Streamlight Vs. Surefire Vs. Olight Night Test

i use surefire for airsoft, the focus beam helps me blind ppl, which freeze them for a second while I shoot them with BBs

Nice comparison. Cool to see the family participating again. Windering for how long the little saw spots everywhere after the lughts were off. Think that should be the true deciding factor 😁. Great vid Jarhead6. Thank you.

I suppose it really starts to matter a great deal more at longer distances, but all of the examples shown definitely do the job well at that distance.

The pl2 Valkyrie has overheating protection. After about 1 min 48 sec of continuous run your lumens drop from 1200 to 600. I think this is what you are experiencing.

My thoughts on the Olight – you mentioned that it has approx. 100 rounds through it. I have had a few weapon lights and I noticed that gun powder coats the lense after discharging the weapon, and it was pretty difficult to clean. This may be the issue.

In any case, all three of these are great lights! Great video.

I'd contact Olight about that pl-2… I haven't had a problem with any of mine…. I'm easily approaching 1000 rounds on my pl mini…. and probably 600+ on my PL-2.. will keep an eye on the hot spot…. At the range (indoors) it is hard to see the beam, but when I practice and dry fire at home I see it just fine on the wall…

Great test bro my tlr1 hl should be arriving today and I'm ordering a new holster to carry my new Glock with it attached, I am pumped

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There is a lot of variations depending on the reflector depth/size (and whether it is smooth vs orange peel textured), LED emitter die size, and lumen output. If you want a flashlight with throw (focused bright hotspot), you will want a smaller LED emitter, deep reflector, and smooth texturing to the reflector. Advantage is you can effectively have a really bright hotspot with less lumens. Disadvantage is the tunnel vision effect. Other style could be more floody but lots of output. This needs a shallow reflector, orange peel texturing and a bigger LED die (which are typically the most powerful LED's on the market). Advantage is you will get a lot more spill and it will light up a lot more stuff at once, no tunnel vision. Disadvantage, floody lights take a lot more lumens and power to give you a similar hotspot brightness as a throwy light with less lumens. Although the LED's in this category are usually the latest and greatest so they will be more efficient than their predecessors, but still you will need a lot more juice than the first option. Thus less battery life.

With the size reflectors possible in these compact weapon lights, there isn't going to be much of a variance based on that. What you want to look for is the LED size, as that will be the biggest determining factor in how floody or throwy the light will be. And you can always get dedomed LED's as well, which improve throw drastically as it reduces the projected size of the LED when in a reflector (dedomed is basically removing the small lens from the LED die, which makes the LED look smaller to the reflector and you get more throw). But that is a bit more hobbyist market than mainstream.

Don't just go off lumens, the number you want is lux. Lux essentially tells you how good it can throw in relation to it's lumen output. Anything above 15,000 lux should be pretty decent for a weapon light. So for example you have a light with an Cree XM-L2 emitter, it has an output of 1,000 lumens and a lux of 5,000. This is not a throwy light, it will be more floody with a large hotspot and generous spill. However if you have an XM-L2 with a 1,000 lumen output and 25,000 lux, it will be a really focused hotspot and not much flood or spill.

Also just to reinforce what I am saying, I have a custom made Eagletac M25C2 Turbo with a dedomed XM-L2 U3 LED (about 1,200 lumen OTF output) with a rating of about 550,000 lux. I can visibly light up houses over a mile away with this light, it's basically a laser of LED light. It has a HUGE and deep smooth reflector, mix that with a dedomed semi-small profile LED = throwy beyond belief. And it is only just a bit over 1,200 lumens OTF. Lighting up entire houses brightly from over 3 blocks away is no issue for it at all. This same light with a dedomed Cree XP-G2 emitter (about 1/2 the size of the XM-L2 emitters) has almost 800,000 lux with even less lumen output.

I also have a custom made Nitecore that outputs something like 9,000 OTF lumens but only has maybe 25,000 lux, it is pure flood. It is a gigantic insanely bright wall of light up close, but quickly becomes useless over distances despite it's crazy lumen output.

Lumens (ANSI or OTF) and lux are the key figures you want to familiarize yourself with if you want to accurately determine how these lights will perform before seeing them yourself.

High lux but low lumens = Defined focused hotspot with little to no spill and long runtime.
High lumens but low lux = Floody light with a large hotspot, lots of spill and a moderate runtime.
High lux and high lumens = Best of both worlds, but will hamper runtime significantly.

These are all assuming the same standard 1x/2x CR123 battery setup across each.

Nice test, some are better for indoors some better on rifles and others on handguns indoors.  They all have a place and fill a need, don't just buy the brightest.  Also keep in mind that if you plan on buying night vision the you can't use an IR filter on a LED light, they don't produce IR light.

TLR-1 on my home nightstand gun & TLR-7 on carry gun. Great lights.

Good stuff… like my o light on the dark Alaskan winter days

Nice testing….Good stuff….

I thought the Surefire with a defined hot spot would work better on an AR for more distant shooting, but for a hand gun they all would work good. I am not sure I would want more than 400 to at the max 600 lumens inside my house. If your walls are white you would blind yourself.

focus beam, I the surefires

Nice flashlights Bro! I hope to get one for my Glock19 and AR-15 soon… Great video today , be Blessed Brother!

Man it look like a big difference between those wow. Great video man 👍🏼👍🏼👊

Haven’t tried any Olight yet but they look awesome for the money! Great Video!!

I've owned Streamlight TLR-3 and 4 as well as Olight Valkyrie PL2 as well as PL2 mini. Valkyrie is way too bright for indoor use during the night as you will loose much of your vision if your pupils are wide open when you turn it on so it sits on my AR. the PL-2 mini sits on my bedroom pistol and is superior for indoor use at 150 lumens and has a great recharging USB system. Streamlight 3 or 4 or good pistol lights but lack the rechargeable battery and ease of use method of charging vs USB. Good Vid Jar

I have a PL-2 that I put on a rifle. It has a very defined hotspot and I've used it to identity objects up 100 yards away. For my pistols I like the PL- mini. If I can't see it with 400 lumens and what ever candela it has I probably don't need to be shooting at it.

Well my streamlights are the brightest but I prefer the Olight PL Mini for my Pistols. The way I see it, if I can't see it with the PL Mini I ain't got no business shootin' it in a self-defense situation.

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