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I am so disappointed in this flashlight. I been checking the tracking not stop anticipating its arrival. Well its here! All I can say is I'm so disappointed by its performance. My led 139 lumen maglight from Walmart does a slightly better job than this "1600 lumen" flashlight. Technically it should have been at least 10 times brighter. Right?

DONT buy this misleadingly advertised flashlight.

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Disappointing. Very dim light. That one customer image makes it look like its the bat signal on the side of that building, just a long exposure i think. The driver in mine was faulty too, the mode would change every time you turned it off and then on, even if you waited an hour.

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I returned this after finding out it was so far from 1600 lumens that it was basically fraud to say it was 1600 lumens. It was not worth the cheap cost to have to use a 18650 battery. In comparison, the Fenix TK41 rates at 800 lumens. You would think this was twice as bright, but you'd be wrong. This isn't even half as bright. I'm not recommending the TK41 because of switch reliability problems, but that thing is REALLY bright, and I doubt Fenix would list their lumens as lower than they really are, so I think their brightness numbers are reliable. And yes, I know I should just send the TK41 in to get fixed.

That said, the blatant lie about the lumens here makes me unlikely to even try another flashlight from NowAdvisor. You just can't trust the label.

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So i was way excited when the package arrived. I read the reviews but refused to believe that it was that dim... It's that dim. the headlight om my Trek is a 2 watt and it blows this so called 1600 lumens away! DO NOT BUY THIS LIGHT!

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Did some research on the CREE XM-L T6 LED and found out it is not capable of 1600 lumens from one LED (which this flashlight has). Here is a quote from the CREE website under XM-L LEDs.

"XLamp XM-L LEDs offer the unique combination of very high efficacy at very high drive currents, delivering 1000 lumens with 100 lumens-per-watt efficacy at 3 A in a compact, 5-mm x 5-mm footprint."

Even if this flashlight was putting out 10 watts, the maximum lumens would be 1000. If you look at the description for this flashlight it clearly says 8W, so the maximum lumens this flashlight can produce is 800.

800 lumens isn't bad but this is still false advertising.

The CREE XM-L LED data sheet can be found here -> http://www.cree.com/~/media/Files/Cree/LED%20Components%20and%20Modules/XLamp/Data%20and%20Binning/XLampXML.pdf