I finally ordered the P10 from here at Ali. Probably will come after the holidays, depends when it will ship, for real that is... NYS sales tax is tough to swallow now, but total is about the same at BG - could not get any discounts on BG because of reduced price. Now it says one order, guess that's me...
I’ve been using one of these for about a year. I like the form factor. I don’t like the bluish tint, the male USB charging under the tail cap, and especially the strobe in the main mode sequence.
I got it at half price via Vipon coupon and it’s good for the price and I carry it clipped to my belt daily. It seems pretty tough - it’s been popped off my belt and hit the ground many times and still works fine. It’s heavy enough that I’ve always heard it when it hits the ground, floor or whatever.
I’d love to have an AA size light in this format, but with better tint and UI.
Actually, I’d love to have this light updated with better UI and tint.
Thank you sir!
Once I get around to ordering, receiving and tearing some of these apart I can post a few pics of the internals. Most will be junk but with some luck and maybe some custom pills/spacers from kiriba-ru, some of these options should be good enough.
I missed the reflector. It may be a maglight-style zoomie and the use of a word “focusing” clearly suggest some zoom mechanism. But I’ve seen Chinese people call other lights which simply had twisty UI “zooming” - and this seems to have a magnetic ring.
So it may be just a translation error.
Rcv'd it today! Not bad - quite bright in flood mode, and much wider flooder than a 1504, and wayyy easier/faster to zoom in/out - it's a slider!! Stiff enough to not easily go on it's own. The head diam is 80 mm, maybe ~79 mm at the widest so the lens looks the same width as the 1504, no bigger. Ugly UI, as expected - gotta click thru all modes to turn it off: hi-med-lo-strobe. Hold button down for 3 secs and it auto switches modes - no advantage there.
The 7 square images at max spot mode is pretty bad... Been testing it on the provided no label cell as-is, and still the light does well. Might be a boost driver, not sure yet. No square threads on this budget light, but nice o-rings on the batt tube, big thick tail spring. Side e-switch feels pretty good, actually, and the condition is bout perfect - no dings or noticeable imperfections. It's a big light though - wayy longer than a 1504. You'd think it could take 2 18650's given it's length, but there's a lot of wasted space.
The AAA version i already have, so i had to order the AA version too.
It’s nice and compact, as opposed to the good old SK68 design.
It’s possibly the most compact (read thin walled) AA zoomie on the market.
Luckily they make it of military grade aircraft aluminium (recycled WWII planewrecks?)
Oh hey, i missed that one!
It seems to be listed no longer, but maybe i’ll find it, as part of the SkyWolfEye® sleek zoomie series.
(there’s also a 2x AAA version by the way)
Well I got two 1504's and got ~500 kcd on a good dedomed good XPG2, also got a red and green pill and they do very well. I made up a 1504 pill with a SBT90.2 recently and measured 545 kcd at 21 amps.
Dunno, but I think it does well, maybe not as good as a B158 for it's size, but they are the best performing aspherics I have.
For this P10 light, haven't taken measurements yet but won't really know til I get a decent LED in it.
Comparing the P10 stock to the 1504 w/SBT90.2, the spot on the 1504 is much brighter (measured ~2400 lumens at 30s, calibrated) but much narrower. The flood mode on the P10 is nice and wide, and of course is about perfect compared to reflectors or TIR's. Looking down at the LED, the P10's LED appears to be closer to the lens - it zooms about 37 mm, while the 1504 zooms about 23 mm.