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what size is the driver Tom E? mine seems working okay but will find replacement driver incase it fails; white NW.

So banggood told me to make sure the batteries are charged and to tighten the head on the light. (Shakes head) boy I can’t wait to see what they say next.

Standard operating procedure for customer service phase one.

Phase 2 is offer you $5 credit to make you go away.

You just have to go through all the phases, push them into doing the proper fix.

I’m interested…NW…please put me on list…thanks

Yeah I understand. Thank you for explaining. I may do a driver swap on this but would still like the light to work correctly. The UI isn’t bad. May not mod it. In that case I would love for it to work right lol.

Interested one NW.

Banggood offered to send another driver. May as well go for it.

Standard SRK size. I already modded my first MT03 II and am getting like 25K lumens (was 27K initially) out of XHP70.2 P2's. It's a bit tricky with all this power - modded the firmware to use the FET instead of the 7135 to do blinks, since the 7135 had problems with the high amps/voltage.

Waiting for HQ to release his next rev of the SRK v3.5 driver: https://budgetlightforum.com/t/-/40540

Could I get a code please

Sure. [quote=Guns712] Could I get a code please [/quote]

sent you a PM, just wanted to make sure you got it.

I just recieved my white MT03 NW.

Love the feel and looks of it!

But sadly i also have one emitter doing the strobe when the light is on max.

I wonder with all the single emitter flickering issues if it’s just a bad batch of drivers, or maybe Haikelite changed the design.

I’m in CW please!

Too bad I was considering this light. Haikelite should respond to this issue with root cause analysis. I bet they know now.

Me too. The silver MT03 is gorgeous. Luckily the driver is easy to replace; that’s why I’m still interested in Haikelite. But now seems to be a bad time to get this light unfortunately.

My silver NW showed up today, charging up a fresh set of 30q’s to do a proper test. No flickering so far on two different sets of protected batteries as well as a half charged set of 30q’s. It did start to flicker on high on the one set of protected batteries after a mode change but after cycling through the modes to low it went away. There was a bit of audible driver whining too. I’m blaming that on the five amp protection circuit those batteries have. I tested it on my power supply just holding the test leads in place with my fingers, no issues running from 7.3 to 8.5 volts, it would flicker a bit if the ground wire wasn’t pressed hard enough. Amperage does increase with voltage, you can see the beam brighten a bit even on low. It draws around 8 amps/60 watts on turbo.

The level spacings are fine and the tint is nice, matches the NW MF01 when wall hunting. Smooth floody beam, wider hotspot than the MF01 and a good amount of spill. The only thing I have to gripe about is the tailcap did not thread on smoothly. No grease on the threads or behind the contact board. Also the solder joints on the guide pins were a little to big for the groove in the tailcap. Five minutes to disassemble, do a little filing, apply grease and reassemble. Works perfectly now.

Great light so far.

Will get them to respond on this issue soon.

Hope Haikelite takes this unfortunate issue as chance to show their strength in customer support. It could be battery quality/length or contact problem that might not be completely their fault. Those who buy this high wattage light should know it can have issue if certain things are not in good condition.

Who else has flickering issue apart from these owners?

  1. chakrawal
  2. BeardedRaleigh
  3. Tjhosan
  4. WTF

All existing stocks at BG are scheduled to return factory for inspection and repair (if required).