We all know flashlights are round boring tubes.
You're like that sounds kinda weird for a dude who runs a channel that poops reviews
about round boring tubes.
Ok fair enough.
Then I if I said what if a flashlight didn't have to be a boring tube- you'd probably correctly
guess that I was about to show you a flashlight that wasn't a tube, because you saw the thumbnail,
and maybe I've just run out of creative review hooks.
Alright screw it... let me introduce you to the Eye of Sekhmet, brought flashlight maker
Silent Thunder Ordnance... the light is named after Egyptian goddess of war who creates
dessert with her breath- if I'm remembering the Wikipedia entry correctly.
�It's a unique flashlight, rechargeable by a USB, made from classy materials, with
a unique optic and beam pattern.
Which is not quite like any other light you own, unless you already own one of these.
Ok so the Sekmet has the basic footprint of a smartphone, but with a large compound optic...
found in some telescopes, and other things, called a Catadioptric.
The optic has unique characteristics, that give the flashlight an intense hotspot of
focused light with a very wide dim spill... its sort of like if you combined the flood
mode and focus mode of a aspheric flashlight- you know the zooming kind- like the Brinyte
B158 I reviewed a few years ago.
So it's a very throwy flashlight without the long large reflectors required by conventional
flashlights.
Now the Eye of Sekhmet is a customizeable light with various emitters that range from
the throwy to the ultrathrowy, meaning over 250,000 candela... which if you've watched
my videos is about the same amount of throw as my Nitecore TM16GT or Acebeam T20.
The lights are built to order with a variety of exotic woods, and can be backed with copper
or alumium.
The large surface on the back of the light functions as a heatsink for the turbocharged
LED... copper handles heat the best, but you can get alummum too for lighter weight, and
less expensive options.
My particular light uses a copper back and standard cherry wood, and is called the hex
variant due to it's use of the Nichia 319a, which is a hex shaped LED emitter, and will
set you back a little over $150.
In the box you get the light and card individually certifying the candela of each light.
How about output levels.
This light uses a custom firmware known among the flashlight world as LD-3... which gives
you a variety of mode options.
I enabled moonlight mode and Low Mid and High... making it a four mode flashlight.
You can add stobes make it a 6 mode light with moonlight.
If you enable moonlight it will add an extra mode to the light.
Also it should be noted that Silent Thunder Ordnance used LED lumens on their product
page and not ANSI lumens.
First is Moonlight.
Then is low.
Then is Mid.
Then is High.
I enabled a thermally triggered step down in the firmware to keep the light from kepping
too hot for my tender hands.
Now the UI.
The UI is highly programmable... you can set your max current- which would be helpful for
conserving battery levels on high modes... make the light 1 mode or up to 6 modes...
enable or disable mode memory- by the way the mode memory is that awesome kind where
you don't have to have the light off or on for a few seconds to get it to save... so
you can turn it off and turn it on pretty quickly and have it save mode memory... you
can also reverse mode order from low to high to high to low, add strobes if there's something
wrong with you...
anyway...
I have 3 modes plus moonlight... ordered from low to high.
Click once to turn it on... then quick half presses to advance modes from moon to low
to mid to high and so on and back again.
Pretty simple right.
Alright I'l show you how to operate programming mode quickly...
I highly recommend you read the linked firmware page below- because that's I how I figured
it out.
To get into programming mode... first have an idea what setting you want to change...
here's what you change.
Ok.. so I want to change mode groups... that's sub menu 2.
To get into programming turn the light on.
Then 10 really quick half presses gets you into programming modes... you see a quick
flash... now if I want to get sub menu 2 which affects modes another 2 quick presses.
It then blinks twice to confirm I'm in sub menu 2... if I was adding strobes and went
to sub menu 7 it would then blink 7 times to confirm I was there...
Ok... let's say I want to add 5 modes...
I count which option that is... which is 7 if you count cancel...half presses 7 times...
it'll blink 7 times to say I added option 7.
Then it goes back to main programming menu... and I can further tweak the options of just
gtfo menu.
I half press 10 times to exit... the same way I entered programming.
It'll do a flicker and turn off...
now I have a total of 6 modes... remember moonlight counts as an additional mode...
and I wanted 5 modes.
Alright...
The firmware is easy to use...
let's move on.
Ok runtimes.
Silent Thunder Ordnance says the internal battery is a 1500 mah battery.
I found charging with a standard micro USB cable, after a runtime test or full depletion
of the battery took just over two hours.
I started putting a lux meter in the frame.
the lux meter basically just reads the light- don't get hung up on the number... whatever
it starts out as let's call that 100% and when it's totally black that would be zero.
By the way after the third character there is a decimal- so the maximum value it can
read would be 199.9.
I don't feel like doing the math- that's your job.
I know it's not scientific, but I'm no scientist.
High.
Via the firmware I set high to a temperature I felt was comfortable to hold... you can
set yours and different ambient temps will affect how long before it steps down.
A step down is a hard cut in brightness.
At about 4 minutes in the total output cuts in half.
Remember per the ANSI FL1 standards the flashlight is not supposed to be rated at startup...
but about 30 seconds in which I measure all my ratings.
So about 30 seconds in would technically be about 100% of measured brightness per FL1
standards.
I think that number would have been 144 at 30 seconds in.
The Sekhmet holds it brightness steady after the 4 minut4e step down till about 48 minutes,
then it starts dimming and cuts off at 49 minutes.
Mid.
As you can see mid hold it's brightness between just a few percentage points... for most of
it's runtime.
The firmware of the light allows the driver to apply a constant current to the light,
and it sustains this level of brightness for about 1 hour and 15 minutes... then it dims
and straight up ghosts you at 1 hour and 19 minutes.
Low.
Low runs for a constant brightness for a long time.
Remember there are multiple emitter options, so picking out a different emitter in theory
could make runtimes shorter or longer.
That's good right?
It runs for a total of 9 hours and 58 minutes.
Ok beamshots.
�Here are the lights I'll be comparing it to.
�All look normal except the Eye.
The official flashlight of the illuminate or .. GLOBALIST... or free masons or whatever,
just buy this flashlight and you'll be in the club.
First up is the eye... it has a unique hexagon pattern because it's a Nichia 319... if you
don't like the hex pattern then you don't like Nichia 319a that's the way they come...
get a different emitter if you want more throw or more lumens... there's four options on
the product page which details color temp and candela.
Next is the brinyte B158... now this is modded version of that light... its brighter and
has much more throw than the stock B158- but Eye of Sekhmet can be outfitted with an emitter
option of mode candela and lumens.
Now the Convoy C8, which I reviewed very recently... about the same candela as the Eye... both
are considered Neutral white lights.
They're both throwers, so again, they're kind of better for long range stuff.
These lights work best for lighting up stuff up to 400ish feet away... if you want longer
range go with the night piercer or high lumen option of the Eye.
Now the Astrolux Kronos copper... not near as throwy, but it's a tiny cute little copper
light.
Back to the Eye.
The Eye can be engraved custom.
Now to the Astrolux SS... around the same throwish esque... in the neighborhood as the
Eye except it has a larger less well defined hotspot.
The Eye has the hard hot spot, and lighter ring around it... and a very light wash that
disperses fast around you... so you even though you have it pointed in a direction ... you
can still see the ground in front of you because of the very light dim spill close to your
person.
And now the Astrolux K01 which you will see in an upcoming review... the least throwy
of any of the lights... more of an EDC beam pattern for closer stuff.
Back to the Eye for another second.
Now to the final thoughts and wrapping it up.
Some people may balk at the idea of... i hate to say luxury, but that's sort of what it
is- flashlights.
Yet we live in a world where we have perfectly functional well built knives for $15 like
my Ganzo, when a $300 knife exists that is arguably just as well built but uses titanium
scales and a high end blade steel.
One knife you sharpen less but it's harder to sharpen and the other you sharpen more.
I'm not here to say what you spend your money on.
Now a flashlight on the other hand is a fairly complex machine compared to a knife.
So what is the Eye of Sekhmet.
So one can't see the value in a high end knife and balk at a flashlight.
What do you get for your money?
Well the $153 for my unit gets you an unique well engineered light- that doesn't look quite
like anything else.
It has custom programmable firmware with options not found even in some high mass produced
lights... it's made and hand built by a small company in the USA, with fancy materials,
and attention to detail... whether is's the fit and finish of the thick slab of copper
in the back mated with the cured wood... the optic not generally found in flashlights,
and the performance of a premium thrower.
A lot of care and thought went into making this device.
And in the case of the Night Piercer option... which I didn't have... a 260,000 candela option
in this form factor light is pretty freaking awesome.
Like a pin prick of light burning a hole through a distant tree.
No visible PWM was observed on any mode by my eyes or camera.
Remember I dont scientifically check for PWM I just let you know if my eyes or cameras
catch it.
Which is all Im interested in.
And in case you didnt catch it before this light side stands well, so it can be used
as a right angle light on a surface or you can ceiling bounce it by laying it on its
back.
In my opinion throwers make the best tail standing flashlights because their fine point
of light on the ceiling sort of acts like a source of light flooders dont work as well
for this in my opinion because more spill light comes out of the sides and shines in
your face.
So stop by Silent Thunder Ordnances facebook page and website... to learn more about all
the products they offer- including ultra hot rodded modified high candela lights, or brand
new lights like this.
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