What are your least used/biggest let down lights of 2016

A lot of people thinks it is great , but i don’t like the tint (and it has a lot of glue inside , a little hard to change LED) and the fact that it is a twisty . Just my point of view .

Crelant v4a. Too much parasitic loss and run time is a fraction of my ea41w. Changing batteries leads to a struggle to get it to work. I install freshly charged nimh and get a dim flashing. Clean all contacts, try different cells, unscrew the tailcap a bit… working. Switch it off and on… flashing again. It may be a decent light if I replace the driver but as it is it is my #1 disappointment for 2016.

I got one of those ultrafire C8’s also. What a POS. Tossed in the garbage can. Good thing I only paid 6 dollars for it

I like my Jetbeam Jet I MK, but then again, I like well made twistys, and knew it was a twisty when I bought it. The beam is on the cool side but not bad outdoors. I try not to judge by shining them on a wall inside the house. If you buy one, get a 14500 for it. It’s weak with a AA alkaline IMO.

Yunmai Y3 (convoy s2+ style)
My expectations may have been too high for a light that was only $8AU but nonetheless it’s far from the claimed 1000 lumen
Thin construction
Gets hot fast
Extremely visible PWM except on high
They just sit in wait in the spare lights drawer (yes I actually bought 2 to make things worse)

I got a CooYoo Particle L (same as MecArmy PT16). It had good build quality and a good feel, nice-ish LEDs, very bright, but the most awful UI I’ve come across. I ended up giving it to a family member.

Supposedly there are newer versions of the light with a slightly better UI but it’s impossible to tell what you are going to get so I just gave up on them.

My Cometa, not due to the quality issues even. I had fun modding one and tightening the zoom threads with JB weld, etc… Dropped new emitters into see how they looked… Then I realized, the zoomies are not my thing…

I bought two… Anyone wants two cometas for $50 shipped (US only) shoot me a PM. One is an XPL HI V3 2A and the other is a domed 219C 5000K 320 I believe… Trades are good too… I got to put a WTS thread up and clear the shelf…

I do not have any “let down” lights, but I have lights that are least used, because I bought them to add to my collection.
Non collection lights, for use: Two of my largest lights get used for my night walks, while my other large lights are less used.

ReManG, you have PM.

I’d but your mk1 but shipping from Greece to Canada probably won’t work (too costly).

Wellp, you may’ve found a buyer… :smiley:

I keep banging the same drum, but a twisty in your pocket or bag is nigh impossible to accidentally turn on.

I’ve done both to tail-clickies and side-clickies, more often than I’d like to admit.

Heretic! :smiley:

Crappy innards, but with a nice solid brass pill from Fasttech, they still make great hosts for XP-E2s and other lower-power LEDs. Even the crap tailswitch can easily handle 1.5A or so.

Not exactly a 9.5 on the Richter scale of lumens, but holds the hotspot together nice and far for excellent throw!

Never tried dedoming an XP-E2, but that would probably kick…

Okay… biggest letdown? Gotta confess, my S2+.

Love the host, love the tint, really like the semi-floody beam for closer-in work, even like the spread of L/M/H, but that damned blink-on-low still drives me absolutely buggy. It’s a poke in the eye every time I use it…

And I’ve just been too lazy to take it apart and try reflashing it.

L2? Beautiful thrower, but no idea what’s up with the sandpaper-finish anodisation. It’s really rough and chalky. It’s a bit unnerving.

My (Convoy) C8 is a gray matte-finish, yet still pretty smooth to the touch.

Other (clone) C8s are smooth and glossy… and black.

Love the Jet II (regular, not pro), but I really wish it’d fit 18350s as well as 16340s…

Aside from the S2+’s UI, they’re pretty minor gripes, so thankfully I haven’t gotten bitten too badly this year.

For me it was SingFire SF-348 - strange beam, pretty dim, feels chep. Tint is not great also.

PS. I love my Skilhunt H15 - agree that it’s a bit heavy and has annoying red blink, but…but besides that it’s really versatile and powerful (for AA) light. It has great balance between power/runtime.

Less used light is
Actually, it’s manker e14
Because the dome of leds flew out all the time
So it shows strange annoying blue tint

My biggest let down is Klarus G30.

It suddenly stopped operation while in turbo mode. The
flashlight was warm, but not hot. The battery voltage was about 3.9V per
each of the three protected cells. The flashlight did not reacted to
pressing of either of the switches. Upon releasing and tightening again
of the tail cap the light starts operation in some random mode, and it
does not react to the switches; the only way to shut it down is by
release of the tail cap. The mode it enters after tightening of the tail
cap is completely unpredictable.

I notified the Klarus customer service yesterday and awaiting their response (assuming that they will respond).

I think shipping will be double the price of the light :stuck_out_tongue:

My 2nd DQG Tiny 18650 IV - which died after 3 months - due to one drop from normal hand height to a wood [or concrete] floor - can’t remember the exact drop.
Became intermittent, then finally cannot be revived.
Took it apart, can not fix or find problem.

(The first one died when the switch failed 2 ways at once.)

Gearbest did give me half my money back, but still, I’m stuck now with the idea that 18650 lights just can’t be that small and cheap, and be reliable.

Now I’ve got a Manker U11, which is nice but way bigger than the Tiny, and an Astrolux S1, which is very nice, and the same tininess as the Tiny, but at the expense of smaller, uncommon battery (18350).

I’d rather just have 18650, 85mm long, plus durability/reliability for $30.

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Jetbeam Jet I MK, I only used it once. not pocket friendly light for being unintentionally power on when get stuck in your pants and when you need it battery drained out even the clip have a light grasp.

I don’t really have a letdown light of this year (unlike 2015 :confounded: ), thankfully, but I do have a minorly disappointing one that I’d nonetheless been using this year (on a ball cap brim when some lights at my workplace went poof), and that is the Olight S1. The runtimes are a joke on 16340; seriously, 63 hours on Moonlight is year-200X levels of inefficiency, and it only gets worse from there :person_facepalming:

Heh, I remember when the flashy on Low mode on my C8 used to drive me up a wall. I just got used to it, though – I don’t have any knowledge of torch modding, and have to practice a lot with a soldering iron before I trust myself to touch a flashlight with one. Also, parts are costly for me.

ADDENDUM: You can get it from Simon with ToyKeeper’s new non-blinky firmware for a very small price increase. Sounds like a killer to me!