Thrunite Catapult

[kwakster]

Daddy has a new flashlight,


(mine has a smooth reflector)

ThruNite designs and manufactures their flashlight in Hong Kong, employing its own designers and utilizing its in-house CNC lathes.
The company strives to produce the most sophisticated LED flashlights possible, while offering outstanding value through competitive pricing.
ThruNite lights are designed to be more useable by those in need of a high quality illumination tool, more practical than the current ones on the market, and more versatile.
The lights are innovatively designed with the consumer's needs foremost in mind.
The company strives to use the best, most up-to-date manufacturing techniques to produce its lights.

The Catapult features an efficient parabolic reflector, and a double-sided multilayer antireflective coated lens.
The Catapult's ergonomic design enables it to be used for extended periods of time, while providing an anti-slip surface and grip design to lessen any chance of dropping the light.

LED
• World-class super bright Luminus SST-50 with the highest flux bin produced
• Maximum of 900 lumens on high
DRIVER
• Advanced PIC provides four simple stages: high-middle-low-strobe
OUTPUT AND RUNTIME /runtime is with 2600 mAh rechargeable batteries/
• 900 lumen - 1.5 hours
• 350 lumen - 5 hours
• 150 lumen - 20+ hours
BODY
• Type III hard anodized 7075AL for durability and wear resistance
• Length: 185mm; Head diameter: 58mm; Body diameter: 31mm
• Weight: 390g. (Extended tube excluded)
• Tactical momentary-on forward switch
• Tail cap design allows the light to tail stand
WATERPROOF:
• IPX-8 standard
LENS
• Anti-shatter ultra clear lens with double-sided multilayer AR coating
REFLECTOR
• 54mm smooth reflector for throw
• Optional OP reflector
BATTERY OPTIONS: 1x 18650 / 1 x 17670 / 2 x 18650 / 2 x 17670 (2 x 18650 recommended for optimum performance!)

Note: Do not use CR123 or RCR123A / 16340 batteries in the Catapult!

Here are a few beamshots;


Testshot op 50/60 meter:


On low at a distance of about 50 a 60 meter:



Thrunite Catapult op high op 50/60 meter:


On high at the same distance:



Another one on high, but with the beam aimed at the large building in the background
Estimated distance about 250 a 300 meter



Here's a nice review of the Catapult complete with detailed pics and graphics; http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb/showthread.php?t=252477

[nuphoria]

Wow! That's kicks arse 

[Benner]

Whoa! 

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

Damn

[AHB]

Damn

What he said.. 

[cliosguy]

Damn

What he said.. 

+1

[Gareth]

Cool death-ray!

 

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

Cool death-ray! (Image removed from quote.)

 

Better smilie 

[thebullfrog]

Holy Shh.....

[J-sews]

Bet your squinty-eyed neighbors are really impressed with that Kwakster!

[thebullfrog]

How do people not call the cops on you? Of course they probably thought that it WAS a police helicopter shining it's spotlight through their windows lol.

[kwakster]

The dark windows in the pictures belong to a former office that will be replaced by appartments in a couple of months, so no one was bothered during the testing of the Catapult.

Besides, a few years back i tested an experimental Swiss made HID flashlight, which looked a baseball bat with a soup bowl glued to the broad end.
That thing put out 5800 Lumen, and people came out of their houses when the beam passed their windows, 

[J-sews]

The dark windows in the pictures belong to a former office that will be replaced by appartments in a couple of months, so no one was bothered during the testing of the Catapult.

Besides, a few years back i tested an experimental Swiss made HID flashlight, which looked a baseball bat with a soup bowl glued to the broad end.
That thing put out 5800 Lumen, and people came out of their houses when the beam passed their windows, 

5800!!?

Any pictures?

[thebullfrog]

5800 lumens would catch a blind persons attention shining through their windows.

[Benner]

The dark windows in the pictures belong to a former office that will be replaced by appartments in a couple of months, so no one was bothered during the testing of the Catapult.

Besides, a few years back i tested an experimental Swiss made HID flashlight, which looked a baseball bat with a soup bowl glued to the broad end.
That thing put out 5800 Lumen, and people came out of their houses when the beam passed their windows, 

5800!!?

Any pictures?

+1 to that!!

[Gareth]

The dark windows in the pictures belong to a former office that will be replaced by appartments in a couple of months, so no one was bothered during the testing of the Catapult.

Besides, a few years back i tested an experimental Swiss made HID flashlight, which looked a baseball bat with a soup bowl glued to the broad end.
That thing put out 5800 Lumen, and people came out of their houses when the beam passed their windows, 

5800!!?

Any pictures?

+1 to that!!

Something like this perhaps?



 

[kwakster]

Close, 

Sadly i took no photo's in those days, and i also haven't been able to find any info or pics of the "torch" online.
The HID light was a completely Swiss made item from the highest quality (Surefire didn't even come close) aimed at mountain search & rescue, from which the integral body/high capacity lithium-ion battery could be uncoupled to be placed in a charger.

At a price of 2200 Euro each i found them a bit to expensive to buy for the firm i was working for then, so eventually after testing ( ) i sent them back.
The company that sold these apparently had an even more powerful and expensive version that put out 6000 or 6200 Lumen, but i never saw that one in person.

[Zed]

The dark windows in the pictures belong to a former office that will be replaced by appartments in a couple of months, so no one was bothered during the testing of the Catapult.

Besides, a few years back i tested an experimental Swiss made HID flashlight, which looked a baseball bat with a soup bowl glued to the broad end.
That thing put out 5800 Lumen, and people came out of their houses when the beam passed their windows, 

5800!!?

Any pictures?

+1 to that!!

Something like this perhaps?

(Image removed from quote.)

 

   now thats a torch,