Bigwilly
Flashlight Enthusiast
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- Jun 14, 2014
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Wow that sux about your K40vn. Mine seems average but has really nice tint. However my K40Mvn was strong. I met up with a fellow CPF'r and comparing them, mine noticeably brighter. We even traded batteries and it made no difference.610k vs 550 k you wouldn't be able to tell the difference for sure. As for lumens, same deal. Some led just do better than others but in practice it take a huge difference to be able to be very noticeable.
One other point to note, I was measuring lux with my phone, and got some rather disappointing numbers from a k40vn I had, even though it seemed like a great performer. It also had a slightly green tint. So I sold it. Turns out that later on after doing some 'tree searching' with it and a bunch of other lights, it threw further than any other light I had owned up to that point because it illuminated a tree that no other light I had would reach.
So the numbers from my phone app lux meter are rather unreliable. I got rid of possibly the best k40vn ever built because of my phone app lux meter. My brother's best friend owns it now and is extremely happy with it which makes me happy cause he uses it all the time and is always raving about it. So it's still a win in my book.
I was thinking that the difference on the X60vn wouldn't be really visible. When do you think there would be a difference...... for example say my X60vn is 6300 lumens and 550k lux and yours is 6800 and 650k, would that be a big enough difference to discern? Or would it have to be a larger gap?