1000 lumens is a lot

by bj , Monday, October 10, 2016, 19:30 (2904 days ago) @ stonewalrus

That's a good output level for outdoors use. It must be a little fat with 4xAA but I've seen bigger. My nephew has a Nitecore (I think) that uses 3 fat rechargeable batteries and puts out maybe 3000 lumens. It's sized almost like a soft drink can.

For fairly cheap you can buy lights in Home Depot and Lowes that put out 1000 lumens, but they are big and take 2 or 3 D-cells.

I've got a Fenix with 220 lumens and another with 320 Lumens. The latest versions of those models put out 500 and 900 lumens. Unfortunately they become outdated fast. Actually 200 is pretty good indoors and 300 is not bad outdoors, but if you can get 1000 then it's that much better.