Best long range torch
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Bo Diddley
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Well, the Nightmaster Trident is the best torch I've ever used... until it stopped working...
Sniperhog
Interesting. They do look unnecessarily bulky but if you need a beam to reach out beyond 200 yards I guess that’s the price to be paid.
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Richard
Kind regards
Richard
Stalker_AG
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Noctigon K1 for me. Easy 1.5km beam.
Stalker_AG
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Lumintop GT Mini Pro is a fantastic pocket thrower if you want something easy to carry. I have a few, and nearly always one with me. Easily does 500m which is amazing for something so small.
The Speras T1 is a brilliant long-range torch.
Ah, a fellow connoisseur
I've the w2.2 in mine, as well as a bunch of D4K, D4S, D4, D2, DM11
jthyttin
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When quoting beams, it's useful to say whether you mean actual usable distance (and then if naked eye or scope), or ANSI FL beams that IIRC mean 0.25lux illumination at the target. That is comparable to full moon, so for most people it's a stretch to call that effective beam distance.
Since we seem to have diverged to white light, I might add LEP (Laser Excited Phosphor) torches. I only have experience with one, Olight Odin Turbo, but I can attest that at 300-something lumens it kind of matches the much larger Olight M3X at 1000-something lumens. Both are rated for about 1000 meter beam and are somewhat usable with naked eye for "as far as you can see" (maybe 500 meters or so?) The form factor is very nice, and the beam is exceedingly narrow. I haven't actually tried but judging on the manufacturer runtimes the efficiency of LEP is much worse than LED (i.e. despite much lower lumen ratings, the runtime isn't longer)
Since we seem to have diverged to white light, I might add LEP (Laser Excited Phosphor) torches. I only have experience with one, Olight Odin Turbo, but I can attest that at 300-something lumens it kind of matches the much larger Olight M3X at 1000-something lumens. Both are rated for about 1000 meter beam and are somewhat usable with naked eye for "as far as you can see" (maybe 500 meters or so?) The form factor is very nice, and the beam is exceedingly narrow. I haven't actually tried but judging on the manufacturer runtimes the efficiency of LEP is much worse than LED (i.e. despite much lower lumen ratings, the runtime isn't longer)
Stalker_AG
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Ah, a fellow connoisseur
I've the w2.2 in mine, as well as a bunch of D4K, D4S, D4, D2, DM11
Yup. You can't beat a good torch. I have far far too many!!
Foxyboy43
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There was a time when Nightmaster ruled the roost and I could see foxes at distances way further than I would ever lift the rifle to. Now there's a proliferation of fabulous light torches but strangely the Nightmaster still throws a beam further than I can reasonably be sure of a shot.
Maybe that’s why I have two of them and three different pils which I still use….
Maybe that’s why I have two of them and three different pils which I still use….
And for bunnies overkill!There was a time when Nightmaster ruled the roost and I could see foxes at distances way further than I would ever lift the rifle to. Now there's a proliferation of fabulous light torches but strangely the Nightmaster still throws a beam further than I can reasonably be sure of a shot.
Maybe that’s why I have two of them and three different pils which I still use….
K
I have a Nightmaster trident, I would like a white light throwing good range. Have looked at the acebeam W30 looks impressive
I have a Nightmaster trident, I would like a white light throwing good range. Have looked at the acebeam W30 looks impressive
yeah this is the thing its mentioning beam distance but useable is very different. I’d like a little more than moon light. Lol I looked at the acebeam w30 but its an LEP do you mean that the battery’s don’t last long with efficiency or that the bulb doesn’t as its lep? Also why is it so hard to find LEP lights here?
jthyttin
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Acebeam W30 seems to come in 3 different versions (6500K, 4000K, CRI>=90) and Acebeam only quotes beam for 6500K that has longest throw. It seems that while 6500K has 2500m throw, the high CRI version reaches 2000m. Both should be substantial improvement over Trident, if the 1000m beam they quote is to the same spec as Acebeam.
I would strongly consider the high CRI (Color Rendering Index) version. The beam is very tight and at distance you want all the help you can get to understand what you're looking at. Of course more light means you see better so it's a trade-off. Depending on whether you consider squared or cubed, a torch that has 2500m throw will have 50-100% more light at given distance than torch with 2000m throw.
I would strongly consider the high CRI (Color Rendering Index) version. The beam is very tight and at distance you want all the help you can get to understand what you're looking at. Of course more light means you see better so it's a trade-off. Depending on whether you consider squared or cubed, a torch that has 2500m throw will have 50-100% more light at given distance than torch with 2000m throw.
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