Olight S Mini

Sorry, it’s quite impractical to do those kinds of runtime tests when you have more than one light to test. All the more reason for Olight to state them though.

edit: of course you could run it on low or medium for an hour and extrapolate from that by checking how much capacity was drained from the batteries

It’s all good, it’s not like I’m “demanding” it or anything :innocent: Still appreciate the input up there.

Maukka, Looking forward to your testing of the emitter…

Holy God, that’s a nice looking light!

Is that a real one, or did you photo$hop the coloring onto it?

Beats my boring red/blue/green ones… :stuck_out_tongue:

… not really?

But it smelled like Palmolive for about a day after I treated it to darken the recessed areas. A natural patina doesn’t turn green like that in a day or two; I artificially sped up the process.

Thanks! That’s definitely not the same coloring as the stock photos; looks like each one is probably different.

I only use protected 16340 cells in mine, because these lights have a boost circuit and no LVP. The protection circuit keeps me from draining cells far enough to damage them. In my testing, the ‘low’ mode puts out the same lumens on a totally full cell and on an empty cell, so I can’t rely on dimming to tell me when to charge the battery.

Not that this helps, but when using my S1 Ti as my primary light I get a few weeks per charge. I assume the S Mini will be about the same. The S1’s specs included 16340 runtimes:

Then compare to the S Mini’s runtime, which has higher CR123A numbers…

So I’d guess probably ~30-ish hours on low and ~20 days on moon?

That was a stock Convoy photo plus about 5 minutes in GIMP.

Actually, TK, the numbers in RCR123 for the S1 are WAY off. I’ve seen several people test it independently and runtime on Moonlight never was longer than 63 hours. Hence the distrust.

Thanks for the info, so Palmolive is the trick then.

Interesting, and good to know. Are you planning to do any tests on it?

Part of it, anyway. It got the grooves to darken. Then I polished the raised areas with a sunshine cloth and aged things more naturally by simply holding the light overnight while I slept. The raised portions are constantly changing and will require occasional re-polishing. It’s a living surface.

Left to age it will develop an even dark patina. Handling it in use with give a rosy shine that is sort of matte finish, so the high spots your hand touches when using the light will show this buffed surface while the lower points will remain dark. Like the Lady says, it’s a living surface so it’s undergoing a constant change.

I am SO fighting the urge to open my wifes birthday present to see the gold PVD coating! Aaaaaagggghhhhh!

What bugs me is when people do an inverted “easy” patina where the ridges are dark and the valleys are bright, so that it looks like it’s merely dirty rather than aged. For example:

I think it looks better the other way around:

Thanks for all the info. Your right, it looks much better the way you have it, that’s how it should look naturally over time I guess, then becoming slightly shiny on the raised parts that make contact.

You know, I might very well do it. Just gotta get the necessary tools (a constantly dark place, a good digital clock, and a burly SD card for my camera).

Just bought mine…

Brought my wife along and ask which colors she likes the most, she chooses the Angry Wife… yup, one of that Angry Wife Ti SMini belongs to her, to turn her into Happy Wife…

Still no word on mine shipping from illumn.

bought in hkequipment, arrived before yesterday:

compare to older S1 Ti…

Anybody opened one of these up yet? Is the bezel press-fit and needs to be leveraged out? Or does it screw in? I’m going to need to do an emitter swap on mine when it arrives and just want an idea of what I’m getting into.

I’ve planned to open mine when my new emitters will be here… still waiting
I highly expect it to be like the S1, press fitted.
Follow the tutorial in my signature :slight_smile:

Those “angry wife” versions are stunning!

Just got the email my bead blasted has shipped :smiley: