Brightest handheld LED flashlight

mestizobloke

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Hello everyone.

Out of curiosity I would like to know what is the brightest in lumens led flashlight that is out there commercially available, no mods. This topic has been brought out a few times but the threads were dated to many years ago and so in 2013 i kinda expect that there were some advances from many years ago. Thanks everyone.
 

eightballrj

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Depends on what you mean by handheld. You can hold a XM18 with one hand... but its kind of ridiculous at 15000 lumens and 12lbs. I think the more "reasonable" option is an Olight X6 Marauder at 5000 lumens. Beneath the X6 there are a ton of multi emitter lights in the 2000-3600 lumen range.
 

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Perhaps something a little smaller, Thrunite TN30 XM-L2 or Fenix TK75
 

mestizobloke

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Thanks for the replies guys. I was refering to flashlights that don't look like spotlights.
 

enomosiki

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A P60 host with insane heat dissipation capability and triple/quad XP-G2 drop-in.

Anywhere from 1,200 to 2,000 lumens.
 

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I keep dying to have somebody do a head to head comparison of TM26 vs new TN30 XM-L2, they've been mentioned in the same thread a few times but no head to head analysis
 

mestizobloke

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After searching around I found a "skyray" flashlight rated at 6000 lumens for about 70 dollars and i want to know if its any good since its much cheaper than led lensers and olights rated at 2000 lumens or above.
 

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After searching around I found a "skyray" flashlight rated at 6000 lumens for about 70 dollars and i want to know if its any good since its much cheaper than led lensers and olights rated at 2000 lumens or above.

It's very unlikely to be 6000 lumens. Many cheaper flashlight brands are known for heavily inflating their lumen numbers. It's probably more like 2000 lumens.
 

mestizobloke

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so the general consensus here is that the tm26 is the brightest in lumens commercially available LED flashlight (that looks like a flashlight) right now on earth?
 
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fireonhigh

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so the general consensus here is that the tm26 is the brightest in lumens commercially available LED flashlight (that looks like a flashlight) right now on earth?

yeah pretty much,but off world,well yeah, thats a whole nother story:D
 

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Its old, but the Fielong 2D80 360 csm is likely brighter when it works. Its a 360 csm is essentially 4 sst 90's on the same led board. The csm is capable of 6k lumens from what I understand, but likely less than that but still bright.
 

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Re: Lumens king

Eagletac SX25L3 is very compact for 2400 ANSI lumens.

It is a new single emitter LED.

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