ThruNite Catapult Mini Pro LED Search Light 565m Long Rechargeable Flashlight 2588 Lumens with Battery Extension Tube for Search and Rescue, EDC

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.

Decent Flashlight till I bought the Wurkkos TS11 for half the price and was equal on high, definitely brighter when both on Turbo. I made the mistake of using the lanyard included and it broke after about the 9th use. I figured I'd try customer service because I was in middle of making a review video. They actually wrote back asked me if I had my eye on any other lights cuz the catapult mini pro was out of stock and then told me after I purchase would give me a 10% discount lol. I would of rather them of just told me nothing we can do then the back and forth.

Powerful little light.