I recieved a Micro from Neal today. It’s pretty cute and pocket friendly. I’ll do a quick review of it.
The quality is just as good as the Mini, just smaller. I have the Cool White version.
Unfortunately I only had a protected Evva 800mah 14500 non-high drain battery in my stash.
I did some tail cap amp draws using the UT210E clamp meter.
Top of ramp - 1.65A
Turbo at 3 secs - 2.75
Turbo amperage dropped fast due to this battery. I thought about buying a Windyfire and wait till it gets in to report my findings, but I decided to rip the protection circuitry off instead to see what happens. There was only a small increase in output.
Unprotected Evva 800mah
Top of ramp - 1.80A
Turbo at 3 secs - 2.90
Turbo at 30 secs - 2.40
I used my Maukka calibrated TA Lumen Tube to measure the output.
Top of ramp - 470 lm
Turbo at 3 secs - 770 lm
Turbo at 30 secs - 690 lm
To measure throw I use my LX1330B lux meter at 10 meters.
At 10 seconds I got 53Kcd or 460 meters.
At 30 seconds the output dropped to 46Kcd or 429 meters.
Not bad for a tiny light running on a not so great battery. I want to order a high drain cell to see what it can really do.
Parasitic drain was lower than the Mini at 140 microamps with the switch light on and 0.3 microamps with the switch light off. The Mini was 180/20. Did anyone else get a super low drain for the switch light being off? That’s crazy low drain.
A few pics with the Mini:
The rubber button is just a tiny bit smaller on the Micro.
It’s surprising just how small it is compared to the Mini. It makes my hand look giant. Lol
EDIT:
I recieved my high drain Windyfire 650mah button top battery. Here are the updated numbers.
Tail cap amp draws using the UT210E clamp meter.
Top of ramp - 2.2A
Turbo at 3 secs - 4.6A
Turbo at 30 secs - 4.1A
Maukka calibrated TA Lumen Tube to measure the output.
Top of ramp - 650 lm
Turbo at 1 secs - 1100 lm
Turbo at 30 secs - 970 lm
To measure throw I use my LX1330B lux meter at 10 meters.
At 10 seconds I got 63Kcd or 502 meters.
At 30 seconds the output dropped to 60Kcd or 490 meters.