FOLOMOV EDC-C4 & A1 magnetic charger

Heard you the first time

nice flashlight and awesome pictures

dqg tiny is smaller - 87mm, but - not rechargeable = - and i had 2 out of 2 fail.

manker u11 is 105mm, almost same size , it is rechargeable, and i had 1 out of 1 fail.

wle

You can put a battery with a built-in charger in Tiny. It won’t work as a powerbank, but that’s probably the smallest 18650 light with a charger included.

Mine has not failed (so far)…what kind of problems did you have with it?

yes the dqg tiny is still the smallest 18650 light .

how did it fail ?

(i’ve posted this before, i am still mad at dqg for this)

light 1: switch broke loose from board, leading me to take apart [hard due to glued driver] and discover a fragile switch, a bad mounting method, and poor soldering, not user replaceable even though i can solder, for many reasons…

light 2: became intermittent, light would not come on, light would come on then fade out randomly, finally it would not come on at all

wle

I see a M4DM4X code for Folomov EDC-C4.
It seems very good to me, but I’m not sure.
Can anyone help me with the following questions?
What price is considered very good for this light? What’s the historical low?

Anyone…

I think it would be good for $35, that is what a manker u11 costs, it is about the same more or less.

Thanks for the input…this is not the same though. Manker has a buck driver, Folomov - not sure. Folomov has bad UI. And overall quality may be worse than Manker. However, it can be used as a powerbank and I believe it’s still the best flashlight-powerbank on the market.

I have one. The UI is not great. My main issue is that it won’t charge the newest iPhone (8/8+ or X) unless they have changed the charging chip.

For flashlight-powerbank, isn’t it there’s also the Fitorch P20R and the Vollsion which looks very similar. Am wondering what aspects is the Folomov EDC C4 consider as better?
(we’re not considering the Xiaomi lower-powered powerbank-flashlight and the Xiaomi FZ101 zoomable flashlight-powerbank)

Frankly, I have forgotten about them. I did so because they are simply uninteresting for me. Why?
Because for flashlight-powerbank I consider size and weight to be of critical importance and they seem to disregard it.
Fitorch is 41% larger and 38% heavier (battery weight included).
Xiaomi is 21% larger and 55% heavier. And has smaller capacity, compounding the size deficiency.

Got my C4. It’s quite a bit larger than DQG Tiny, both when it comes to length and diameter. Nevertheless quite small. Quality is OK. UI is OK, the kind of a ramp works for me and I like how blinkies are out of the way. Though mode memory bugs me. As always. :wink:
The charging cable is way longer than needed. Like 4 times longer.

Lens seems uncoated, I’d like to find a replacement. I will seek GITD o-rings as well.
The light is not glued, replacing the LED with one that suits me better should be easy.
Has anyone tried to do a resistor mod?

BTW, for those who haven’t noticed:
Thanks to Folomov, EDC-C4 is no longer the smallest 18650 flashlight-powerbank.
DQG Tiny 4th is. How?….Folomov has released an 18700 battery with a built-in powerbank. Should be DQG-compatible. :slight_smile:

ADDED:
After some use I don’t like the ramp.
Mode memory means that when I turn on the light I don’t know what mode to expect.
Ramp means that if I change mode I don’t know if it will become dimmer or brighter. :person_facepalming:
So I have to downgrade my UI rating to “bad but passable”.

I have been using the Folomov as my EDC, The only thing to make this light perfect is if it came with a Narsil interface, BTW. I switched the LED to 3A tint and just love it!

GIVE US A NARSIL INTERFACE FOLOMOV!!!

I second that.

Some more comments:
I was surprised to learn that this light accepts protected cells. And even more so to learn that it actually comes with a protected cell.
Also, it requires cells to be button top.

*_narsil - hear hear! or is it here here!? wle _*

==how did you get ramping? mine doesn;t do ramping….
do you mean the thing where it steps up til you get to the top then back down ? (L M H T H M L…)

give me narsil!
i hate mode memory too, you never know where it will start. plus you never know if it will get dimmer or brighter as you press

wle

It’s what you wrote wle, modes going up and down. Like a ramp, but stepped.

right, i hate that too… 7 presses to change one level… uck

wle

I complained about the cable being long…
I invested a whooping $0.16 in a shorter/lighter one:

Works great. Now C4 is very comparable in size to my single-18650 powerbank.

OTOH the stock cable has its special uses too: it enables you to connect 2 devices to a single outlet and charge them simultaneously.