
Throw - 25,400 lux

923@ turn on (LG D1 4.35v)
882@ 30 sec (LG D1 4.35v)
Throw - 27,000 lux

548 high
60 low
12 firefly
(all lower modes the same regardless of battery)

Fraz light - Stock XML2 (TIR optic)
Sony VTC 50A 26650 (same results as regular ICR)
1002 @ turn on
992 @ 30 sec
Throw - 15,000 Lux

Fraz light - De-domed XML2 (TIR optic)
Sony VTC 50A 26650 (same results as regular ICR)
780 @ turn on
776 @ 30 sec
Throw - 11,000 Lux (no increase in throw due to TIR optic)

Fraz light vinh modified - XPL 5000k
Sony VTC 50A 26650 (same results as regular ICR)
681 @ turn on
709 @ 30 sec
Throw - 11,000 Lux (no increase in throw due to TIR optic)


Jax Z1 XML2 U3 dome on
Sony vtc 26650
1336 Turbo @ turn on
1287 Turbo @ 30 sec
483 High
72 Mid
6 Low
Throw - 94,000 lux

Jax Z1 XML2 PDTn
Sony vtc 26650
1143 Turbo @ turn on
1078 Turbo @ 30 sec
403 High
59 Mid
3 Low
Throw - 151,000 lux

Jax Z1 SBT70
Sony vtc26650
2150 Turbo @ turn on (about 100 more lumen with efest 26650)
1762 Turbo @ 30 sec (about 100 more lumen with efest)
692 High
99 Mid
2 Low
Throw - 125,000 lux

Jax MTG2 Dome on v1 - still under development
Sony vtc26650
3132 Turbo @ turn on
718 Turbo @ 30 sec
Throw - 43,000 lux

Jax MTG2 Dome on v2
Sony vtc26650
2740 Turbo @ turn on
2735 Turbo @ 30 sec
2218 Turbo @ 60 sec
1195 high
116 mid
4 low
Throw - 41,000 lux


Jetbeam DDC25vn 4000k
Samsung 20r
861@ turn on
834@ 30 sec
140 low

Lumapower Strivevn 2x 4000k & 2x 5700k XPL
Efest 64a 26650
1959@ turn on
1840@ 30 sec
719 high
39 mid
3 low
Throw - 6,400 lux

Lumapower Strivevn XML2 PDTn
Efest 26650
1044@ turn on
985@ 30sec
380 high
23 mid
3 low
Throw - 47,000 Lux

Maxtoch SN6X-2X XML2 de-dome 7.5amps Tom E mod
Samsung 20r
1538@ turn on
1425@ 30 sec
626 mid
266 low
Throw - 358,000row ?

all this translates to which one hase the most throw power per meter ?