Normally if indoor I would use the Emisar D4, work like a charm!

damn acebeam have gone mad... white laser...
250lumens, very pocketable 1x21700, 1000m...
http://www.acebeam.com/white-laser-w10

they even got the cheek to say "Please note: DO NOT look into the beam", like no shit...

This post has been edited by Everdying: Nov 19 2018, 10:54 PM

you found your ultimate thrower!

so...i went and bought the manker mk41...
surprisingly it outshines the jetbeam at 200m...even tho they both have similar rated throw at 410m and 390m...so technically at 200m both should throw around the same at the target...hmm...need to go research why
maybe its not exactly linear...and the extra lumens of the mk41 makes a difference still at 200m...

now if jetbeam somehow had the new emitter that the mk41 has...thats gonna rule




nm, figured out the throw issue... the jetbeam inbuilt battery indicator sux... said full.
so i swapped batteries in both, and manker said it was 50%.
so now charging, and will try again at midnight

hmm ok, fully charged... looks like my sanyo harmolattice has issues / the light doesn't like harmolattice or vice versa...puts out slightly lower output than eneloops...
guess I'll replace the eneloop in flashgun with the harmolattice...

This post has been edited by Everdying: Nov 22 2018, 11:44 PM

the manker is pretty compact, eh? but that glass breaker on your jetbeam looks pretty menacing!

i'm now toying with the idea of getting myself a u22 . so much for not being a thrower guy

strange... now that the s2r2 is available, the s2r1 seems to have vanished. i'm sure there were many still available before the s2r2 made its appearance

This post has been edited by WingNut: Nov 23 2018, 09:17 AM

ya i played a bit with the u22... just a few things held me back.
no holster, and the 21700 batt isnt easily purchased seperately for now.
also it was around rm60 more than the mk41... also bigger than mk41... and i pity my AA batteries just collecting dust.

these are the reasons why i'm holding back. if only i could get my hands on a reasonably priced mk41nw

the NW is too yellow, plus its not hi-cri...so its gonna tint everything yellow instead of bringing out the true colors.
thats why i went with the CW...its actually more white white than blue white...closer to 5500k than 7000k.

oh, and theres 10% sale going on now...

This post has been edited by Everdying: Nov 23 2018, 11:27 AM

charger : 1000ma / 750ma.
charging from zero to full : 3.84hrs / 5.12hrs
battery indicator : yes / no.
reversible clip : yes / no.



as to why olight upgraded the emitter, i guess can read this thread - http://budgetlightforum.com/node/54947

yeah, i'm beginning to see the folly of my ways

officially, the s2r2 also retails at only $69.99 compared to the s2r1 at $72.95... so there goes my price argument

it sure is gonna be an exy christmas

my latest addition...

A Warm Winter...

ooh... nice pair!

This post has been edited by WingNut: Nov 26 2018, 05:00 PM

Poison 😱

This post has been edited by huislaw: Nov 26 2018, 06:08 PM

nice bling bling, and i must say, they're very attractive... but retailing at rm430, it's something i can easily pass. olight has however reaffirmed my personal view that they do make the most elegant lights



incidentally, had some time on my hand last night so did some random tests with my s1rt, u12(nw) and tn01(nw). the tint on the u12 is closer to the s1rt than it is to the tn01. yes, the tn01(nw) has a much stronger yellowish tint. the s1rt has a more even floody beam than the u12 but i guess it works for the u12 in the sense that you get a nice balance of flood and throw. had my hands full so wasn't able to take the comparison shots. will probably set my cam up on tripod when i have the time. must say i'm liking the u12 as my walkabout torch more and more.

This post has been edited by WingNut: Nov 27 2018, 04:04 PM

okay, so i got my cam on tripod and shot this for tint comparison (you can also make out the beam focus). they're not at equal lumens so ignore their brightness. clockwise from top: thrunite t01, olight s1r turbo and manker u12. distance from wall approx. 1 metre.



the unequal brightness between the manker u12 and olight does seem to have skewed the tint somewhat so here's a direct comparison with the olight's s1r turbo (right) at high. the beam on the olight is obviously much wider and very even whereas with the u12, there's a primary beam with some peripheral spill.



do note that the wall is off white and thus this is a very simplistic lay comparison. but the tints can be seen quite obviously in these pics. the thrunite is very much warmer. the manker casts a pretty good neutral white to my untrained eyes. and the olight... definitely cool white.

This post has been edited by WingNut: Nov 28 2018, 01:29 AM

weird my post dissapeared...

anyway, that thrunite is too yellow for my tastes...and that manker looks the nicest at somewhere like 5500k...can use to light products

yeah, i was quite surprised by thrunite's yellowish tint when i first had it. but i didn't actually put them all together until the day before. then it became very apparent. for a general purpose edc, it works just fine. not so good if you need it for product photography because of the yellow tint. i wouldn't recommend it anyway because of the single output. so yes, the u12 would be a better option in that sense. and i gotto say, although i am a fan of nw's, olight i3e has been my keychain edc light (it's noticeably shorter).

p.s. the white balance on the test shots were on auto, hence you see a difference in tint between the manker's u12 beams (cam probably picked up manker's dominant beam in the first shot for metering purposes, and the olight's dominant beam in the second shot).

This post has been edited by WingNut: Nov 28 2018, 12:37 PM

look what came in with the mail today

not exactly the throw torch i was aiming for, but a very close second and i actually prefer the styling on this compared to thrunite's catapult. anyway, since it's a thrower, decided to go with the cw instead of my preferred nw. will bring her out this weekend for some field test to see how she performs. wonder if she'll surprise a fisherman or two

This post has been edited by WingNut: Nov 28 2018, 04:14 PM

one thing that bugs me about the mankers...
the ring around the button isnt centered...zzz.
the least they could do is make it either smooth, or put more grooves so wont look off center

the grooves are the catch for when they screw on the switch assembly, perhaps?

p.s. when the tailcap is screwed on tight, the lanyard loop on the tailcap isn't perfectly aligned either