I'm not buying any flashlight less than 1MW.

Brave to stick your hand straight into a 98kW beam.

"It's out. [snort]" It's the snort that really sells it.

I'm impressed that a 160mAh battery was able to power a 98kW beam for more than 20ms

The fact that it required force to disassemble and didn't just fall apart actually puts it in the top tier of ebay torches

If you really could get 98kW from an instrument that size, the National Ignition Facility people would like to hear from you! They could replace all those expensive lasers and initiate fusion with a bunch of pen lights.

Technical team: It's 98mW Marketing team: Let's do a clever "typo"

This deserves a BFI Award. Brute Force and Ignorance.

My eyes still haven’t recovered from the mind blowing power of that torch

Can I suggest a plumber's pipe cutter to cut through the next thin circular casing.

"98 Kilowatts of disappointment". Me too. I wanted to see that irritating burnt squiggle made with the Temu gismo vaporised.

I must get one to point at my solar panels to charge my Tesla on a cloudy day.

Assuming the LED drops 3V, then the battery must supply 32,667A. With a capacity of 160mAh, the light produces 98kW for 4.8μs. Very impressive, I think we can all agree.

Brute Force and Ignorance™ would be a great name for a band.

I've used a 1/16 inch or 1.6mm drill bit held in a small pin vise, and I drill a small hole in the plastic. Then I screw a M3 or M2.5 by 6mm sheet metal screw into the hole I drilled. Now I have a 'handle' to grab onto with a pliers or dikes and give the plastic a strong pull. This allows getting inside to repair. 👍

Love clive's delicate little hands😊

This flashlight is so powerful you should be careful about the recoil

Hey China, THANKS for the flashing mode on torches - thats what was so missing in the last 100 years and thanks for the 'economic' construction so that, despite it not havinbg an incandescent filament, if you drop it once the thing stops working permanently. Thanks, just THANKS!!!

Ebay watts are on a slightly different scale to regular watts.

Thank you Clive, today is a good day for a smile 😊

The power of the sun in the palm of my hand

At 98kW that battery will last two-hundredths of a second. 😁

You're so good at brute force an ignorance. And peeling metal with circuit board trimers.

As a rule, I NEVER buy flashlights with non-replaceable batteries. It's just landfill-bound in short order otherwise.

This is just like those 300000 dB horns for sale on ebay and whatnot, enough power to completely decimate the entire universe and all of it's parallels tenfold in an instant for just 20 bucks! I wonder if one day these incredible ebay sellers will make a flashlight powerful enough to replace the sun when it dies in a billion years 🤔

The 9 million mAh power bank would be the perfect complement for this 98 kW LED flashlight. They should start selling them as a combo.

The power the Chinese can squeeze from a battery is amazing! Many years ago I bought a 2KW PMPO audio amplifier. All that power was supplied through a 12V 1A power adapter!

That J3Y transistor must contain some brand new super secret chinesium technology. Switching that awesome 98kW LED and not even getting warm... wow! 🤣

I have a similar, yet grossly less powerful lamp and unintentionally disassembled the sliding focusing bit in in a similar forceful manner. This also detached the led wires from the board. I was able to remove the cell via inertia(this involved the wires from it being torn off as well) and used a wooden dowel to punch the switch/charge end cap out from the inside without damage. After all the bits were extracted and connections repaired the light was reassembled and continues to function to this day.

Light sabre technology right here in 2024... Clive you are a lucky man. The Force is strong within you and your torch! 🌞 (What a bright guy!)

Hello mister BigClive You call it "brute force and ignorance" I think the Danes call it "British craftsmanship".. 😂😋🤗♥️

I really likes flashlights and i love when you upload a flashlight video have a nice week Clive.

Wow that's really powerful !

Very nice video, I enjoyed the humour you added.

Love it when eBay sellers forget the µ before the W

May the force be with you,Clive...

How does this come out? Pull. Oh, it's out. Not even the best that China has to offer, can match the power of a determined Scotsman! 😂

Only slightly? I best stick around for this one 🍿

It's 10 times the power of my electric shower 🤣🤣🤣🤣

At 98,000 Watts , this should bring down enemy drones with ease ... ( ? ) ............... DAVE™🛑

"Prepare the Photonic Cannon!"

"It's out..." Excellent!

Exaggeration of capability surpassed absurdity many years ago, but still apparently increasing. I recall the days when it was possible to rely on the power output figures of music centre manuals, in Watts RMS. But then they changed it to peak to peak, and now it seems like they think of a number and add a few zeros. I bought two audio amps a couple of years ago, rated vaguely at 1200W. Recently while the covers were removed I checked the output transistors - which were rated at a more realistic 100W

This surely comes from the same factory that also makes the infamous 600 dB car horns :-D

Thank you.

I run an escape room and I want to have a system where shining a UV torch on a puzzle will give you more context to it, so rather than just explain everything to kids over a clue, they can look at a picture that is invisible to non-idiots. I wanted a way of building my own rechargable uv torches and that schematic is going to help me loads!

I needed a torch last night. Walked across the living room and stubbed my foot on a metal trident. It was a toe sting fork.

The BLF A6 is my go-to flashlight, developed by budgetlightforum users, sadly discontinued so bought 3 when I last saw them on sale. A very tough 18650 powered Cree driven waterproof torch, the single click switch which has some nice features by half-pressing the button for 0.5 seconds; 7 brightness levels, strobe, battery charge level (1 blink=25%, 2 blinks=50% etc.), and a bike flashing mode.

So, if it gets any rain on, or in it, it'll never come out agian, great!... Nothing to stop it getting twisted and snapping the wires to the led off the board either 160mah?still 16 times bigger than what was in my smart meter!

i love it how big clive draws the lil arrows out of the LEDs like =3

Wow, I can't believe you didn't put on appropriate PPE before handling that death beam. What are those power wires made of? A new superconductor material of unknown origin ?

I have a fairly similar one. Got one for my gran and was impressed at the £4 price point. Mine does have the obligatory SOS mode when you hold the button in. Pretty bright too, was using it to find my way to a rave in the middle of a forest. might see if I can change the battery out with one or two of my street lithium cells.

I bought this exact torch but in black. It was reasonably cheap, but not cheap enough. I bought a Sofirn SC18 at the same time and I will say I the Sofirn is *amazing* value for money, while with this thing I felt was terrible value. I, of course took mine apart too. Managed to get the end cap out by leveraging from the charge port.

Wow! I'm going to get me one of those.

to be fair: i got two of them on ali just for the good focus.... (like

These lumen specs are like the range in a Tesla. But, I just purchased a Lumintop® GT4695 flashlight recently and remembered your video. If you get your hands on one, you might enjoy the advancements in their circuitry and design.

Thank you for showing a way to open this lamp! Now I know how to open my lamp without damage ... hopefully. The charging is medium smart. Over the 100 Ohm Resistor there is a current flow and this activates the transistor. With one pin it measures the voltage and if this is ~4.2V the pin which is going to the base of the transistor is switching to GND, so the current flow stops. Stupid is, that there is no current limitation, only the limitation of the power-supply and the wiring. With 160mAh there is very easy a overcurrent and very fast charging. Not good. It is worth to open this device.

The way you open some of these items reminds me of those old fashioned tin cans that have a "wingnut" that you twist to peel away a metal strip to open the can.

"Slightly exaggerated power rating" 🤣🤣

I’m holding out for the 98MW version.

It's actually quite clever industrial design.

I feel your level of sarcasm has risen to another level. 😂 i like it.

That's pretty close to interest territory of Photonic Induction!

I recently bought one of those radio transmitter kits, it was advertised as having a 50 milliwatt output but when it turned up it stated 50MW in the specs on the construction sheet that came with it. It's a real feat of engineering how much it's little output transistor is capable of, I will have offcom kicking my front door in with fifty million watts and an eye watering electric bill.

Our local Heritage Railway at Christmas time runs the Pola Express theme and the company who runs it gave away flash lights almost the same as your flash light and I have one. It has a main light and a side LED light. So press button once it's main beam with a siding bit to focus the light. Press twice and it strobe light. Press three and it's the side light. It only has about 50 minutes of light before I have to recharge it. But it was a free

THAT CASING STARTED TO FAINT WHEN IT SAW YOU COMING!!!

As a European, 98,000 Watt is, well, just shy of 100 watt. Keep in mind that we use the comma as the decimal separatator instead of the US customary thousand separator. And while that is _wildly_ off the mark for this form factor, getting 100 watt-ish output from a high quality 18650 cell is not that unrealistic.

Hi Clive, Great video as always. I must admit to liking these little torches and have quite a few. I was wondering if you could help me find some good quality solder wire leaded at a decent price. Most of the cheap solder on eBay is crap (sludgey and dull with a high melting temperature), but the quality solder wire seems outrageously expensive at over £50.00 or more for a 500 Grams Reel. Do you know a source of decent priced quality Solder Wire? Many thanks Clive. Keep well and stay safe, Joe

Maybe it's 98kW EIRP (Equivalent isotropic radiated power), incandescent equivalent, using whatever method they use to rate shop vac motors at 6.5 horsepower? In other words, what is the power of an incandescent bulb that shines in all directions with the same brightness as the focused beam of the flashlight, but at initial power on when the filament is cold and draws more power?

I had a great laugh at the power of that amazing flashlight. Given that 100kW laser systems are used to cut metal, etc., and are the size of a large pick up truck. I’m just impressed by the micro miniaturization that they obviously managed to accomplish. 😂

Serviceable, I am up for that

I was looking forward to a maximum power test on the LED. Just to see what the max sustained power it could handle was. I suspect the controller PWM limits the current.

These small flashlights are all the same. I bought a couple of these a few years ago. They look different but the insides are identical. They don´t last very long but they are a great help.

I'd bought three copies of a single-AA-cell flashlight from a local store, a few years ago, and had to modify ALL of them because they didn't have a wide enough beam. Fortunately, all metal, so I just needed to unscrew the ring holding the front lenses on, slide a ring made of aluminum wire in behind the LED's backplate, and close everything back up again. Now my only complaint is how dim it gets when the battery gets halfway used...

If I'm not mistaken the most powerful commercially-available "flashlight" is something like 1kW, is much larger, and has cooling fans. 98kW is an order of magnitude than even styropyro would do.

I always wondered if a good quality cell would kill the LED as it packs a "little bit" more punch into the circuit when powered on. I have several cheap USB rechargeable lights, just like that, for emergency. They do their job well, even after a few years, but I wonder if the LED current limit is done by the usage of 800mAh 18650 cells 😊

Amazon has a huge number of misrepresented flashlights of varying degrees of quality. Sometimes you'll get lucky and get a decent flashlight, but the odds are stacked against you. Generally their components are very similar to the one you took apart in this video. A "high power" grid LED connected to a minimalist circuit and a poor quality lithium battery all stuffed in a cylindrical case. Some of the flashlight cases are quite decent quality in order to give a better feel and appearance to the flashlight. The brightness is generally on the order of 1000 lumens. The postings, however, will claim 100k to 1 million lumens. The posting will also almost always over-estimate the battery capacity to sometimes absurd levels. This problem also applies to lasers listed on Amazon. However, in the case of lasers, this is very dangerous. Also, unlike the flashlights, the misrepresentation can often be an under-representation rather than over. This means that a green LED laser will claim a Class 2 "safe" < 1mW rating, while actually being dangerously high. This is because, like the flashlight circuit you disassembled, there is no current regulation going to the LED. I have a class 3 25mW green laser off Amazon that, at full charge, is close to 500mW and _will_ injure eyes across a gymnasium.

Perhaps the space for the extra LED near the charging indicator is to hold an LED to indicate the power is on. If the company may use the board for more than product then the need for such an indicator may be required. An LED to tell tell the user that a flashlight is turned on would seem to be rather redundant. (Unless the flashlight was emitting non visible light, such as infrared.)

Apart from the underspec battery it's actually quite a nice product

I was doing time at Riker's for 3 years and have missed a ton of episodes. What caused the wormy/wiggly burn mark on BC's workbench?

It's a typo. It was supposed to be a "m" not a "k" 😂 98kW -> 98mW

Nice.

1:36 Bro used bruteforce Attack And all guys were like, yeess, me too

Wow you could see that beam from the moon!

160mAh 4.2V battery That's great, it's giving you around a full 25ms of 98kW powa

I bought a copule of those in Aliexpress. The model with an extral pretty decent cob led on the side (that might explain the very little battery chosen), which used sideways are good headlamps with a 3d printend strap. Sadly, the battery is so tiny they run out of juice in a couple minutes. Pretty bad. I have them demoted as emercency units gathering dust in "that flashlaight drawer" in case lights go out (to use to hopefully run long enough to just find the proper 18650 based flashlights that I literally carry around every day. Of those 1860 ones, I have a also Chinese Convoy S2+ that I love, last years in a sensible power mode, and gives proper uumph when set high. Sadly it has a "programmable" driver that can be set to roll through several blinking modes that I hate. Is there a way to hack those MCUs into different modes? That might be an interesting video there (interesting only to me, I mean). "...by brute force and ignorance" finally a name for tecnique and set of skills I was born with! Educative and brilliant, as always. Thanks!

Amazing 98kW didn’t vaporize your work bench!

I have pretty much the same flashlight but it is black... and also UV. Mine has a problem with the micro USB port where it gets pushed in when I try to plug a charger to it so it has no contact. Now I know... I don't prefer the use of foam as a way to stop PCB from moving back and forward. But it is a cheap way to make a cheap flashlight so I get it. So the only problem is that I cannot charge it... and that is an issue.

Finally! A weapon to surpass Metal Gear!

I've broken several of those blue-handle "can openers", the blade snaps and whizzes off at great velocity. Wear your eye protection!

You need to get a c-clamp style tubing cutter, like what's used for copper pipe. That would make short, clean work of things like this.

It's a very precise continental flashlight

It's amazing how they manage to make it so scrunchy. Normally it takes decades of exposure to heat, UV and/or ozone to get that. And they managed it with aluminium, no less.

It's a shame it didn't come in your trademark fetching pink.

Cannot say i am surprised, i got ripped off buying one of these supposedly (light up the side of a building or the whole street type mag light). Seemed like a good idea, as i use a rudementry version as my pushbike headlight. Can only be better? or so i thought. What turned up is in fact a mini light, suitable for a handbag maybe to help you see your keyhole, but also no return address, well only in Chinese, nothing in image to show scale, the advertised one at £17:00 looked great for what i wanted, but shown as being larger than the user's hand, whereas mine is about 2 inches long, no adjustment other than, on flash, S.O.S. so relegated to bedside table in case of power cut.

torque test channel Need to test this!!!

Was there a way to cross-reference the main led to a clone or a Cree type, I understand that there are many types, but did it look familiar?

When did LEDs begin rated in watts instead of lumens? +1 for the snort.

That would've been my Blue Peter drawing of future tech, lipstick sized, pocket torch with an output of 98kW (lasting several hours) that would illuminate an entire field. Useful for the police ....

I have only 24 kW service to my house! And this little thing is 4 times that!? I'm jealous! LOL! (And I might only need 3 kW on a BAD summer afternoon)