It looks like the E3 is not as lean as the Tool AA but still ok, and it is pretty short.
With the Tool AA, and with my 4sevens mini AA I have the feeling that if I drop it they could deform and the threading gets stuck, the E3 can be overrun by a truck.
This is what impresses me about Jaxman products. The quality is fantastic. They reveal the internals as well. This is something most manufacturers do not reveal.
I got my new version E3. I like it a lot and it would be a candidate for my favorite AA/14500 flashlight, except when I use a 14500 cell all the modes are very close in brightness to max (not single mode, all 3 modes are different, albeit barely). I wonder if this is the intended behavior or my unit came defective
I really like my E3 alot. It has a very nice tint, which is rosier than most 219C I’ve seen. The start on moonlight mode and 3 brightness mode makes this a very user friend AA flashlight. If I were to choose the best AA flashlight to give muggles, I would choose either the E3 or the Reylights. Both perform about the same in terms of brightness but the Reylight looks alot nicer for 4x the price.
I also ordered Jaxman E3 4000K, but the tint isn’t that great (sort of yellowish), definitely not rosy (unlike one of my BLF A01 which has a really rosy tint)…
Will post a pic to compare them…
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With regards to brightness level when using 14500. While I could measure a difference in tailcap current from Low-to-High (it’s similar to the one mentioned above), the brightness (using our eyes) from Low-to-Medium is very little difference. While Low and High (although there’s a bigger difference in tailcap current drain, the actual brightness difference seen by my eyes is also not that big a difference. The flashlight does get hotter much more quickly when using 14500 in High mode though).
Unlike when using AA, there is a nice spacing of brightness levels from Low to Medium to High (I think the AliExpress website indicates it’s supposed to be 1-60-350 lumens? Anyone can confirm if those are the real values?) I wonder what is the actual lumens rating when using 14500 — maybe someone who knows how to measure lumens can answer it (I have a basic lux meter now but don’t know how to compute/convert that to approximate lumens…)