With black Friday looming I'm looking to increase my light collection. My brightest/farthest throwing light is my EA8 at 900 lumens and 60000 cd. I was looking for something that would be a big enough difference to warrant purchasing. I want to spent under 150 with a black friday sale excluding batteries. I was looking at the acebeam k40m. Would that be much different?
In terms of throw, it wouldn't be much different. But it would certainly be a LOT brighter, and have a different tint, and have a ton more spill.
Are you looking for max lumens, or max throw? No light does both...the light Capolini suggested is one of the best all-rounders, but it is well above your price range.
If you are looking mostly for throw, and comfortable with buying a modded light, I agree that the K40vn would be an excellent choice (still one of my absolute favorites). If you are looking more for brightness and lots of spill, your pick of the K40M is solid too. Or even something like the SR Mini...2800 lumens of pure flood, and substantially smaller than your EA8. In my experience people expect big performance out of big lights...so the smaller the light, the more impressive it is.
