13,000 lumen TrustFire 12XT6 with beamshots

Most of us CPF'ers frown upon these overseas lights, but they are out there and quiet appealing. This light is pretty big. It sports 12 xml t6 emitters. Pulls 4.25 amps at the tail cap and is stated to have 13,000 lumen. Well we all know that is false... even at the emitters! On high, this light uses pulse width modulation and its for a good reason. The head of the light gets hot within 15 seconds. Surprisingly this light puts out enough heat from the beam that it is uncomfortable after 20 seconds and is definitely hotter than a Streamlight Stinger. This light changes modes when bumped which makes it defective but I'll probably open it up to figure it out. The only LED light I have close to output is my Maelstrom S12 SST-90 which puts out 800 Lumen OTF when its room temperature.

This first picture is the S12 taken with manual mode.

The tint doesn't appear this blue.

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12Xt6 same settings

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S12

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12Xt6

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Its not the prettiest light to look at and it reminds me of something that grew up in nuclear waste, but she is BRIGHT!