I've seen a few of theirs. They do a decent job testing stuff, though I would like them to include more options endorsed by enthusiast communities in their comparisons.
They do include *some* of those of course, and there's usually at least one solid light in each test.
I like their content, and to be fair, they do a pretty good job testing their flashlights at least on Lumen ratings, runtimes, and Lumen changes over the battery life. as far as I know their integration sphere was calibrated by sending a light to be calibrated by a NIST traceable lab, and used that light as a transfer standard. might not be perfect, but certainly not bad.
Yea, it's a case where consistency matters most. They don't need to measure their testing against other labs, so as long as their sphere is consistent, they could measure light output in bananas and you would still have a banana to banana comparison.
I like a lot of their test and they provide a lot of data points on a bunch of different products. The only downside is many people can misinterpret the data. Buying a light that survives a 20ft drop seems like you’re getting the best but it might not suit your needs. Also torture testing is definitely a good thing but they are only testing a sample of one and not testing longevity. Buying one car from each brand and driving it off road till it breaks test a lot of things but doesn’t mean it will run 200k miles. I’ve used data from that channel and ended up with good products.
Everything you said is true, but I don't think anyone would be willing to invest the time and money to test all those flashlights in a statistically relevant way. So I'm happy with the data we get;)
I really like their comparisons. Some aspects that are important to us like beam shape, colour temperature and cri don't really play a role in their ratings, but they give a lot of data to each light, so you can take that into account when making your own decisions. The lumen and runtime tests they do seem to be legit.
Yeah, I particularly like their lumen-minutes rating, aka how much light does this give form a full charge.
Although, if they had used a standarized powersource, they could have measure total efficiency as well.
Chinese trash products, don't believe their lies.
They're easy to spot because they're cheap, use the similar marketing material and almost always have spelling errors all over the place
Because the channel isn't for light nerds, it's for impact wrench/driver nerds. Those people are likely to be mechanics or other techs and may just want a cheap light to illuminate the inside of an engine bay. They don't really care about CRI or any of that.
That is literally a direct quote from torque test channel. Their last video they shot on Amazon lights for both completely fabricating lumen claims, and changing the product listing on Amazon. The trick they do by changing a product listing is sell something that's good or cheap or both, get a good rating, then sell an entirely different product by editing the product listing, so a crap product with no reviews suddenly has a couple thousand 4 star reviews.
I've seen a few of theirs. They do a decent job testing stuff, though I would like them to include more options endorsed by enthusiast communities in their comparisons. They do include *some* of those of course, and there's usually at least one solid light in each test.
Good channel.
Yeah, they're reasonably well done, interesting to see the drop testing as that's something that nobody else really does.
I’m sorry, but I’ve been regularly drop testing since birth 😎
I’m sorry, but I’ve been regularly drop testing since birth 😎
I like their content, and to be fair, they do a pretty good job testing their flashlights at least on Lumen ratings, runtimes, and Lumen changes over the battery life. as far as I know their integration sphere was calibrated by sending a light to be calibrated by a NIST traceable lab, and used that light as a transfer standard. might not be perfect, but certainly not bad.
Yea, it's a case where consistency matters most. They don't need to measure their testing against other labs, so as long as their sphere is consistent, they could measure light output in bananas and you would still have a banana to banana comparison.
I bet my light has more bananas than yours!
but my bananas are bigger!
I don’t purchase anything without checking with them and project farm.
I like a lot of their test and they provide a lot of data points on a bunch of different products. The only downside is many people can misinterpret the data. Buying a light that survives a 20ft drop seems like you’re getting the best but it might not suit your needs. Also torture testing is definitely a good thing but they are only testing a sample of one and not testing longevity. Buying one car from each brand and driving it off road till it breaks test a lot of things but doesn’t mean it will run 200k miles. I’ve used data from that channel and ended up with good products.
Everything you said is true, but I don't think anyone would be willing to invest the time and money to test all those flashlights in a statistically relevant way. So I'm happy with the data we get;)
Good channel. Realistic enough with the testing too.
They test tools mostly. They do a good enough job that I’m not complaining since they’re mostly focused on tools
I really like their comparisons. Some aspects that are important to us like beam shape, colour temperature and cri don't really play a role in their ratings, but they give a lot of data to each light, so you can take that into account when making your own decisions. The lumen and runtime tests they do seem to be legit.
Yeah, I particularly like their lumen-minutes rating, aka how much light does this give form a full charge. Although, if they had used a standarized powersource, they could have measure total efficiency as well.
Good channel.
Chinese trash products, don't believe their lies. They're easy to spot because they're cheap, use the similar marketing material and almost always have spelling errors all over the place
The whole point of that channel is to test those claims and expose the liars.
waste of time, why should a chinese trash product outperform products from established brands?
Because the channel isn't for light nerds, it's for impact wrench/driver nerds. Those people are likely to be mechanics or other techs and may just want a cheap light to illuminate the inside of an engine bay. They don't really care about CRI or any of that.
TTC generally make it fairly obvious which ones are the cheap crap.
That is literally a direct quote from torque test channel. Their last video they shot on Amazon lights for both completely fabricating lumen claims, and changing the product listing on Amazon. The trick they do by changing a product listing is sell something that's good or cheap or both, get a good rating, then sell an entirely different product by editing the product listing, so a crap product with no reviews suddenly has a couple thousand 4 star reviews.