Really don’t understand the desire for charging a Li-ion cell inside the light, worst possible way to do it, can’t monitor temperature and you’re trusting a very very cheap charging system to get it right. I’d much rather use the inexpensive XTar Rocket charger at 2A so it doesn’t take so long on the big cells. There are places that convenience is an inconvenience, using a cheap built in charger could be one of those places. Seems dangerous to me.
If you’re not charging at 2A then overheating and explosion isn’t such a big risk
When I’m at home and I can, I charge my lights with the cells in a good quality charger. But the convenience of being able to charge from a USB socket is huge as I use my lights for camping/sailing/cycling and other outdoor activities where I don’t have access to a AC source of power.
Yeah, I already have a couple of BLF A6’s with USB chargeable UltraFire 18650’s in them, so the BD06 doesn’t really give me anything additional over those - I was really hoping for much brighter light using a 26550 to keep the runtime higher.
Since my original comment, I also noticed the Acebeam EC60 which seems to tick more of my boxes. Much throwier light too, which is kind of what I was missing with the G20. “only” 2000 lumens, but the throw looks much better.
I guess I’ll probably end up with one of each, such is the way with these cheapish lights, you end up collecting them all
Don’t know for sure. This seems to be an older batch (Version 2015) and at least the 2014 version was too long for this light. 2016 should fit but don’t know for 2015. And they don’t say anything about the trip current (when protection kicks in), this should be 10 A which is sufficient.
Edit:
found some older posts which said the 2015 version is already the shorter one.
I understand…it’s simply that a couple of months ago I spend a lot of time seeking a 7-led TIR optic that would have a diameter of 32 mm or less. I failed to find any. I guess the actual optic is like 34-36 mm. I may be able to find it….