Some notices to DQG Tiny 26650 V3.0 (post by designer and producer: GEORGE)

Hi George, how nice of you to start a thread here on BLF.

I have always liked your flashlights and have bought most of them. They are always as small as possible and it is interesting to see your solutions to make it small, and to see the evolution towards better designs.

But what I most admire are your drivers, always custom made without PWM, and this 26650 III driver is another very special one! Making good flashlight drivers appears a very rare skill, many flashlight manufacturers are not able to make them well, and yours are always very good.

I hope for many more nice DQG designs, it’s good that there are folks every now and then ‘without business ideas and plans’, it certainly resulted in a series of special products :slight_smile:

I can wait to see this beauties. Any information about when (the month) it will be released?

Offtopic, about tiny 18650:

  1. why you used rubber button instead metal as it was in previous rev?
  2. what about to put a magnet to tailcap in next revision. It would be a great improvement for edc flashlight

Welcome George and thank you for discussing your thoughts/ideas, DQG 26650 lights are outstanding!

Best of luck going forward.

Hello George, Great work, I love your 26650 lights.

I am sorry, I am not so understand your mean.

WOW, nearly 5 reported plus yours without gluing! usually I am very proud to my memory, almost not use notebook to help remembering. maybe I should Introspection myself now.
when do you purchase your lights? from banggood? they are first run out of China.

thank you, dear friend. about drivers, yes, they all custom made, it does not so easy to design as small as could still with good performance, usually need special components, they are expansive and rare, sometimes need to cost many time to locate the real producer. and sometimes I need to bag them to supply lower quantity of order to me, I think you know what I mean, ha.

no excect time, but I think will soon.

good question.

  1. first, tiny 18650 3th ’s water resistance is not so steady due to the assemble process much complex at the button, then, solid button usually will lead unexpected opertion if you put at pocket or at other same condition. so, I change to Silica gel button, rubber is not good for button.
  2. about magnet, I does want to. but what do you suggestion to place, inside tail cap or outside, if outside, 0.8-1mm in height, can accept, but it will so easy to wear the magnet suface, very urgly after weared; if inside the cap, should 2-3 time height compare to former one to archive same force, and the construction of electric contact should change to another method, so, I cannot decide how to do. :slight_smile:

about magnet, an easy way: use no protective 18650, find a magnet height around 4mm, diameter 18, just put onto the negtive of the battery (cut the plastic skin off at the negtive of battery), I think it maybe can work, and same to tiny 26650 3th.

have tested: 0.9*12 magnet, 3 pieces can vertial, but cannot horizontal. 4 pieces can both direction. so I think if more diameter, 2-3mm can work fine.

My first one was ordered on December 8th, and second one January 5th. Both from Banggood. I am glad they have no glue :slight_smile:

My review unit didn’t have any glue, but I’m glad it came like this. The driver retaining plate falling off is not a big deal, just align it again and keep pressure on it while screwing back the battery tube.

After many uses I’m still very impressed by the Tiny 3, great job George!

By the way you said replacement drivers available, do you know where can we buy it?

Welcome to BLF George. :smiley:

I’m a big fan of DQG lights, and they’ve just gotten better with each successive version. The current crop of DQG lights are outstanding.

  • Some of the early models had issues. My original DQG18650 had issues with mode switching (twist on-off), and with battery fitting (the battery tube tapered. All but the thinnest cells would get stuck).
  • I really like the DQG 18650 rev 4. Looks and feels great in the hand, the switch works great, only the UI was lacking.
  • The new DQG 26650 rev 3 is the best yet. Amazing output and feel in the hand. Great size and runtimes. The UI is much improved from that of the DQG 18650 rev4! Your latest UI fixes just about all the concerns I had with the prior UI. I can also confirm that on my rev 3 26650, the head and battery tube are indeed glued together.

Suggestion for improving the UI:

  • Shortcut to Turbo from off: Current UI is hold the power button down for 2 seconds. That’s a bit long. Reduce that to 1 second.

Suggestions for future flashlights:

  • How about a sideswitch aluminum 1xAA/14500 light similar to the DQG 18650?
  • How about a version of the DQG 18650 with a zoomable aspheric lens instead of a TIR?

I am seeing the reports of lights that have not been glued as you believe they should be. I hope that someone isn’t producing lights without your knowledge? I hate to even suggest this but it is a very common and unfortunate betrayal in this business:(

about shortcut to turbo from off, yes, its a bit long, got this suggestion, thank you.
about future flashlghts, maybe will do, but now, not on plan.

Hi, I am not so understand what you mean at last sentance.
indeed, from now, 6-7 reported without any glue, it make me nevous, I should find the reasonable answer. I belive I glued every one, because all of them are assembled myself, it cannot be explained by accidental forgoten gluing. usually, I drop a little glue at the battery tube screw near O-ring, I think this place will let the glue concentrated without affected by screw action, maybe it is wrong place, best way I should check one by one not by sampling.

you can ask the place where you buy this light, then turn to me, quantity is limited, only for confirmed fixing use.

George, I’m sorry, I should have been more clear. What I want to say is: People will steal your design if they believe there is money to be made. It happens very often in china. Factories will make extra parts products and even complete lights in the off hours and sell without the designer knowing about it. Sometimes even complete factories are copied.

If you suspect this could have happened, please let us know. I can’t speak for everyone but I know there are a lot of us here that would help if we could.

All this to say, I think this is an unlikely explanation in your case. Maybe the glue
On some lights was very little and went unnoticed by the purchaser?