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**TeveVikep** · 08-11-2012, 03:34 AM

In my opinion, the high lumens thing is getting WAY out of hand. I have a lot of high-end flashlights, but I would say that 99.9% of the time I run (the variable ones anyway) at a setting of under 100 lumens. My most used flashlight (a keychain light) has a 120 lumen upper end, and 5 lumen lower end. I keep it set on the 5 lumen setting, and only turn it to "high" about twice a month.

My "lumen king" flashlight has an upper end around 400-ish lumens, I've used that setting exactly ONCE... when it arrived to test that it worked. Even a 150-ish lumen light is good to the tree line (about 200 yards away typically) with PLENTY of brightness.

08-11-2012, 03:34 AM	#2
TeveVikep Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 483 Senior Member	In my opinion, the high lumens thing is getting WAY out of hand. I have a lot of high-end flashlights, but I would say that 99.9% of the time I run (the variable ones anyway) at a setting of under 100 lumens. My most used flashlight (a keychain light) has a 120 lumen upper end, and 5 lumen lower end. I keep it set on the 5 lumen setting, and only turn it to "high" about twice a month. My "lumen king" flashlight has an upper end around 400-ish lumens, I've used that setting exactly ONCE... when it arrived to test that it worked. Even a 150-ish lumen light is good to the tree line (about 200 yards away typically) with PLENTY of brightness.
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