EagleTac P200LR ~ 18650 duty light w/ optic

I'm not super comfortable trying the test either, especially since mine uses a Nichia 519A.

I'm unsure if the kick down is time or temperature based. That review clearly says in the specs that it's temp based, but the testing seems to indicate otherwise.
 
I have not technically tested this, but I did use this light a lot over the weekend. I did security at a very remote church camp. I used it on medium mode most of the time as that was more than enough light for general tasks and walking around. Even when having it on for 10-15 minutes I would switch it to High and at least from my general eyes I would get full output. That was just to check things out. I would then twist it back down to medium.
And for the record I had my Tactician as back up and I found that the low on it was too low for walking around, and the high was too bright. The Eagtac was perfect on Medium!
 
Bought it, did the test:
2 times with an Eagtac 18650 10A max and 2 timws with an Eagtac 18650 15A max.

Quick test.

Result:
runtime for first start is between 66 and 88s and 2nd start warm from High mode is between 18 and 29s.

With high voltage the difference between the batteries is small, i believe the test errors are bigger.

Maybe the 15A Version is better if the battery voltage is low. Maybe. Maybe I will test it.
 

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Bought it, did the test:
2 times with an Eagtac 18650 10A max and 2 timws with an Eagtac 18650 15A max.

Quick test.

Result:
runtime for first start is between 66 and 88s and 2nd start warm from High mode is between 18 and 29s.

With high voltage the difference between the batteries is small, i believe the test errors are bigger.

Maybe the 15A Version is better if the battery voltage is low. Maybe. Maybe I will test it.

Thank you for sharing this info! I have this light w/519A 4500K, this info is useful to me, and I have no way of gathering this data myself. If you have any further thoughts / observations, I'll be interested in those as well.
 
Beamshots of P200LR Turbo against DX3B Mk2 Turbo and EDC25 High+Turbo.

Have someone the DX3L MK2 and can make a runtime test with Turbo for 5min and then turn off, turn on and as long as it needs to get throttle down to high?
Or can you test Turbo runtime in relation to the battery voltage (like in the P200LR test from TLF I linked)?

DX3B MK2 holds the turbo only with high voltage for 34s.
 

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@Sonnenhell123

One thing I'm a bit confused about is whether you're looking at / for the effects / correlation of time, temperature, or cell voltage, vs output. My primary interest is output vs time and temperature, while factoring out (independent of) cell voltage. The first 2 are a direct result of design criteria / specifications of the flashlight, whereas the third is not. I guess it's just Monday;-)
 
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@Sonnenhell123

One thing I'm a bit confused about is whether you're looking at / for the effects / correlation of time, temperature, or cell voltage, vs output. My primary interest is output vs time and temperature, while factoring out (independent of) cell voltage. The first 2 are a direct result of design criteria / specifications of the flashlight, whereas the third is not. I guess it's just Monday;-)

Look just at the runtime chart.

If you also use thin flashlights for EDC using its Turbo and don't want to recharge every day to have a Turbo which doesn't shine only on Monday for the advertised amount if time (e.g. 30s) you have to look for the battery voltage dependancy of Turbo - https://tgreviews.com/ shows you the brightness in relation to the battery voltage (but doesn't show how long Turbo holds in depending on the battery voltage - room for making the good website even better (-:
A reviewer who tests the runtime of 2nd Turbo is:
He makes testing with 10min Turbo incl. step down and then turns on Turbo again (with cooldown pause?).

A solution is to buy a anduril light and test how high you can set the brightness (in level out of 150) to get a turbo with your runtime even with lower voltage.
For that you could do: 1min Turbo, pause for cooldown, 10min High, pause for cooldown, 1min Turbo and look if the 2nd Turbo have the same brightness and duration and if the high sustains brightness for the ten minutes. If something doesn't reach the aim: adjust one and repeat.

At all developer and reviewer: please including something similar in you development / testing process!

Its so stupid and customer fooling to sell a light which have 2500 Lumen for 34s with 4.2V and only 2500 Lumen for up to 10s or 1000 Lumen for 34s with voltage <4V!
 
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