Stick a few of them in your shopping cart and wait for the price to lower. 6 months ago I picked up this one for $9.95 and this one for $6.95. The Weily is $9.99 right now. The one Will linked to has the promotion right below the price. Says “buy 1 get 30% off”, which equals $9.79. The promotion is applied at checkout.
Always look below the price for applicable promotions or a bit further down for special offers, often they have discounts on the product itself or when bought together with something else. I have found quite a few deals paying attention to this…
After reading this today, I went to ebay and found the one for $11.53 and ordered it. New seller(been there one week with 90% rating) but its ebay with their backing plus pay pal, so not too worried. Prices at $15, 16 and 20 and more. All seem the same manufacture? We will see
Fasttech have this in 3 colours: Blue , Black , Red
for $13.39. A little steep but with –15% coupon they offer around many holidays it might be worth it.
Where is the charge indicator on this lamp? Can’t seem to find it in any of the pictures.
Button on this one doesn’t seem transparent like on CL25R but the led could still probably shine through or be placed inside the lamp like in Blitzwolf BW-LT5. Is it red while charging or only lights up green when fully charged?
To plug in the USB plug you need to compress the cover quite a lot
In middle and low mode you can hear PWM hiss
The color on Fasttech says 5500K I can confirm this its not cold as Cree 1A or 2B, but not as warm as 3D
Fasttech rates too high lumens
300-350 lumens at 780mA can be expected
I bought a second tested the batteries 1100 and 1500mAh not being able to run high currents as their internal resistance is really high like old laptop pulls
Just bought one myself, Nice, I would have liked the Fenix but far too expensive.
When being charged the clone draws 500ma and as it gets close to full, the current starts to slowly drop the lowest i have see is 30ma before the green fully charged light shows.
Power button orange/red while charging turns to green when fully charged.
Just ordered another 3 of these lanterns making it 4, replaced the included 18650 with a protected Panasonic 3400mah cell.
Great size and very bright though i only use it low mode inside, I wonder how durable it is to being dropped as it`s made from plastic, maybe it can be armored somehow.
As with a lot of flashlights, you can disable CL06 by unscrewing the battery cap slightly, this eliminates any parasitic drain and any chance accidental activation.
My Baby`s
Notice on the lantern at the far right, the led`s look yellow, they actually look red to the naked eye.
Modes below, from left to right, HIGH, MEDIUM, LOW, RED, red flashing not shown.
EDIT: I am capacity testing the 4 18650 2000mah cells to see what the real capacity is, 1 cell is 10g lighter than the other 3.
Cell manufacturers nowadays determine their capacity figures by discharging the cell to 2.5V, but many flashlights and lanterns need 2.8V or even 3V to produce worthwhile amounts of light. This means that not all of the rated capacity is usable.
That’s part of the reason that our most advanced reviewers create and publish runtime charts showing output over time. These are the very best way to find out what a light will do in real life.
If you can’t find a runtime chart for the light you’re interested in, sometimes you can find a discharge graph for the cell you use or a similar cell. A discharge graph for the expected current can at least tell you how long you’ll get before the light shuts down.
At rock bottom, if you can’t find any applicable charts, you can derate the cell by (for example) 20%. On that basis, a cell rated at 3000mAh might only produce 2400mAh before the voltage drops too far to run the light. If you know your light needs 250mA to run, you can divide that in and say that your light will probably run for about 9 or 10 hours.
A word to the wise: if your use of a light is safety critical, always test the runtime under safe conditions before you rely on it. In other words, put a fully charged cell in and run the light until it shuts down. That way, you know exactly what it can do.