ThruNiteCatapult Mini Pro LED Searchlight, 566 Meters Long Throw, High 2588 Lumens Rechargeable Flashlight with Battery Extension Tube for Search and Rescue, EDC

Good stuff:- Extremely bright and long-reaching for such a small light.- Impressively even color; I don't see any yellow/blue fringes or other nonuniformities at all, which is fairly rare.- Convenient to charge with USB-C, requiring no external battery charger.- Extension tube lets you trade a bit of compactness for roughly double runtime if you want.Bad stuff:- No pocket clip. I guess it's a bit on the bulky side for carrying in your pocket, but if it had a pocket clip, I would use it. The fact that it doesn't makes it awkward to carry on my person, so it mainly lives in my backpack.- Confusing one-button controls. While you can access turbo and firefly modes directly, you have to cycle through the low/medium/high settings to select one of them, meaning that you can end up being forced to jump straight from firefly to high before you can select low. I really wish we could escape from this madness and just have separate "brighter" and "dimmer" buttons, but alas.- Rapidly overheats when used at both of its top two settings, giving only 20 seconds in turbo mode and 60 seconds in high mode before stepping back to about 600 lumens. The turbo mode doesn't bother me; 20 seconds at 2500 lumens is pretty useful, and it would be silly to expect such a tiny light to handle so much power for much longer than that. However, I do kind of expect high mode on a flashlight to be a "maximum sustained power" setting, and it's really not that here. Strangely, this flashlight doesn't even seem to have such a setting, as medium mode is about half the brightess of high mode after it steps down.- Requires a top-notch battery. I tried putting an 18650 from my Nitecore headlamp in it with the extension tube, but I guess this has trouble delivering enough power to run the turbo mode. As a result, trying to use turbo mode seems to "crash" the flashlight, resulting in a brief bright flash of light followed by completely unresponsive controls until I take the battery out and put it back in. I get that it's sort of my fault for using a substandard battery, but I wish the light could handle this situation a bit more gracefully (i.e. by dimming down) instead of becoming temporarily unusable.

Catapult mini pro- For its size it is extremely bright and has a very long throw. THE BATTERY EXTENSION TUBE IS NOT USELESS as one reviewer mentioned. The larger battery that can be used in this is a rechargeable 18650 lithium that can easily be found online and I highly recommend getting it if you want the light to run longer and be slightly brighter. Personally I’d recommend getting an Orbtronic 18650 3500mah. I have always had good luck with this manufacturer. Back to the light, right now, as I write this, they are selling the catapult mini pro for only 40 bucks, which is an excellent bargain. The other mini catapults, which I also own, also throw very far, but they don’t have the flood that the mini pro has and/or don’t come with an extension tube for the 18650 battery and they are more expensive. I’m so happy with this light I’m probably going to buy another so I can have one in pristine condition and use the other for working.

Cool little lite. Very bright. Can’t leave on very long as it gets very hot.

Just bought my second one since I lost the first. Very bright and small even with the extension tube on. Bright strobe effect. Love the extension tube to be able to use an 18650. On this particular one though I had to reach in with a needle nose pliers and extend/stretch the spring in the base. (And yes, the light is fully screwed shut.) Seems like this particular spring was out of spec. This particular unit had extra play inside the battery tube causing the light to flicker and go on and off like there was a short. After the quick fix the light is perfect. No more loose battery.

I have accumulated a lot of flashlights over the years. All serve different purposes of course but this little flashlight is a great thrower in a tiny package. With the standard battery, I actually think it is too small. So I used a samsung 18650 battery and the extension tube and now it is the perfect size. I have thrower flashlights that cost 3x as much and honestly, they are only marginally better than this little guy. It has become my favorite thrower flashlight as it is so compact, I can carry it very easily. I've used it hunting, hiking and the wife has used it on her walks and it does a great job. The central hotspot is very long reaching and the spill area gives a nice mid range wider light. Even on medium, the thing will light up 100 yards. When you see how tiny it is, and how far it lights up... any flashlight fan should consider adding one to your collection. I have an o-light that cost me twice as much and is not as powerful. This light is well built and is working really well so far. I will update if things change but for now... I have it a two thumbs up.

Incredibly bright for the small size. Compares really well to the full-size Catapult Pro, but you can carry this one in your pocket! This little guy has quite a throw distance too!

One of the best flashlights I own. I would recommend it and would buy it again in a minute.

I bought the Catapult Mini to store in my desk drawer, for times when I need a bright light to search for something under the desk or outside. It worked great for about 2 years and then the included battery (branded "ThruNite 1100 MAH 18350") stopped holding a charge for more than a few minutes. The ThruNite website claims it will hold at least a 60% charge after 250 recharge cycles, but in 2 years I couldn't have recharged it more than 25 times -- once a month -- as I don't use it all that often. I tried to replace it with another ThruNite-branded battery, but their website reports 18350 batteries are sold out, and have been for weeks now. I will have to try my luck with an unbranded 18350 Li-Ion battery and hope it works better.