Thrunite TN36 Review / Field Test - 6510 Lumens Flashlight

Hello there welcome back to my channel. In this video I'm going to be reviewing a flashlight which I bought recently through Amazon. This fella, now this sort of can sized mofo is the ThruNite TN36 and it's an absolute monster. Over six and a half thousand lumens which if I'm honest lumens mean nothing to me. Higher numbers are better obviously bit like candle power but all I can tell you is This is, this is damn damn bright. Like all the ThruNites, it comes with a good case, Velcro access, belt loop, D-clip for hanging various places. Very good, but very standard. This is what we're really here to talk about. This is a heavy, big flashlight. I was going to swear there, because it is a big thing. And the light that's generated from this is like having a supernova in your pocket. It's unbelievably bright. Three LEDs in there. 28650 batteries fit inside the body, inside this cradle, and like the bigger ThruNites, it does take these big batteries, high capacity. Got grease on here, smells quite nice, with a seal, and when that's screwed down, this is 100% waterproof. Nice grippy checkering on the body, security wrist strap, pretty much all the things you'd expect From a good quality flashlight. And it's got one button. On the top, which accesses all of your modes, and I'll run through those for you now. So we've got the very dim mode, Firefly mode, for navigation in pitch dark when you don't really need a massive light output to find your way on the path or through trees. So going from Firefly mode, if we keep this button held in longer, it'll cycle through various brightness settings. Bam, and then back to the very dull one. We can access another setting, which is like a secret level, by a quick double press of this button, which is ultimately super bright, and that one's turbo mode. Now, I've found that when you've got that turbo mode on, if you leave that on for a few minutes, Not only will it devour the batteries, but it also heats up this whole end cap. Something terrible. But then again, something terrible might be something excellent in the winter when you want to warm your hands. It's like having a portable hand warmer. Like quite a lot of other flashlights out there, it also has a strobe setting as well, so anybody of photosensitive disposition may want to look away now. I find it a little bit tricky to get into this strobe setting. Switch it on. Double press to go into turbo, double press again to go into strobe. I would have really liked to have seen just on to strobe straight away, but I'm not quite sure how you would do that. You'd possibly need another button, or maybe if it was in turbo, if you held it, it would then go into strobe. I'm not sure, but that's a little bit tricky to access. As far as a hunter goes... It's not very convenient to get into that strobe setting. Sometimes when you get rabbits or foxes running, you might want to put them in strobe, really disorientate them, get them to stop. You've got to fart about quite a lot to get it into strobe. So it's not too good for hunters. Excellent for my kids messing around in the house because they go... like this in the strobe. Luckily, neither of them suffer from epilepsy. You'll see the results of the night time test in a moment, but a quick round up is that this is a damn heavy torch. Output is unbelievable. I mean it literally is like it's having like a full power hunting lamp in your pocket. It lights up an incredible area, but as a hunter I would like to see that huge lit up area brought down into a spot. I'm not quite sure how you would do that, but some sort of focusing mechanism on here. I don't know whether it's possible, especially with three LEDs, you might have to enlarge that. I really don't know. I'd like to see it brought down to a spot for lamping. And also, unless you're assaulting some terrorist base, I can't really see why you would need the strobe. Now, because these are primarily marketed towards the outdoor types, like myself, Something that would be a lot more useful for me personally, and I guess for a lot of you guys watching this, would be to remove the strobe option and put SOS in there instead. So when you press that, instead of it going bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang in strobe, and possibly causing any of your rescuers to suffer a fit, in my opinion it would be better if it had dot dot dot dash dash dash dot dot dot S O S. Anybody around the world who's been involved with Scouts, Guides, Cubs, Mountain Rescue, any of the forces anywhere in the world will recognize that signal because it's international SOS. Exceptionally useful to have this here. So let's take a look how it does in Darkness. I've picked two different places. One is a mine tunnel where I know it is absolutely pitch black. There's no light infiltrating there at all. I'll give you an idea of how it lights up somewhere that's confined. And I'll also be testing it from the balcony where my log cabin is above the pond. And I'll be trying to light up all of this on a night. Now, given the limited nature of normal camcorders, light gathering capabilities. it needs to be pitch black for you to get a good impression of what i'm actually seeing when i'm using this flashlight so i've chosen that tunnel there behind me because i know in there it's absolutely pitch black so hopefully with this lovely flashlight i'll be able to bring you a true impression of what i'm actually seeing when i'm using it at the different power settings that's how dark it is in here okay that's the least powerful setting on the tn36 Perfectly suitable for seeing things close to you, making sure you stay on the right path through woodland and so on. Switch it up to high. Ooh, that lights up the whole lot. No problem at all. Give it a quick go on turbo. Bang! That's even brighter. My God. That's lighting it up. It's literally like daylight in here. That's awesome. We're gonna put it in strobe now to see what sort of effect it gives in absolute darkness. So if you do suffer from epilepsy or think you may, skip past this bit. It'll be on for about 10 seconds. That's bright and flashy. I don't want to suffer a seizure in here. I may never be found. So I'd better switch that off. Okay, this is looking across my pond in my garden. Approximately 35 yards to those trees at the back there. And it seems to be lighting up quite a lot of that. The camera won't be picking up all the peripheral light, but you can see it's lighting up quite a lot. It's doing well. And that's on full power, not turbo. That's on turbo. And even on the viewfinder there I can see that makes a hell of a difference. So hopefully you can notice the difference on the video. That has really lightened up the whole damn pond and everything in the wood. That's bright. That is hellish bright. In fact it's so bright it's just caused that cockchafer beetle to crash land here at my feet. Unbelievable. It flew straight towards the flashlight and then crash landed on my deck. Let him fly off. Turn this off, let him go. Now in the summer, I'm going to test this fella in there. I'm going to put the dry suit on, use the underwater camera, and I'm going to swim underneath there with a torch, check its waterproof capabilities. We all know they're waterproof. We've seen them in numerous videos being chucked in the stream. They still work underwater. I want to try and get that on video, though. And I know for a fact there's a little trout live under there, so that should make quite a good video. And hopefully something of this power will light the whole lot up. Water is crystal clear, should make a cracking video, so look out for that one. Taking cost out of the equation and not mentioning cost, is this a good flashlight? Yes. How can I say no? Yes, it is. All the different settings, I'm not quite sure about the strobe, I can't see the point in that. Now, as with all the ThruNites, I would like to see coloured filters. Available for these, they wouldn't cost much to produce, and I've mentioned that ThruNite, they are looking into it, that would make it excellent for woodland, because something of this brightness in woodland, when you're trying to see far through the trees, it's just simply too bright, you get too much reflected light. The red filter on here, you'd be able to filter all that out and be able to see way through the trees, way up into the branches. It would really transform this and make it very suitable for hunters, especially if they're out in pairs. One was operating this because it can't fix to your rifle, it's just too damn heavy. And the other one with the rifle. So one operating lamp, one operating rifle. Very discreet as well. By discreet, I don't mean it's suitable for poaching. Just discreet, fits in your pocket or hangs on your belt. You haven't got wires and straps and all that crap. A really good, compact, ridiculously high output flashlight. And the construction of this is excellent, absolutely excellent. Fully waterproof. Now this is heavy, too heavy for everyday carry. And I did see a comment on somebody else's video when someone said, I use one of these in my EDC bag. And I'm thinking, how big is your EDC bag if you've got this? That's a ridiculous choice. It's meant for lighting up large areas with high-intensity light. It's not an EDC tool at all. Now, when I bought the TN36, it came in this wonderful quality box. When I opened it up, I found out it's got two spare seals and a spare rubber for the switch. Instructions, guarantee, et cetera, et cetera. And then I picked up the flashlight out of the box and I thought, that seems a little bit light. That's good. Really nice, lightweight, and obviously incredibly powerful flashlight. Went to turn it on. Hold on, what the hell's on here? No batteries. Doesn't come with batteries unless you specify that when you buy it. So I got a bit of a shock there. So I actually got four through-night batteries. I also ordered four spares as well because I've got a hunting lamp. I've got a TN12 and now the TN36, all of which take 18650 batteries, so I bought those ones. Fox Novo, same sort of spec, the ThruNite ones, which in themselves are just ThruNite wrapped over Panasonic batteries, so they're based on Panasonic. They all fit the ThruNites very well, they also fit my existing lamp, which I think is from Cluelight. So it's always worth getting some spares. Yes, it will cost you the earth, or something like that, and eight batteries, but looking long-term, it's well worth doing. So would I recommend it, based on the fact that I actually bought this thing? Yes, I would. If I thought I'd wasted my money, I wouldn't recommend it. But this is something that's going to last me for years and years. Very pleased with it, indeed. Thanks for watching. Check out my other reviews on my channel. See you next time. It's like having a portable supernova in your pocket. Absolutely awesome, though, and it hasn't been on for long. It's a TN-36, but at the bottom it's got how far the beam goes. Two hundred and ninety. 299 metres. Why didn't they just say 300? Because I don't think anybody's going to check and pull them up on the fact that it only goes 299 and not 300. 300 would have looked so much more impressive.