I don’t understand how you don’t have subscribers on par with Matt smith or more, these vids are extremely informative and professional. Best in class, keep it up.
Found this on reddit this review is amazing and the editing is top notch I hope to see more flashlight reviews from you i liked and subscribed also I purchased a tn42 v2 lastnight I think it'll pair well with my tn36 limited I just can't wait to get it now lol
I know it's old and been done before but a review of the BLF GT90 and then a comparison with the new TN 42 would be awesome. Haven't seen it done by anyone yet
I would love to make a video like that, the GT90 looks so cool. Unfortunately I don't really have the funds for it, and I can't seem to convince anybody besides Thrunite to send me more lights to review. Hopefully as the channel grows I'll find more opportunities to do fun videos like that.
Awesome video! But a comparison now between the TN42 V2 and the AceBeam K75 would be nice now. The K75 claims to have 2500 meters of throw, so a comparison would be really interesting.
That would be cool, I am very interested in the K75, however I cannot afford to purchase one. I would like to do a super-thrower round-up comparison sometime in the future
Hey I just ordered the imalent sr16, waiting for it in the mail. I know I'm not a huge fan of the cold white tint, much prefer a warner yellow tint. You happen to have any lights you'd be willing to do harmless, most likely harmless, experiment on? There are color tint films for fog lights that change fog light colors from cold white to warm yellow. I wonder how they'd do on flashlights... According to Amazon tint film product page they are easily removable. I need to know how they hold up to the heat and if still get same lumens etc ... If u got any old lights that get hot they'd be perfect test subject 🤣 I have to ask.
Lots of flashlight enthusiasts use colored or diffusion film on lights, there won't be any issues. However it will decrease the output, so I don't generally find it worthwhile, Id rather mod the light with warmer emitters
So 5700k is listed as cool white? Good thing I stumbled on this video as I definitely won't be buying this. I did get what I consider to be cool white white which is the Imalent RT90. I'm guessing its around 6300/ I had another sbt90.2 but in 5700k. I consider that warm. So I'm guessing the only cool white sbt90.2 emitter would be in the Imalent. Thanks for the info.
How far did you actually get your TN42 V2 to throw? I was comparing my TN42 V2 to my Catapult. At 600 feet the TN42 put out more light, although not as much as I was expecting. It illuminated more than my Catapult but not impressively so. Shining my TN42 V2 in the canyon behind my house it failed to light up the far side of the canyon which is about 1000 feet away. It 'might' have picked up a reflector, if there had been one, but lighting the canyon wall? Nope! Kind of underwhelmed with my $200 light. The only thing that might redeem this light is if it really will run for 3 hours on high.
The furthest measured target I illuminated was about a half mile away, I didn't measure the beam any further than that because that was about the limit for me. The 2,000M distance stated is theroetical and is based off the candela measurement, which is turn is a calculated using a lux measurement (at 5.7 meters, in my testing scenario). This is how lights are measured to ANSI FL1 spec (basically this is the 'official' method used to determine intensity and beam distance). In the real world, beam distance is rather complicated and is limited by a number of variables. Technically speaking, any beam will have an infinite throw, so 'beam distance' is actually a calculation determining the distance at which the beam will illuminate an object with 1 lux of intensity (or approximately the illumation provided by the full moon on a clear night, which is 1 lumen per square meter), which is the average limit of human eyesight at night without interference from other lighting sources and particulates in the air. Actual effective throw will be limited by things such as atmospheric quality and reflections from particulates in the air, competition from other light sources, reflectiveness of the target, and your own eyesight. The numbers given are simply an objective measurement which represent an ideal scenario, you could find better performance in use, but realistically your environment will limit the maximum throw of any light source, potentially regardless of output. Similarly, our perception of brightness is logarithmic and not linear, so a light emitting 200% as much output will not appear twice as bright, with this effect growing more and more dramatic as output increases. I personally find that as lumens increase at high levels, the actual apprent output doesn't grow as much, but the throw provided by the beam will still visibly increase. In all my personal testing, I did find the TN42 V2 to perform as expected based off my meaurements, but I didn't actually measure the beam out to a mile, I just pointed it at some objects I knew were about a mile away and called it good. I probably should have done some more accurate real-world testing, that is my bad. I also didn't film anything that far away because the camera simply can't capture it well enough. I recommend running some tests to see if the TN42 provides a meaningful performance increase for you, all these theoretical specs won't mean much if they don't amount to more usefulness for you in the long run. I love this light, but it's expensive. Anyways I'm sorry for the super long comment, I'll probably make a video on this subject in the future but I hope this was helpful
@@LuxWad thanks for the reply, not too long at all. After posting my comment I thought about what I was trying to light up and it's all dark brush, which tends to 'suck up the light'. I need to take my TN42 V2 out for a joy ride, find a straight stretch of road with reflectors to see how far my light will reach. I'm definitely keeping it, it won't be my go to when I go outside at night, too heavy & the Catapult will generally serve just fine. I think my imagination gave me unrealistic expectations. If I wanted to test the runtime, do you think running it for 3 hours straight would be safe for the light?
@LuxWad OK, so I did a little testing. My TN42 V2 (this thing needs a name) was EASILY able to light up a green reflective road sign from 1/2 mile. Unfortunately I have not been able to find a sign where I can test at 1 mile. I did test the battery runtime. At two hours the beam was still nice and bright. Unfortunately I got distracted, forgot to check after that until the 4 hour point, but the light was still on & the LED was flashing red, indicating 1-10% of battery capacity. I'd feel comfortable counting on at least 2 hours of nice, bright light on high, which is impressive. Another observation is that my TN42 V2 illumination on medium looks darned near identical to my Catapult on high, in a side by side test. All in all I am impressed with my TN42 V2. I'll keep looking for a way to test a 1 mile throw.
Where'd you get your spec info from? Every other review I've seen, and the product description on all websites that sell it say 864,000 candela on turbo and 1,860 meters throw distance... But you're saying over 1 million candela and over 2000 meters throw. Just curious why your spec info is so much different
I measured that myself. Other reviewers who do their own measurements (such as 1lumen and zero air, there were a couple others if I remember correctly) reported very similar results
@@LuxWad oh ok nice. I tried searching for Thrunite tn42 v2 on 1lumen but couldn't find anything on it. Can you link that page of it's still available? Thank you. Great video by the way! Very thorough
@@cirwo85 I was wrong, 1lumen never reviewed it - Tactical Grizzly (who has written for 1lumen a few times) reviewed and measured it here tgreviews.com/2022/07/02/thrunite-tn42-v2/#modes
@@LuxWad ok thank you. I don't know if you have a way to contact 1lumen but if so tell them their performance info is stupid. Their charts give the lumen output at startup, at 30 seconds and at ten minutes. We need to know about after 1 minute and after 2 minutes at the very least. They just skip to ten minutes . They give us no information we can use regarding the lumen drop, how are we suppose to get any idea from that. 30 seconds in and then after ten minutes . From 10000 lumen at 30 se onds then no more info until 1000 lumen at ten minutes. What morons. . But thank you for your info! You rock
Those are the numbers I got from my own measurements, which are corroborated by other independent reviewers. Thrunite's official numbers are under-spec.
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I don’t understand how you don’t have subscribers on par with Matt smith or more, these vids are extremely informative and professional. Best in class, keep it up.
Thanks! Hopefully the subscribers will come in time
I come from your post on reddit. The quality of you video is astounding. Awesome editing.
Really professional video!
Found this on reddit this review is amazing and the editing is top notch I hope to see more flashlight reviews from you i liked and subscribed also I purchased a tn42 v2 lastnight I think it'll pair well with my tn36 limited I just can't wait to get it now lol
I've got the acebeam k75... killer light
I know it's old and been done before but a review of the BLF GT90 and then a comparison with the new TN 42 would be awesome. Haven't seen it done by anyone yet
I would love to make a video like that, the GT90 looks so cool. Unfortunately I don't really have the funds for it, and I can't seem to convince anybody besides Thrunite to send me more lights to review. Hopefully as the channel grows I'll find more opportunities to do fun videos like that.
Excellent non nonsense video without any beam shots 👍👍👍
Awesome video! But a comparison now between the TN42 V2 and the AceBeam K75 would be nice now. The K75 claims to have 2500 meters of throw, so a comparison would be really interesting.
That would be cool, I am very interested in the K75, however I cannot afford to purchase one. I would like to do a super-thrower round-up comparison sometime in the future
I want this so bad...! Great video!
Thanks! It is an amazing light!
C8+ or l21b would be fun to see at some point, pretty much the opposite of the price spectrum
I'd like to do the C8+ eventually, it seems excellent for the price, especially with colored emitters
Hey I just ordered the imalent sr16, waiting for it in the mail. I know I'm not a huge fan of the cold white tint, much prefer a warner yellow tint. You happen to have any lights you'd be willing to do harmless, most likely harmless, experiment on? There are color tint films for fog lights that change fog light colors from cold white to warm yellow. I wonder how they'd do on flashlights... According to Amazon tint film product page they are easily removable. I need to know how they hold up to the heat and if still get same lumens etc ... If u got any old lights that get hot they'd be perfect test subject 🤣 I have to ask.
Lots of flashlight enthusiasts use colored or diffusion film on lights, there won't be any issues. However it will decrease the output, so I don't generally find it worthwhile, Id rather mod the light with warmer emitters
So 5700k is listed as cool white? Good thing I stumbled on this video as I definitely won't be buying this. I did get what I consider to be cool white white which is the Imalent RT90. I'm guessing its around 6300/ I had another sbt90.2 but in 5700k. I consider that warm. So I'm guessing the only cool white sbt90.2 emitter would be in the Imalent. Thanks for the info.
How far did you actually get your TN42 V2 to throw? I was comparing my TN42 V2 to my Catapult. At 600 feet the TN42 put out more light, although not as much as I was expecting. It illuminated more than my Catapult but not impressively so. Shining my TN42 V2 in the canyon behind my house it failed to light up the far side of the canyon which is about 1000 feet away. It 'might' have picked up a reflector, if there had been one, but lighting the canyon wall? Nope! Kind of underwhelmed with my $200 light. The only thing that might redeem this light is if it really will run for 3 hours on high.
The furthest measured target I illuminated was about a half mile away, I didn't measure the beam any further than that because that was about the limit for me.
The 2,000M distance stated is theroetical and is based off the candela measurement, which is turn is a calculated using a lux measurement (at 5.7 meters, in my testing scenario). This is how lights are measured to ANSI FL1 spec (basically this is the 'official' method used to determine intensity and beam distance).
In the real world, beam distance is rather complicated and is limited by a number of variables. Technically speaking, any beam will have an infinite throw, so 'beam distance' is actually a calculation determining the distance at which the beam will illuminate an object with 1 lux of intensity (or approximately the illumation provided by the full moon on a clear night, which is 1 lumen per square meter), which is the average limit of human eyesight at night without interference from other lighting sources and particulates in the air.
Actual effective throw will be limited by things such as atmospheric quality and reflections from particulates in the air, competition from other light sources, reflectiveness of the target, and your own eyesight. The numbers given are simply an objective measurement which represent an ideal scenario, you could find better performance in use, but realistically your environment will limit the maximum throw of any light source, potentially regardless of output.
Similarly, our perception of brightness is logarithmic and not linear, so a light emitting 200% as much output will not appear twice as bright, with this effect growing more and more dramatic as output increases. I personally find that as lumens increase at high levels, the actual apprent output doesn't grow as much, but the throw provided by the beam will still visibly increase.
In all my personal testing, I did find the TN42 V2 to perform as expected based off my meaurements, but I didn't actually measure the beam out to a mile, I just pointed it at some objects I knew were about a mile away and called it good. I probably should have done some more accurate real-world testing, that is my bad. I also didn't film anything that far away because the camera simply can't capture it well enough.
I recommend running some tests to see if the TN42 provides a meaningful performance increase for you, all these theoretical specs won't mean much if they don't amount to more usefulness for you in the long run. I love this light, but it's expensive. Anyways I'm sorry for the super long comment, I'll probably make a video on this subject in the future but I hope this was helpful
@@LuxWad thanks for the reply, not too long at all. After posting my comment I thought about what I was trying to light up and it's all dark brush, which tends to 'suck up the light'. I need to take my TN42 V2 out for a joy ride, find a straight stretch of road with reflectors to see how far my light will reach. I'm definitely keeping it, it won't be my go to when I go outside at night, too heavy & the Catapult will generally serve just fine. I think my imagination gave me unrealistic expectations. If I wanted to test the runtime, do you think running it for 3 hours straight would be safe for the light?
Yeah, that should be fine, the TN42 doesn't heat up too much on High, so I wouldn't worry about damaging it.
@LuxWad OK, so I did a little testing. My TN42 V2 (this thing needs a name) was EASILY able to light up a green reflective road sign from 1/2 mile. Unfortunately I have not been able to find a sign where I can test at 1 mile.
I did test the battery runtime. At two hours the beam was still nice and bright. Unfortunately I got distracted, forgot to check after that until the 4 hour point, but the light was still on & the LED was flashing red, indicating 1-10% of battery capacity. I'd feel comfortable counting on at least 2 hours of nice, bright light on high, which is impressive.
Another observation is that my TN42 V2 illumination on medium looks darned near identical to my Catapult on high, in a side by side test.
All in all I am impressed with my TN42 V2. I'll keep looking for a way to test a 1 mile throw.
Where'd you get your spec info from? Every other review I've seen, and the product description on all websites that sell it say 864,000 candela on turbo and 1,860 meters throw distance... But you're saying over 1 million candela and over 2000 meters throw. Just curious why your spec info is so much different
I measured that myself. Other reviewers who do their own measurements (such as 1lumen and zero air, there were a couple others if I remember correctly) reported very similar results
@@LuxWad oh ok nice. I tried searching for Thrunite tn42 v2 on 1lumen but couldn't find anything on it. Can you link that page of it's still available? Thank you. Great video by the way! Very thorough
@@cirwo85 I was wrong, 1lumen never reviewed it - Tactical Grizzly (who has written for 1lumen a few times) reviewed and measured it here tgreviews.com/2022/07/02/thrunite-tn42-v2/#modes
@@LuxWad ok thank you. I don't know if you have a way to contact 1lumen but if so tell them their performance info is stupid. Their charts give the lumen output at startup, at 30 seconds and at ten minutes. We need to know about after 1 minute and after 2 minutes at the very least. They just skip to ten minutes . They give us no information we can use regarding the lumen drop, how are we suppose to get any idea from that. 30 seconds in and then after ten minutes . From 10000 lumen at 30 se onds then no more info until 1000 lumen at ten minutes. What morons. . But thank you for your info! You rock
Just bought this flashlight on amazon on sale for $228 with tax already.
Nice! It's a great buy at that price
@@LuxWad -Thanks! Your video is very professional! Thumb up!
Almost perfect review 👌Maybe slow down your talking just a little bit, so it would be more relaxing to. follow. 🤓👍
Glad you liked it! I'm working on improving the pace a bit in my future videos :)
the specifications you give are wrong.
Which specifications?
@@LuxWad Peak beam intensity: 864,000cd.
Max beam distance: 1,860 meters / 2,034 yards.
And not 1.046.178 cd, and 2046 meters.
Those are the numbers I got from my own measurements, which are corroborated by other independent reviewers. Thrunite's official numbers are under-spec.
@@LuxWad OK thanks.