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manner. It is possible to grip the TK20R so that you reach the switch by your thumb, and manage the mode selector by a small finger of the same hand, but for a person with my palm size the grip is far from convenient. Analogically, if we grip the flashlight in such a manner that it is handed reliably and we comfortably activate and deactivate it, managing its lighting output would rather require using the second hand. Well it is probably about time to write something about this how the TK20R works. I have no possibility to lab-test measure an actual output, but during the field tests it seemed to me that is corresponds with output of the other 1000-lumen flashlight – the Olight R40 Seeker. The both flashlights feature also similar light spill: you can see a fair-sized focused center ring with even brightness and explicit borders, surrounding it a rather narrow, blurred halo and wide, main ring darkening towards edges. The TK20R features Cree XP-L HI V3 LED with a lifespan of 50,000 hours. Fenix TK20R features four output levels, switched by single press of button: 10, 150, 300 and 1000 lumens. The light beam remains well focused even at the very great distances therefore the TK20R works perfectly as a searchlight. You can control the suspected activities on the shore from a sailing boat anchored on another side of the lake (it was lake with a width of 200- 300m, and this "suspected activity" turned out to be a small herd of the Przewalski's horses) without any issue. If you hold the button for two seconds, a strobe mode will be activated, in which the flashlight emits a series of the flashes: short-long-short of maximum brightness. In order to activate this discotheque, it is enough even to press the mode selector even for a short time. The controller applied in the TK20R memorizes the last mode and after its subsequent activation it turns it on with the same output. accessories