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Spec guide

Flashlight spec guide: what is typical

What counts as a lot, a little or typical for flashlights: medians, usual range (10th–90th percentile) and extremes of every numeric spec in the catalog.

Light output

Spec	Median	Typical range	Min – max	Models
Maximum output	1,000 lm	250 lm – 4,000 lm	50 lm – 20,000 lm	730
Peak beam intensity	14,400 cd	2,115 cd – 62,702 cd	760 cd – 294,310 cd	330
Beam distance (ANSI FL1)	204 m	70 m – 637 m	12 m – 2,900 m	494

LED & beam

Spec	Median	Typical range	Min – max	Models
Number of LEDs	3	1 – 18	1 – 51	164
Colour temperature	6,100K	3,000K – 6,500K	2,700K – 7,800K	214

Battery & charging

Spec	Median	Typical range	Min – max	Models
Number of batteries	2	1 – 3	1 – 6	77
Battery capacity	3,200 mAh	640 mAh – 6,000 mAh	200 mAh – 32,000 mAh	262
Maximum runtime	64 h	8.7 h – 260 h	3 h – 750 h	479
Charging time	3 h	1 h – 5.1 h	0.8 h – 8 h	79

Build & durability

Spec	Median	Typical range	Min – max	Models
Water protection (IPx)	IPx8	IPx4 – IPx8	IPx4 – IPx8	485
Submersible to	2 m	1 m – 2 m	1 m – 3 m	109
Impact resistance (drop)	1.5 m	1 m – 2 m	1 m – 2 m	124

Size & weight

Spec	Median	Typical range	Min – max	Models
Length / height	136 mm	67 mm – 185 mm	30 mm – 410 mm	280
Head diameter / width	39 mm	25 mm – 80 mm	11 mm – 370 mm	228
Body diameter / depth	29 mm	19 mm – 54 mm	12 mm – 165 mm	159
Weight	130 g	50 g – 451 g	12 g – 1,950 g	450

Modes & features

Spec	Median	Typical range	Min – max	Models
Brightness levels	4	3 – 6	2 – 20	101

Typical range = from the 10th to the 90th percentile of models in the catalog. Obvious data errors are excluded.