sugestions for a thrower

[evnash]

so i have a trustfire TR1200 that my soon to be father in law loves! he lives out in the country in the middle of a field and couldnt believe that i could throw over a football field away to see the treeline. i wanna get him a good thrower for fathers day but i dont wanna get him the tr1200 due to the odd batteries and charger. so i need suggestions on good throwers that run off AAA or 123 batteries. looking to spend <$50 total.

thanks

 

[Ecolang]

The Piritlight SG-L9 ought to do the trick. And only $29. DX sku.21035

 

[Painkiller1009]

I would suggest the Ultrafire wf-008 recoil thrower
SKU 22934 from dx.
I have this light and it never fails to impress people.

 

[Flying Turtle]

What about one of those 2C Taskforce lights with a Cree from Lowe's. Not sure if they are still available. I think they were about $30.

Geoff

 

[joe1512]

Unfortunately, there arent a whole lot of high lumen lights that dont' use the funky batteries.

The TK40 is a 8xAA light that has a good throw/flood balance, but its 140 bucks!
The itp A6 polestar uses 6xAA but its a flooder...and costs 80.

So you are pretty much stuck with 2xAA lights. With a decent reflector, these can certainly produce around 200 lumens and throw them pretty far.

However, this is will not be impressive compared to a mighty TR1200, which not only has the throw, but 700ish lumens worth of 5x emitter goodness. It uses about 5 amps, which drives all 5 emitters pretty well.

The best 2xAA light is going to be 4 times weaker. It will probably only look 1/2 as weak though due to how we percieve brightness.


A reasonably cheap option might be a Romisen Flood-to-Throw light, or one of several DX variants like the X2000 flood. These aren't super bright, but they do have pretty decent optics.

 

[Ecolang]

The Piritlight will run on 2 CR123s which is one of the options. Personally, I'd drop the money on a couple of 18650s and a charger.

 

[p moore]

How about the Dorcy 220, No funky batteries and it is rechargable. Throws a good strong beam.

Paul

 

[gcbryan]

If DX is an option you can get the Uniquefire HS-802 which is the best thrower using a reflector that you are going to find in that price range. It uses (2) CR123's or a 18650. The CR123's were one of your options I believe.

 

[shark_za]

KD have their RQ spear clone bundled in a neat little package with 2x18650 cells and a charger.

Everything you need to get you started.

 

[joe1512]

I'd suggest you look at the 2xCR123 lights. You can order a whole box of CR123 batteries pretty cheaply online and those should last for a good long while. That way he doesn't have to worry about the usual battery issues.

I didn't read that this was an option; my bad. But yeah, 2xCR123 can be used with many 1x18650 lights, which are higher power.

You can also browse through deal extreme for a high lumen that has a big head and also takes cr123. You can't search on cr123 though. Try 18650 instead.

http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.8537
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.15685
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.25398

 

[Tally-ho]

i dont wanna get him the tr1200 due to the odd batteries and charger.

You might reconsider the Li-Ion option. Shekor charger is a good budget charger (that really cuts off after termination) and there is nothing too weird with Li-Ion batteries as far as you will explain 1 or 2 things before.