that’s correct - no 14500s for this light!
Craig
eneloops work great in this light 
They sure do. I'm playing with mine right now........The EA4 that is!! sheesh, you guys have filthy minds!
i assumed you were playing with your hair
Ordered the xml2 version, cause I’m weak. Thanks for offering these 
Agreed it can be annoying shipping to Canada from the US. And the big increase in USPS costs has made it even worse. (In fairness to the USPS, FedEx and UPS costs have gone a mile high over the past couple of years, so you had to figure they’d get in on the action too.)
On the other hand, I ordered my EA4 XM-L2 from Illumination Supply Feb 14 and it arrived today Feb 19!
In a very well packaged proper box, not the abused bubble pack mailers we get so often get from China.
So I’ll continue to use Fasttech for batteries and budget lights, but for something really nice I’m going with Illumination Supply, my experience with them has been superb!
+1 i had to get one… I love my ea4w too much and itneeds a cw friend
any tint shift? flickering? does the light function ok?
if everything seems ok, then its probably fine… at the worst maybe you shortened the life of the emitter by 2 or 3 hours, but with a 20,000 hour life span who cares
more orange-ish
heres a photo of various tints… which one do you like best?
taken from here: http://www.cpfmarketplace.com/mp/showthread.php?282794-Malkoff-M61WL-M61-219L-M61
That’s really interesting about the Canadian shipping rates because there is a guy on LPF that sells LPM’s that charges $39.99 (Canadian) <1lb for shipping to the USA and says he can’t control the high cost of shipping because the rates are so high. Worst is he charges UK etc $69.99 (Canadian) same parcel………now we know that is BS.
Canada poste is all over the board, its cheaper for me to ship to the USA than it is to other Canadians.
daveam, Did you recall how much you paid for shipping and if any duties were charged? Trying to gauge the total cost for the EA4 XM-L2 to Canada.
I just got the ea4 xm-l2 and was just wandering is my ea4 defected…or its the ea4 all the same….with new new battery that the only time when u could go to turbo mode, but when battery get to about 90% which is still full…I cant go to turbo mode…not unless the battery life at 91% and up then it go to turbo…im using non rechargeble aa Duracell battery…help help
Yes, without Nimh batteries you won’t get much more turbo than your getting.
Alkalines voltage sags pretty quick, energizer lithium or Nimh cells are the way to go.
I’m thinking you will have to use NiMh AA rechargeables to get the full potential from your light. I have no such problem with mine.
At this point, IS is cheaper than FT on the ‘older’ EA4 w/XM-L. FT = $53.78 shpd - IS = $52.58 shpd . . . yes, the coupon works on the older model. Not to mention the shipping time will be MUCH quicker from Craig. Buy from ’Merica!!
Craig, could you talk some more about the heat difference between the XM-L and XM-L2?
I did the same, and of course it also got pretty hot, that’s how I noticed it. However it does not appear to have suffered any noticeable damage or degraded output from the emitter, so I suspect you’ll also be OK.
+1