First impression- nicely boxed, no blemishes. Something rattling around inside the battery tube. Turns out the forward retainer ring is not installed.
Charging- battery voltage 3.6 out of the box. Initial charge current .86 amps. Three hours latter light turns green, voltage 4.01, still showing .51 amp charge current. Three more hours 4.21 volt, 0 amp charge current. So if you want the max. charge you can leave it on past green without overcharging.
UI- This took me awhile to figure out.
Single press-on at high
Single press-off but only if waiting about 7 seconds. Single press before 7 sec. drops output to medium. Single press again before 7 sec. drops output to low. Another single press turns light off. Another single press back to on at high level. If you want to turn the light off before 7 sec., press and hold.
Blinkies- rapidly press 2, maybe 3 times to enter fast strobe, either from off or on. To cycle through the 3 different ones, press once to go to slow strobe. Press once again to go the SOS. Once more turns off. This also has to be done right after turn on. If you wait more than 7 sec., the light will turn off rather than cycle.
Beam- Ok outside. A couple close up rings but decent throw, wide spill. CT probably around 5500 approximately.
Switch- initially stiff but use will probably soften it up. Mine dose allow tail stand.
No means to lock out. No spare o-rings. No grease. Can run at high without overheating.
After further playing around with this for a second night I have found the UI to go skitzo occasionally. For instance, it with enter into strobe with a single click from on or off.
I haven’t had that happen yet, sometimes it will start off in the middle mode, I haven’t paid enough attention to figure out what I’m doing, or if it’s something else
Also some DC Fix does wonders for the beam.Not sure about the wisdom of turning it into a flooder though except that it doesn’t get hot on high while most smaller flooders do.
If you turn it off in medium with the press and hold method and then turn it back on it will be in medium . Usually. Seems to only do it that way the first time though. If you turn it off this way again, it comes back on in high. Quirky.
I have so many better thrower options like C8T or FT03 I would not buy another. For gifting or car light, it is ok. I am not a big user of throwers usually. YMMV
Ahhhh you’re right! Mine will consistently start in the mode it was in if I hold the switch down to turn it off with 7 seconds or so. After restarting it in the ‘saved’ mode the light will turn off immediately if I press the switch rather than cycling through the modes.
Both cells rang in at ~5300mAH at 1A in my Opus. Not bad.
Seems pretty heavyweight, not like it’s gonna melt down if left on high unattended.
Slap on some diffusion film, make it a flooder for a good inside-light (prowling around the basement/attic, etc.), and have fun.
The cell itself is worth a few bux, easily, so the cost of the big bruiser of a light itself for the leftover cost is absolutely worth it. Who cares about a wonky UI if it’d be a house light? Just click a few times to get the mode you want.
I can’t find my meter :person_facepalming: , but has anyone measured cell voltage when the charging light just goes green, and then when it sits a while, ostensibly still charging? Is what was reported the norm, or just a fluke(haha)?
Big honkin’ 26650s only let me fit 2 in my Opus, so can’t even check voltage on a 3rd cell that way (got the cells on refresh mode, so that’s 3 up’n’downs, and it’s still going).
I unplugged mine shortly after it went green and figured I’d check it, and then… where’s my meter?!?
I’ll have to wait ’til the other cells finish refreshing. Over 5300 is pretty good. :party:
One thing I do like quite a bit are the green LEDs. They’re that nice emerald green vs the typische yellow-green everyone and his grandmother uses for “green”. I noticed those deep-green LEDs on Novabuses (side-exit door indicator), and really like that shade.
