When I first got the Emisar D18, I didn't have enough high-drain button-top 18650s to test the D18 with, so I used Sanyo NCR18650GA, which fortunately worked on the D18.
I have since then been able to get a few button-top VTC6, and re-tested the D18.
On an uncalibrated lux meter and doing a simple ceiling bounce test (with fully-charged 3x GA and fully-charged 3x button-top VTC6), the button-top VTC6 has higher lux reading.
Below are video beamshots of the D18 (but taken on different nights), using 3x raised-flat-top NCR18650GA, and 3x button-top VTC6
Yep - Captain Obvious. GA, and even better: Samsung 35E's are a great cell to up the runtime, lower the amps, though the 35E's in my experience do higher amps than the GA's. You could be pushing the GA and 35E cells rather high on the amp draw though which lowers the runtime -- funny how these tradeoff's work.
You'll see the GA cell doesn't lose much capacity when drawing 3 amps vs. 10 amps - yes capacity lowers but not a lot.
On 3 cells like the GA on the D18, speculating amps is 15-20 amp total (???), so only 5-7 amps per cell, which should be fine, and of course, only that much on max output.
Even if the draw is closer to 30 amps, still 10 amps per cell is good on short max runs.
I would want that. A cu+ti setup like the D4ti run would be awesome and I’d buy it immediately. You’re right though - it would certainly not be lightweight and other folks may not like that, so I may be in the minority here.
:laughing: :laughing: Sounds about right. Its fine though, I like it here
Well I’m probably the wrong person to comment since apparently I’m all alone waaayyy over here, but this is what I’m doing. I don’t need a D18 so I haven’t bought a D18, because I know that if a special run came out I’d want it and then my “standard” one, which I didn’t need anyway, would just be an unwanted extra. But that isn’t a great solution because I do want a D18 and if that special run never happens, I’ve held out for…nothing?
Its the host that I want to be “special”, not the guts. Something besides aluminum, preferably. I mean I guess I could order up a standard host, strip the ano and re-anodize it in some funky color, that might be fun. Eh, we’ll see…
Odd, I find the D18 to be pretty special as is. The craftsmanship alone sets it apart from most manufacturers. I don’t mind alternative materials but the fact you can tint mix makes it pretty custom already.