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Old March 15th, 2016, 16:38   #6
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Originally Posted by AnthonyG View Post
Given that I've been looking at flashlights lately, I'm curious how many Lumens people are using. I have a fenix PD35, and although it goes up to 960lm it has 5 lower settings. I usually use the 460lm setting. I see a lot of surefires in the 100-200lm range which seems low to me?

Using benchmarks for architectural lighting, 800-900lm is a standard lightbulb, 50lm is minimum for reading anything without straining to see.

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Those benchmarks don't quite apply, here. 1-200lm is fine for fighting and nav. I personally mount two lights, one in the 1-200lm range and one 500lm+. One is for actually illuminating things, the other is used offensively for CQB suppression and area denial.
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