mc2 eagle tac vs tk40

[alexdiver]

i am wondering why a mc2 from eagle tac with a mc-e led is rated at 900 lumens and a tk 40 with the same led is rated at 640 lumens


please tell me how this is possible ??


because i ordered a tk40 but hope i didnt make a mistake.

 

[Mjolnir]

Advertised lumens don't really matter, as they are virtually never accurate.
The number of lumens that these two lights are putting out doesn't really matter, since they have different beam patterns. Even if they both output the exact same number (or is it amount?) of lumens, they would not have the same brightness in different areas of their beams. Buying a light simply because of a lumen claim doesn't make sense, since the amount of lumens a light gives off says nothign about its usability (with lights of relatively similar lumen values, of course).

 

[neo_xeno]

tk40 is rated 630 lumens out the front of the lens. where as mc2 is 900 lumens from the led.

 

[alexdiver]

very usefull answers thanks

now if only fenixtactical.com could stop pushing back the date of the shipment i cant wait arrgg

 

[Lite_me]

i am wondering why a mc2 from eagle tac with a mc-e led is rated at 900 lumens and a tk 40 with the same led is rated at 640 lumens


please tell me how this is possible ??


because i ordered a tk40 but hope i didnt make a mistake.

:thinking: Just what is an Eagletac MC2? Did you mean the M2X ? If so, it doesn't use a MC-E LED like the TK40. It has a P7. They're different animals.

 

[alexdiver]

my bad i taught it used a mc-e, so a quad die p7 is brighter than a quad die mc-e

 

[Mjolnir]

No, not necessarily. It all depends on how much current the LED is being run at.
I'm not actually sure which light is giving off more lumens at the LED, but it really shouldn't matter, since they should be pretty close. It all comes down to which beam pattern you prefer.