Do you see signs of the clear coat in any way, on the copper head?
This is most certainly on my ‘soon to-get’ list. I LOVE that it has two pocket clip grooves also.
I am thinking about tearing mine apart, and removing the (reported) clear coat. So I can get a tad better cooling, but more importantly. That all so wonderful patina, later on down the road. :sunglasses:
I was excited with the driver , now that it is a fet+1 and charging is in a different circuit someone can have a ramping firmware without a stepdown for the cost of 1-2 resistors (for the lvp)
Yes it has a very thin layer of clear coat or something similar .
I polished my S41 and created a patina , the one in one of the pics , it has a cool uneven patina … (i will try to get a better pic )
Thanks for the review (in progress). I see the great performance of this light but can not get over the looks, it is plain ugly to me :innocent: .
I see that the head does not have the rim that the opic can sit on (the fix that Astrolux had for the S41S) and that prevents twisting the optic when closing the bezel. So a modder’s question: are the dimensions in this light such that the optic is the correct height above the leds without damaging the domes, and that the bezel can be closed without chance of shearing off the led domes?
That stepdown is ridiculous. It’s reasonable enough for a FET quad to have a significant stepdown, but to less than 10%? Good thing it isn’t too hard to get to the MCU and flash a different firmware.
I think you should have a look again. In the description is says goes to high mode after 40 secs of turbo. They even replied saying in the final version that’s how it’s gonna be.
A batch of these Manker E14 II’s have made their way the the U.S. this week, Wednesday. But with the Blade Show going on in Atlanta, Friday through Sunday. No one has had time to unpack them yet. :weary:
Long time flashoholic here and first post on BLF.
I ordered a Astrolux S41 and 2 days later I saw the Manker E14ii was coming out so I ordered one from Manker before they even had it on their site. The light arrived today in a production box(smashed) not a plain brown box. I got the Nichia version and my step down happens at 1 minute and it steps down to high mode not the 100 lumens. I was worried about the 40sec step down to 100 lumens and had ordered the light before they listed the specs. I also wasn’t sure if the Nichia version would be 4000k HCRI or the 5000k 80 CRI. I received the 4000k. Just thought I’d share for anyone interested in the light as I was worried what tint and the step down.
That’s what I put on my mother’s SRK. I would rather have used Narsil, but I only had a tiny13 available so I went with the closest thing I had.
BTW, Ferrero Rocher still needs a bug fixed… the ramp direction doesn’t always go up when long-pressed from off. And it also otherwise doesn’t reset the direction when off. IIRC, I tried to fix it 3 years ago but it made the ROM exceed 1024 bytes with indicators enabled, so I didn’t keep the fix. So… that’s a thing which could really stand to be changed as soon as I have my office reassembled.
Oh, um, and Ferrero Rocher never did get FET+1 support. It’s so old that those didn’t exist yet. That’s probably a lot more relevant than a minor ramping quirk, and modernizing the code will involve some slightly deeper changes.