Hey, I resemble that remark!
Anyways, I didn't think this torch was much brighter on 14500s either, until I took a picture against a wall and compared the two shots. Oh yeah, very much brighter, but your eyes have difficulty seeing it.
By my rough workings out this torch uses 2.23W on energiser nimh and 2.99W on grey protected trustfire 14500. Don't take those figures as absolute but as a comparison.
@Boaz - Thanks, good advise. I was prepared to wreck the torch in the name of science lol. Read about some of these torches working fine with 14500's and some burning the driver, guess I got a good un. I'm not too bad with a soldering iron either so killing a LED/board isn't a big deal, and this torch is nicely made so will probably get an upgrade in the future anyway :)
what seller did you get this from on ebay.
Search for the following and you will see several different versions (and prices) of this light:
Adjustable Focus CREE Q5 LED 200 Lumen Flashlight Torch
Adjustable Focus CREE Q5 LED Flashlight Torch Headlamp
Adjustable Focus CREE Q5 LED 300Lumen Flashlight Torch
CREE Q5 Adjustable Focus 200LM LED Flashlight Torch
right, but none show sipik in the picture.
most are "King Fire" lol
As I said: Several different versions!
I took it that you have allready tried to search "SipiK" yourself. I get at least 14 hits.
But most Sipik´s are Q3 not Q5 as most non Sipik´s are.
i bet they are all q3... its probably just what they say to get u to buy it... i decided ill hold off.
got the edi http://www.dealextreme.com/p/edi-t-t11-cree-q3-wc-3-mode-160-lumen-convex-lens-led-flashlight-black-1-123a-1-16340-50680
just ordered it, since it looks nicer, and looks smaller lol
i just spent 80 and dx, 70 at manafont, and i STILL havent placed the order for parts i need at KD..... im gonna wait 2 weeks to order those for my next paycheck lol
time to do my taxes so i can get that refund... good thing i NEVER got a stimulus like most people....
i feel bad for people who STILL support this administration. i can see how people were blind at first, but to STILL support this one too....
this country is screwed.... VOTE NADER!
I have one of the non Sipik versions and are very satisfied with it, Q5 or not.
Your last chapter: Many people gets carried away by sweet talking and vote
with their feelings not their brain. Happens here too.
....must resist political discourse.
Well at least you didn't mention religion, now that's like a red rag to a bull.
Red rag time. Until 2006 I worked for the Church of Scotland. I now work for the NHS doing the same job (as I have done since 1989) in the same place. For less pay.
Politics:
"How do you tell when a politician is lying"
"When their lips are moving"
I remember being totally awestruck by my local MSP's capacity for brandy. He was on his third pint and still coherent at one dinner I got invited to.
Last time I looked tis was a rather international forum ;so why local politics
Ontopic: I ordered one at DX was OK but one of the screws of the pocket clip was smaller and did fall out (strange??!)
non flashaholic Buddies liked it also and I have now a handfull on order (DX)
Offtopic:
Because I felt like it.
/Offtopic
Ontopic:
I have a couple of no-name clones of this light. Like all the flood-zoom lights I've bought I end up not using them much or at all.
You lose 50% of the output at zoom. The best of them loses "only" 40%.
I've bought several of them and most have died or been given away - they aren't a category of light I personally find useful. Others disagree and that's fine - but I won't be buying any more of them.
It is pretty much like me and the Romisen RC-G2. I want to like them but completely fail to do so.
A couple of years ago most of my local council had to be thrown out of a town centre pub for being drunk and disorderly, several of them ended up getting taken away by the police as they kicked up a fuss (Do you know who I am!!). I think I'd pick the high functioning alcoholic over this lot :P
It's not about killing the driver or led yeah that's not cool but my concern is to overdischarge a lithium ion battery purposefully didn't seem like something you wanted to do ..Ask someone smarter than me I'm certainly not mr. wizard here when it comes to batteries .. i just have been warned plenty of times that lithium ion abuse will yield bad bad results ..like fire or explosions if abused ...
This thread has my interest...i'm lusting for this sipik68
yep ...this is a international forum ... it took me 12 minutes just to figure out what a MSP was ... Member /Scottish /Parliment.
I don't feel any smarter ..!
Offtopic:
Because I felt like it.
/Offtopic
Sorry Don, I did not react on you but on a previous poster (post is now gone)
This was my first zoom flashlight and I like it how in the unzoomed mode it trows out a even beam without the hotspot
Often I cannot use my throwers closeby because the hotspot is to bright in comp. with the spill
That fact also renewed my interest in something like the zebralight or the new Ultrafires with headband
Yes, for close-up stuff a very floody light is much more useful - hotspots can become dazzling. I remember having to take the reflector out of a light while working in small, dark spaces. Everything I had with me was too bright for the distances I was working at. This is less common nowadays as I have become rather long-sighted and prefer not to work in tiny spaces.
In most such jobs I needed both hands so a headlamp was the most suitable light for me. The classic example is fiddling with cables at the back of a computer - usually in a brightly lit office, but behind a desk and usually minimal space to work in. Seeing what you are doing does help a lot..
I like the way that a headlamp is pretty much automatically pointing the way you are looking.
+1
Figure your eyesight fifteen years in the future. Your body does'nt even want to access the back of a computer. My situation....
As they say round here, "aul' age disnae come alone." (Old age doesn't arrive unaccompanied)
Yes, I'm less keen on crawling into tiny spaces to fix things I can't see. But these days I am less likely to put a staple through the network cable in the first place. Assuming I can get to them nowadays. Thus far I've been able to get away with reading glasses but that is going to change soon. Or maybe, I'll have saved enough by then to pay someone else to do it. Somehow I doubt that....
is here anyone,who see on the sipik ofificial website email to them?????