Brightest CR123 Light?

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There have been a few threads like this with other battery types.

What is the current brightest production light that uses a single CR123 Primary cell.

How about 2 x CR123 primary cells?
 
There have been a few threads like this with other battery types.

What is the current brightest production light that uses a single CR123 Primary cell.

How about 2 x CR123 primary cells?

4Sevens Quark and ZebraLight SC30 I think are close if not the top.
 
There have been a few threads like this with other battery types.

What is the current brightest production light that uses a single CR123 Primary cell.

How about 2 x CR123 primary cells?
re 2 x cr123, I'd look at Olight M20 as one of the brightest for the $. Fenix TK11 and Jetbeam RRT-1 are way up there too.
 
What I know about using 2xCR123:

Fenix TK30 puts out 370lumens, but even higher is Malkoff MD2 Wildcat 450+lumens. Higher than that I am not aware of.
 
Dereelight DBS with an MC-E pill puts out more than 500 lumens. But that can't operate on primaries, only rechargables. Longer runtime on two 18650's with the extension, but that's another thread. lovecpf
 
I just got my drop in MCE for my solarforce L2m.
Im sure its putting out well over 200 lumens i can notice a big diffrence between it and the R2.
Also dont see the + in the middle of the beam as being anything to put anyone of a MCE light.
Im also using a UCL lense so should be getting an extra 10% light compared to the crappy lense it comes with.
I think for the money this has to be the brightest single cr123 light.
It will be brighter on high than the quark R5 to the eye for example.
 
I would like to re-ask the question posed in this thread, what are the brightest single and double cr123 lights as of 2017? I have a fenix pd35 tac that is advertised as high as 1000 lumens from a 2 cell. Anything better and brighter out there?
 
I'd like to know this as well, seems not many people are fans of CR123 since there are other threads asking same question with crickets chirping
 
I think it may be that with CR123A safety limited to ~ 1.5A, max output will be fairly straightforwardly determined by whatever is the most efficient emitter currently available....
 
I will never buy ANY light which is not -capable- of running on 123 batteries and/or the ability to perform on less than all leds/batteries which is a critical safety factor .

The TK15 with two batteries has to be seen to be fully appreciated-in a word, amazing. If you don't mind adding a few more batteries then the TK35UE would serve one very very well BUT in my opinion the LD60 and 75C are really where its at even with the often alluded to but never witnessed 'flicker', possibly due to the use of 123's??

The above are absolutely the finest, most useful flashlights for hiking/camping/trail/utility use.
 
That would have to be with an IMR16340 instead of the cr123, as the cr123 will give up much past 1.5a. Would guess around 5 or 6a ask with 900lm output...........even an IMR 16340 will be short lived

Edit-Yes 550lm from a cr123 and over a 1000 with a high drain............xm-l2 seems to be the LED
 
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The PK PR-1 does 490 lumens on an RCR123 without step down. Somewhere around 400 with a CR123...again no step down.

His PRX weapon light does 550 steady on a CR123 for an hour without step down. Even more on an RCR but being a weapon light primaries are recconded.

The Elzetta Bones does like 725-750 on 2 CR123's without step down. The PK Warrior 2 by PowerTac does 1000 on 2 CR123's without step down.
 
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Yes, around the 550lm mark has to be around the max for a cr123...................seems about right ans still very impressive. The PK2 would be up there with the 1000lm off 2x cr123 cells , as the highest output short list.

Few fenix lights are around that type of output as well...............(sure some nitecore ones as well), pretty much most 18650 lights that are cr123 compatible will hit the 1k mark on 2x cr123's.

I think the real world use would depend more on the actual reflector size to what would "appear" brightest to answer the OP. Larger /deeper reflector to throw that light further down field.............
 
Which emitter, and what is the current draw on that ... ?
It isn't doing 900+ lumens on a CR123A. Right on foursevens site it mentions it requires Li-ion to do the full 1020 lumens.

Here is data that shows how much current and what the Vf will be at any given point for an XML2
http://budgetlightforum.com/node/19331

You need over 2.6 amps at around 3.3 Vf to hit the 1000 lumen mark. Not going to happen with a CR123A
 
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