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Armytek's updated measurements

Armytek has sustained a considerable amount of (IMO deserved) criticism on their own CPF forum for the way they've handled their measurements, documentation and product rollouts. I just dropped back in on CPF for the first time in months and learned that Armytek has updated some measurements on their product pages; new measurements for throw in particular.

Armytek's old figure for the XP-L HI Dobermann was 450 meters which wasn't credible. They have revised it to 381 meters which is very credible; and decent for a light that size.

The new figure for the XP-L HI Predator is 437 meters down from the previous figure of 540 meters. Which means u/emarkd really nailed it when measuring an XP-L HI Predator at 438 meters! Very nice.

It looks like they no longer specify emitter temperature, which is disappointing but it's better than what they were doing which was slapping the same two figures (5500K and about 4700K I think I recall) on every cool white and warm white model when it was apparent there was more variation than that.

[EDIT] Perhaps I should have said Armytek nailed the 437 meter figure by coming within a meter of u/emarkd's figure.

Posted Oct 1, 2016, 9:24 AM UTC · edited

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