Flashlight Review: Borealis

Good products combined with really awesome customer service are not common these days. I'm not shy about rewarding excellence when I find it. ;) I think you'll find that many of Juan's customers feel exactly the same way.

The organizations in my sig line are different in many ways but are the same in that I feel they give you a lot of bang for the buck. If anyone wants to know more about them I'd be happy to provide more information...

BTW, my sigline is the same on most of the forums I post on including the ones that I don't do moderator work for. Furthermore it has remained unchanged since before I was a mod on TFL. I don't know exactly when I changed it to include Black Bear Flashlights, but it was sometime in 2006--long before I was approached about being a mod at TFL.

FINALLY, there can be no conflict of interest because I'm not paid or otherwise compensated to represent or advertise for anyone nor do I claim to be or attempt to be neutral on the products and services discussed, reviewed, bought or sold on TFL. Furthermore, there is no TFL policy requiring that mods avoid plugging products or services that they like or refrain from criticizing products or services that they find lacking.

If you don't like it, you're free to say so. But your implication that there's anything unethical going on is not only highly offensive, it's also completely baseless.
 
Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed that moderator JohnKSa has been pimping for Black Bear flashlights? Witness the sig line:

there are reoccurring 'reviews' of accolades which are seemingly written every
month and are variations-on-a-theme...and which sound like infomercials.
 
Hi guys,
I have a new camera that is able to take night pictures close to what we actually see with our eyes, close but not actually as much as we can see.

Still the pictures are great for comparison with others lights.

Here they are some comparison beam shots with others popular lights used by law enforcement.

The tool shed target is 30 yards away

MAGCHARGER 40,000 Candlepowers, 200 lumens

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Ultra Stinger, 75,000 candlepowers, 295 lumens

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BOREALIS, 1050 lumens, rechargeable 50 minutes run time.

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The 1050 lumens of the BOREALIS is similar to a two million candlepower spotlight or a big truck high beam headlights, please be careful and don't point the light to members of your family, use only for defense if you want to cook some bad guy eyeballs.:)

cheers
Black Bear
 
NEW BEAMSHOTS

Hi guys,
Again we are going to feature the BOREALIS 1050 lumens in competition with others powerful police lights.
I used a big section of the fence and a range of 35 yards
As a starter we have the Maglite 3 D (39 lumens)
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And a Magcharger 200 lumens (40,000 candlepower)

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And the Streamlight Ultra Stinger 295 lumens 75,000 candlepower

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The Surefire M-6 Guardian, 500 lumens

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And the BOREALIS 1050 lumens

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These are the contenders, from left to right, Maglite 3 D, Magcharger, Ultra Stinger, Surefire M-6 and the rechargeable BOREALIS 1050 lumens.

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CONTINUE IN NEXT POST
 
These are the battery sticks and carriers, from left the 5 volts battery stick of the Magcharger, the 6 volts Ni Cad battery Stick of the Ultra Stinger, the plastic battery carrier of the Surefire M-6 with the six 123’s batteries, and the Rolls Royce battery carrier of the Borealis, made out of aluminum and Delryn for the 9 batteries NIMH (12 volts system).

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Kind regards
Black Bear
 
Quick question... I am a new member here, by the way, happy to be in The Firing Line... how long (as in hours) does the life of a Borealis bulb last?
 
Welcome to the forum, hope you enjoy your stay.

The bulb life is 35 hours plus (just the same as Surefire lamps) the Borealis include a spare bulb in the tail cap and extra bulbs are inexpensive.

Best regards
Black Bear
 
Noob here and WOW!

These are incredible! I've been into flashlights for about, oh, 9 days now, and with 5 already sitting on my desk (LED's), I've got to get me one (or 2) of these!

Let my neighbor come out now with his 500,000 candlepower spotlight! We'll see who's the brightest bulb in the box!
 
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