Ah, those are V1 ones, before the thermal management was finetuned.
A geographical question: there is no piece of Brazil east of Greenland, right?
Ah, those are V1 ones, before the thermal management was finetuned.
A geographical question: there is no piece of Brazil east of Greenland, right?
I am located 35 degrees West,
which is East of almost all the Greenland population, and most of the land mass.
This part of Brazil was forgotten cattle grazing scrubland and fishing villages until the US Army needed a jump off point to fight Rommel during WWII.
Thanks for the geography/history lesson
Mine finally came. It definitely took a postal journey, but it was worth it. UI on this thing is wicked, thanks Tom and TK
I got 219C in green of course. Beam shape is only noticeable on smooth surfaces. Definitely gonna get a cloudy optic though. Might try dc fix before that just for kicks, I know it doesnāt do much to TIRs compared to reflectors. This thing is small! My E2L seems big now. Tint is also great, makes my other lights look yellow in comparison.
Iāve got both a 219c and 6500k on order, Iām going to compare them to my E14 II which I believe has similar turn on power. Itās recording nearly twice as much lumens as my DQG Tiny 3th!
Excellent!!! :partying_face:
I tried to EDC the D4 in my pocket (with keys) for a few days, and am afraid it is not going to stay there. Without lock-out it fires in the pocket about twice a day (some were to moon, some a lot higher), with lockout (manual or via UI) it takes fiddling before I can use it. I use my light multiple times a day so it is sort of important to me to switch it on in a second.
So for EDC Iām back to my E2L shorty, which was tough competition for the D4 anyway (219BV1SW40R9080,BLFA6driver,slowdiscotail) which works great, it is a bit smaller, and a tail clicky is not just switching on by accident.
The D4 is going camping with me next week, for that it is a great allround light
But perhaps for a future firmware of the D4 a thought or two can be dedicated to how to implement a quicker lockout sequence.
I have the E14 with 219C (stock version) and itās nowhere near as bright as the D4 (with 219C).
I experienced āhot pantsā even with my short S2+Triple EDCs several times. Afterwards I changed my driver firmwares to only cycle through safe modes (in terms of heat) - unless the user double-clicks the switch. The D4 needs something like this.
And it also needs a lanyard hole and space for protected batteries.
Hi. I just ordered a couple of the D4ās. Received one of them already but itās so small that Iām afraid that itāll fall out of my pocket. Where can I buy pocket clips for them?
About thatā¦ and all other UI suggestionsā¦ I have a large part of the code foundation written and working already. I doubt itāll be long before I have a āRampingIOS v3ā firmware available which 1) implements all the changes which I think sound good, and 2) is dramatically easier to modify. Itās a complete from-scratch rewrite totally unlike anything else in the repository.
Just received my second D4, a green in xp-g2 3d. I really like this tint. Itās ever so slightly warmer than the nichia - a nice pale white, still very neutral though.
My only complaint is that the groove for the pocket clip came with a big scratch and the lens had lots of dust underneath. It feels like this was used, maybe a returned unit, or poor qc. Beside the cosmetics the light functions fine. I can disassemble the head and clean the lens and the groove wouldāve been scratched eventually, so Iām probably not going to bother with a refund or anything.
The Convoy deep carry clips work, but beware that it might scratch the anodizing, at least it did on mine.
Any other clip that has a 3mm(max) tall collar with a 18-20mm diameter should work.
Thanks. I donāt want to scratch it so soon lol. Did you measure the dimensions with a caliper? I have one at work but Iāll have to wait until Monday.
Iād love a clip or two too, but I havenāt been very happy with any that I found yet. I may see about ordering some of those ā205ā style clips though, which seemed reasonably decent aside from not being deep enough.
I havenāt found anything at all which would work on the 18350 tubes, which is unfortunate since thatās the size I would most want to clip to things.
Until I can find a clip, Iām just using a zip tie and a wrist strap lol.
excellent idea with the zip tie!
I couldnāt get this one to work:
Sig P225? A-Zoom?
Itās been in my backpack for several days. Got scratches in 3 places and a tiny dent in the tail cap. Maybe itās just me, but I donāt think it will stay in a perfect condition for long in any pocket. And so I wouldnāt bother much about scratching it with a tail clip.
OTOH DQG Tiny 4th came with a clip and I scratched the light while removing it before the 1st use. That wasnāt nice. Especially that itās still the only damage.
djozz, twist-lockout works well for me. Though the delay until it stops blinking is sometimes annoying.
TK, youāre great.
I think this deserves repeating
Man some shoebox tests show my FET driven E2L with triple XP-G2s isnāt quite as bright as I hoped, and that as the battery drains my quad 219Cs in the D4 rapidly become twice as bright.
I carried the D4 around tonight and this thing EATS batteries. Going near turbo is just silly, but I LOVE it. I was showing some friends how it works and they started joking, āand press the button this many times for the bat signalā to which I responded by showing them the bat check logo on the UI graphic. āSo what do you have to do for it to play music to you?ā Told them I hadnāt figured it out that far, but it might be possible.
Lastly, I just use the physical lockout for now. Itās fairly easy, but I did find myself fiddling a bit to twist the end cap on with one hand. I donāt like pocket clips at all so thatās moot for me, however, I will try that zip tie