If you look you can find a higher lumen light on eBay. This is made in China. I have purchased a 25000 light for 30$. Has 10 t6 leds and also takes 4 18650 batteries. Aluminium body . I'm sick of people getting ripped off bye company's for things that sell for way less.
Bigtman739That's an interesting option; I'm sure the build quality/fit and finish may not be what this is, but if your looking for the fun factor of such a bright torch just to have it, the $30 ebay specials might be the way to go. I'll pick one of those guys up to see how it does. I did grab one of the nextorch units here, the price was good and it is a superb piece of gear, 1050 lumens I believe and fantastic build quality.
Bigtman739I hate to burst your bubble but most likely that $30 light doesn't put out even half of the claimed lumens. Max output for the cree xml t6 is about 1000 max lumens so the most that light could have would be 10,000 lumens. I highly doubt a $30 light puts out more than 2500 lumens. If it did put out those claimed lumens everyone in the flashlight community would be all over it and I've never heard of a 25,000 lumen light for anywhere close to that price. I think you're misguided in your rant, alot of research and development goes into these high lumen lights and nitecore sells pretty good quality lights. They also don't claim outlandish outputs and follow ANSI FL1 lumen standards. If you want a great deal on a similar light I would recommend getting the BLF Q8, it was designed by the budget light forum, puts out 5000 lumens, has decent throw, and costs around $65 on amazon.