TK's Emisar D4 review

Until I can find a clip, I’m just using a zip tie and a wrist strap lol.

excellent idea with the zip tie!

I couldn’t get this one to work:

:smiley:

Sig P225? A-Zoom?

It’s been in my backpack for several days. Got scratches in 3 places and a tiny dent in the tail cap. Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t think it will stay in a perfect condition for long in any pocket. And so I wouldn’t 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 wasn’t nice. Especially that it’s still the only damage.

djozz, twist-lockout works well for me. Though the delay until it stops blinking is sometimes annoying.

TK, you’re great.

I think this deserves repeating

Man some shoebox tests show my FET driven E2L with triple XP-G2s isn’t 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, “and press the button this many times for the bat signal” to which I responded by showing them the bat check logo on the UI graphic. “So what do you have to do for it to play music to you?” Told them I hadn’t figured it out that far, but it might be possible.

Lastly, I just use the physical lockout for now. It’s fairly easy, but I did find myself fiddling a bit to twist the end cap on with one hand. I don’t like pocket clips at all so that’s moot for me, however, I will try that zip tie :wink:

will this driver alone be available ??

I believe there is mention of this a few pages back, MTN will have them available?

They joke, but … it has been done:

I see that 5 clicks hasn’t been assigned to a mode yet, this should be it.

No, MTN offers different (but similar) drivers with the same UI.

As to UI…People, I warn you, don’t buy D4.
It’s dangerous. Ever since I bought it, whenever I think “Wow, what a nice flashlight, maybe I should get one”, a thought follows: “UI will suck”.
Then I start wondering about getting one modded.
If it’s clicky, I recognise it’s a terminal disease. But then start thinking about crescendo…and since I don’t trust this works as well, I decide not to get the light.

:smiley: I had to re-read your post to find out what you intended to say, LOL

Haha, me too! Twice! :smiley:

I still don't get it... It sounds like a rant.... But.....

It’s a money saver; the D4 kills our hobby of buying lights. It’s a reference light to which other EDC lights are compared to. Same with M43.

Yes, I believe what he’s trying to say is that the D4’s UI is so good that you’ll never need to buy another light.

The entire light is excellent. Apart from UI, one of the things I enjoy every time is picking up the light and without looking at it finding the button via the raised section left and right of the button. Once the button is found quickly, pressing it gives such a nice tactile feel and feedback. So before you’re dealing with UI, the experience is already really nice.

I couldn’t agree more! The whole light oozes quality! It’s probably the best light to own, regardless of price. The only thing that I would change is the tint options, but that’s easy enough to do yourself.

Mtn is not selling the bare driver. However, Mtn HAS added the D4 firmware as an option to their line of FET+1 drivers in various sizes. The drivers with the D4 firmware are available now.

The driver is substantially identical in design to the mtn-ddm series with an attiny85. The packaging is slightly different, but that shouldn’t matter in most cases.