ThruNite LED Flashlight Rechargeable, Catapult Mini 598 Meters Long Throw, High 680 Lumens Searchlight for Law Enforcement, Search and Rescue, Emergency Signaling, EDC and Land Management

Update: The bulb seems to have died. The button still lights up, it was showing that it could charge but now it wont. :-( ------- Update: Bought this in 2022 and I still have and use it today! ------- I love this little flashlight. Its small and compact but it packed quite the punch! It can see things real far away that your average flashlight cant but thats bc its purposely made to be more if a pinpoint projection. It also has some other handy features like shining its absolute brightest brightness, a strobe function to act as a deterrent and an SOS pattern. Other than that it's a very simple operation, one button that changes colors to tell you what it's doing and it has a built-in dust cover to protect the charging port and give you a longer life out of it. Its a little heavy for its size but I like that bc it makes it feel durable and worthy, not cheap like all the others. However I see they want $30 more now than what I paid back in 2022, unless they somehow upgraded it since, I don't think I would want to pay 80 bucks for it now.

Amazing little flashlight. You can notice the high quality aluminum, pretty solid and super portable. Fits well in your hands.

I have accumulated a lot of flashlights over the years. All serve different purposes of course but this little flashlight is a great thrower in a tiny package. With the standard battery, I actually think it is too small. So I used a samsung 18650 battery and the extension tube and now it is the perfect size. I have thrower flashlights that cost 3x as much and honestly, they are only marginally better than this little guy. It has become my favorite thrower flashlight as it is so compact, I can carry it very easily. I've used it hunting, hiking and the wife has used it on her walks and it does a great job. The central hotspot is very long reaching and the spill area gives a nice mid range wider light. Even on medium, the thing will light up 100 yards. When you see how tiny it is, and how far it lights up... any flashlight fan should consider adding one to your collection. I have an o-light that cost me twice as much and is not as powerful. This light is well built and is working really well so far. I will update if things change but for now... I have it a two thumbs up.

Just bought my second one since I lost the first. Very bright and small even with the extension tube on. Bright strobe effect. Love the extension tube to be able to use an 18650. On this particular one though I had to reach in with a needle nose pliers and extend/stretch the spring in the base. (And yes, the light is fully screwed shut.) Seems like this particular spring was out of spec. This particular unit had extra play inside the battery tube causing the light to flicker and go on and off like there was a short. After the quick fix the light is perfect. No more loose battery.

Good stuff: - Extremely bright and long-reaching for such a small light. - Impressively even color; I don't see any yellow/blue fringes or other nonuniformities at all, which is fairly rare. - Convenient to charge with USB-C, requiring no external battery charger. - Extension tube lets you trade a bit of compactness for roughly double runtime if you want. Bad stuff: - No pocket clip. I guess it's a bit on the bulky side for carrying in your pocket, but if it had a pocket clip, I would use it. The fact that it doesn't makes it awkward to carry on my person, so it mainly lives in my backpack. - Confusing one-button controls. While you can access turbo and firefly modes directly, you have to cycle through the low/medium/high settings to select one of them, meaning that you can end up being forced to jump straight from firefly to high before you can select low. I really wish we could escape from this madness and just have separate "brighter" and "dimmer" buttons, but alas. - Rapidly overheats when used at both of its top two settings, giving only 20 seconds in turbo mode and 60 seconds in high mode before stepping back to about 600 lumens. The turbo mode doesn't bother me; 20 seconds at 2500 lumens is pretty useful, and it would be silly to expect such a tiny light to handle so much power for much longer than that. However, I do kind of expect high mode on a flashlight to be a "maximum sustained power" setting, and it's really not that here. Strangely, this flashlight doesn't even seem to have such a setting, as medium mode is about half the brightess of high mode after it steps down. - Requires a top-notch battery. I tried putting an 18650 from my Nitecore headlamp in it with the extension tube, but I guess this has trouble delivering enough power to run the turbo mode. As a result, trying to use turbo mode seems to "crash" the flashlight, resulting in a brief bright flash of light followed by completely unresponsive controls until I take the battery out and put it back in. I get that it's sort of my fault for using a substandard battery, but I wish the light could handle this situation a bit more gracefully (i.e. by dimming down) instead of becoming temporarily unusable.

Man does this thing throw some light! Very tight focused beam with almost no spill its like a white laser. It's not for everyone but living in a urban area I like being able to light up something at a distance without having any spill. It's not very practical for edc but definitely has its place. Awesome battery life and love the usb c charging port. I've yet to run it down far enough where it takes very long to charge it back up to full. I was finally able to really test its capabilites to the fullest by heading up to a lookout point at a local lake where there is almost no light pollution. I was absolutely amazed at how far it throws. It was actually able to reach the other side of the spillway. I only have two gripes and that is I wish they sold an 18650 battery tube not necessarily for better battery life but it would make it easier to hold...its slightly awkward because it's so short. I definitely recommend the lanyard it comes with. The other is there is a small amount of parasitic drain caused by the user interface. If you are regularly using and charging it this won't be an issue but if you plan to charge it and leave it in your car for a month and decide you need it this isn't the light for you. It's a very small amount of drain and wouldn't be an issue unless it's been a couple weeks. Overall super happy with this one!

LOVE THIS LIGHT. great little pocket thrower. usually a fan of flood lights but wanted a thrower and this did not disappoint. pretty good range for how small it is. my kids love to use it when camping. it a little uncomfortable in your pocket so i usually keep it in a bag.

Ok, this is really small for how far this thing can throw light; quite amazing for the size. It's well built, charges on usb-c, and has quite the run time. It's plenty bright on low mode for walking down a poorly lit street. The beam's so concentrated that 21 lumens shines like 100 lumens of flood light. Unfortunately the concentrated beam also poses the issue that the bright beam is narrow and only light us a tiny area with closeups. You can ramp up the mode, but I've found that it often drowns out what you're trying to light up. The only downside to the light is that it's not pocket friendly and doesn't come with a clip nor a sheath. Although it has the narrow body size, the wide head makes it very uncomfortable in the pocket and constantly bumps into things outside the pocket. I really wish they'd make an upgrade with a smaller diameter head, or at least a sturdy sheath or clip allowing for belt carry or to clip it to anything you like. I can say that clips for 21700 battery lights are too slim for this light, so try elsewhere. What's good with a product if you can't carry and use it? Due to the issue with carrying the light, I've returned it for a full refund.