Enogear AA Stainless Steel (AA/14500)

I always though that there was a typing mistake and that this was a 18650 light, not 18500 :person_facepalming:
So…how hard would be to mod it Dale? :smiling_imp:

Mind posting any thing on its “entrails”, please? :innocent:

It has a brass pill threaded into the head much like a Convoy S2 (the old style, without the integrated emitter shelf), simple enough to bump the existing driver with a couple of 7135 chips or swap it out with an FET+1 style driver like the X6 Bistro. (which is what I did) I also swapped in an XP-L V3 3A HI on a Noctigon. Basic stuff, not all that difficult to do.

Edit: FWIW, I didn’t put a spring on the Bistro driver but instead built up the pad with solder just enough for the cell to make contact without the retaining ring impeding it. This allows the 18500 to fit inside, don’t think a button top cell would allow the tail cap to go on fully. Would probably still work as everything here is brass so ground is good with first contact of the threads.

There is a white plastic insulation disc in the tail cap to isolate the switch and there is a white plastic centering ring for the aluminum reflector, other than the glass lens and the o-rings everything else is brass. Everything! Even the button to turn the light on/off. My wife has had a DQG Brass Beauty in her purse for years, this one is EXACTLY the same except the battery tube is shorter and doesn’t have flats cut on it’s side. The heads match up perfectly as do the tail caps.

For what you say it wouldn’t be an hard mod! (so it seems)
Gonna keep this in mind as that light is gorgeaus :wink:

Also, if I perceived well the pill doesn’t have a shelf? I thought the S2 pills were like the S2+ only being shorter.

In any case DTP MCPCB (noctigon or not) are recommended to allow the led to light up according to the driver’s power!
Thanks again for the explanation Dale :wink:

This DQG has a threaded in pill, I guess the S2+ also has a pill as I got a copper one from Hoop for this light, so yeah, it’s kinda like that. Or a Sinner EDC. :slight_smile:

Yes, the brass pill has a stepped shelf for the MCPCB, a 16mm Noctigon fits right in. I never allow an aluminum MCPCB to stay in a light, never. I have over 100 20mm SinkPAD’s here, I’ll make one of those fit if I don’t have the right board. lol

The new 18500 Brass Beauty next to the old 18650…

And, Read em and weep Boys, read em and weep! :smiley:

I have another sheet that is more complete factory wise that I’m saving out, not planning to use. And at least a sheet’s worth on my bench, some on a sheet and some already broken down…

I was on friendly terms with the Lady at SinkPAD when they switched over from their original to the SinkPADII version, I bought 200 of the old ones, the last they had in stock. :wink:

I could be wrong but I suspect these are not brass but instead, bronze. See how the old one hasn’t blackened with age? No special care, it sits in my wife’s purse and get’s used whenever she needs a light. She’s also got a tiny little Olight Titanium in her purse as well as a blue Emisar D4. :smiley:

She likes to tell the story of a late night leaving the hospital when a couple of Security Guards were trying to assist a Nurse who’d locked her keys in the car. They were trying to shine their light through tinted windows in an attempt to locate said keys inside the car but were having difficulty getting enough light inside to see. My wife offered up the Brass Beauty and they were like, “It’s ok ma’am, we’ve got this, you’re little light wouldn’t be much help anyway.” Then she turned it on and put it up against the glass and they were amazed! lol Spotted the keys on the floor in front of the seat where the Nurse had dropped them in getting out of the car…

Always a nice story to show how “flashaholics’ lights” are not “little lights” :wink: :smiling_imp:

Hum, now it’s me who’s getting leaned towards that Beauty!! I won’t be hard to mod it at all if the pill is like the S2+. MTN drivers will fit on that one for sure, with guppy3drv, it will be a nice light :wink:
A Luxeon V (4000K) can also be a good choice for the emitter.

A long list of desired lights, a short list on the bank account though :person_facepalming:
Thanks Dale :+1:

How are the threads on the brass 18500?

I once had the AA brass version and the threads were really tiny.

I have 0.5mm threads and just got through cutting some 0.75mm that are pretty fine, tiny works, lol.

I think these are 0.75mm, without measuring. It allows for a short piece of threaded attachment while still catching 6 or 7 threads. You can’t afford to mess up any threads though…

2 months from ordering, still no light. I won’t order there again.

they are slow but it will arrive.

just be patient and forget about your order :smiley:

Should have complained sooner, next day the light turns up :person_facepalming:

Very nice light for the money. Bought it as a host, but the tint and output are very acceptable. Gonna leave it as is for now and use it as a general around the house / family light on nihm. At least till my sw40 r9080 nichia’s arrive.

Just returning to say that after a few days of edcing this light I like it even more. Maybe because I wasn’t expecting much, but it performs well above its price.

- More than enough output on an eneloop

- verry nice handfeel

- good mode spacing on nihm

- Tint is great, I probably wont even change the emiter.

- clicky has a verry nice feel

  • ss, but not to heavy to edc, much better than for instance the ultrafire C3

It has become my ” dress EDC ” . It has some style.

Just got mine. I am very impressed, for what I paid it is a bargain. Love the tint.

Just trying to get up the courage to stick a 14500 in it. Do I risk it?

I did not risk it. It has decent output on nihm and I had no non-lion lights left so I am fine with an AA in this one.

Go for it. Mine so far has been ok with 14500. It is a really cool little light , right?

14500 is all that I have used in mine - no problems

I have never run mine on anything but 14500. Never a single problem. Think I tried a NiMh in it one time just to see the difference. Worked just fine. Just down on brightness a little of course. If it’s bright enough for you with NiMh then buy a pack of Eneloops and turn off all the lights in the house tonight. Use the flashlight, and flashlight only as your only means of illumination. Tail stand it for taking a shower or using the facilities. Tail stand in the kitchen for cooking. Just use it for everything you do for a whole night. I have never made it a whole night. The kids yell at me and the wife calls the doctor and he shows up with needles and then next thing I know I wake up the next morning. I think my wife is pulling a fast one on me. Not sure though.

Y’all got me to look into EnoGear and I bought the little 18500 Brass Beauty. I had modified it with an X6 Bistro driver and XP-L HI emitter for some 1300 lumens but a friend was wanting me to modify his and he was wondering how the SST-40 would perform in it, so this afternoon I stuck an SST-40 in mine, pulled the cheap switch and put in a mini Omten and soldered the small berryllium spring to the switches contact pad.

On moon it makes 0.61 lumens, on Turbo it makes a whopping 2350 lumens from a flat top Efest 1000mAh 18500 cell. :smiley:

Oh, and it get’s hot. Really hot. Really quick!