You don't see a thread for it here because I really was not wanting to promote it just yet. I put it up on the site to appease some people that have been begging me to do so. Some hunters in Texas and another guy here at CPF. I do not in general publish lumen figures because it is not the standard by which a throw light should be judged. The figure that you really should be concerned with is the candela rating which is supplied and will tell you how intense the beam is. Beamshots will come later.
Yes, of course I am familiar with the idea that for throw lumen measurements are not important.
But, even for throwers, runtime matters! Whatever the initial lux, it will fall to ZERO after the batteries are exhausted.
And, for runtime, the lumen output and the current absorbed by the emitter matter.
Another element is the efficiency of the emitter. To track my flashlight collection, I have a couple of large spreadsheets where I keep track of basic measurements, which include both throw (lux/candela) and lumen ratings on top of several others such as current absorbed. Then I can calculate various efficiency measures.
One such I have been tracking is the current absorption per lux (or rather, the inverse of this ratio). For this it is not enough to have the lux, I also need the current.
Finally, I have learned a tremendous amount from reading your posts and I am truly grateful, and do not mean to complain about anything you are doing, of course there is no hurry to post everything especially about a new product.
But, at some point, I think it would be helpful to add some of the information, especially the type of LED used and the rest of the specs I list. This is also useful by the way as I also try to calculate the angle (degrees) of each LED light emission, and this could differ by type of LED.
Especially custom flashlights often change specs and even LEDs without much notice to the wider public, and inconsistencies in these calculations will inevitably creep in unless we keep rigorous track of as many specs as possible.
Many thanks again for your contributions, and for sure I will be adding some of your creations in my collection, but after I am able to do a rigorous comparison to my existing "stable"!