What you got today

I've been pondering (for many months) those 5K lumens custom Maglites that Matt builds at Adventure Sports Flashlights. Finally ordered a purple one. Uses 2X 26650.

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Dangerous in the wrong hands. The turbo timer can be programmed to safe limits with the installed DrJonesGuppy2drv firmware. However, before adjusting the turbo timer (which is OFF out-of-the-box), I wanted to see how hot it would get after 15min. Ouch.

Yikes! That’s dangerously hot indeed.

I like the way you two think. I have a 10 year old boy as well. We would have been outside all night going through batteries like we just won the lottery. I have been on a light buying frenzy the last few months. Time for me to slow down a bit and let the credit card cool off. Although everytime I say that another one pops up that I just HAVE to have.

Nice light. Hope you and the boy enjoy the heck out of it. Nice clean father/son time right there.

My Enogear SS AA light got here today. Cool little AA light. Plenty bright for what I will use it for. Nice 4500k tint. Tail clicky has a great quality feel to it. Has PWM in low and medium that I can’t notice but if I put my ear up to it and try real hard I can kind of hear it. If I wouldn’t have read about it somewhere I never would have noticed.

^ nice little light up there :slight_smile:

I got some pure decadence today, a 20.5mmx2mm sapphire lens.


I got it from this aliexpress seller for 9 dollar shipped and I assume it is legid sapphire: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/High-Quality-2-0mm-Thick-Sapphire-Watch-Glass-20mm-29-5mm-Watch-Tool-Replacement-Sapphire-Watch/32860040298.html?spm=a2g0s.9042311.0.0.wYqoEw

Weird enough I got a message that the item was not shipped, that the tranaction was closed and indeed I received my money back. I will send them a message that I still received it.

I bought it because of a recent discussion via PM about the advantages of HDS flashlights, and the only advantage I could see over a S2+ was the sapphire lens.
Now that is solved for my current EDC, bring in that truck to run it over! :smiley:

Got an Astrolux K1

Why does it look like a plastic centering ring is sitting inside the reflector instead of under it?

Because it is inside the reflector. I scavenged the center piece from another light and it happens to have a rather high rim. It blocks (the light is not lost but in fact diffused a bit) a bit of light that otherwise would have hit the deepest part of the reflector. The effect is a tiny bit less corona, a tiny bit more spill.

And what makes sapphire lenses better?

They are virtually indestructable, way harder even than mineral glass. Which as said is decadence because the S2+ is as good as indestructable already stock.

You can test it using the water drop test. Google: water drop Sapphire.

Harder means more scratch resistant, but a more flexible lens will be harder to break.

A thick, plastic lens should offer the best protection from breaking.

Exactly. Hardness does not equal toughness.

Nice test, thanks for the heads-up Geuzzz, here it is, would-be sapphire on the left:

Well, my watch has a Sapphire crystal and with all the abuse it gets, it never scratches and never broke (but that can be luck also).

I agree on the plastic lens btw, but it does not look as nice and clear over time.

And sapphire just sounds good, right? :smiley:

Suddenly had to think about the sapphire debacle with the iphone displays some years ago. Apple wanted to have sapphire displays (protection), which is supposed to be better (more expensive) than gorilla glass, but the company manufacturing the sapphire went bankrupt or something…

Looks to be genuine sapphire although the difference is not as big as it can be sometimes. I love sapphire in my watches. Hardlex as Seiko uses in their dive watches may be tougher, but scratchfree sapphire looks so much better.

New arrivals from today and earlier this week.

  • Folomov A1 charger - still testing, I think I like it more than the Nitecore F1 charger
  • Lumintop EDC05 - Better tint than the UTorch UT01, but more expensive, otherwise a VERY nice flashlight
  • Sofirn SF12 - I have bashed this one before, and for some reason decided to get another one. Same driver and emitter, but machining and anodizing is MUCH improved over my first unit, and now it’s reverse clicky instead of forward. It seems I had one from older stock and now it looks like a good product. Still not a fan of the driver and emitter, but it fares much better.
  • Jaxman E3 - Newer model with integrated shelf and so far the disappointment of the lot. The finishing is very nice, the modes are nice and simple with AA (L>M>H, no memory) but with a 14500 all modes are crammed together near max, so close I first thought it was stuck in single mode. I have inquired Jaxman about this and am awaiting a response to see if this is by design or I have a defective driver

I want to order a EDC05. Just can’t find anyone who has them. One on Ebay but that’s about it. Anyone know where to get one?

I get my lumintops from banggood and use M4DM4X’s codes