DQG 18650 EDC--World's Smallest 18650 Flashlight

Interesting light, but considering my experience with DQG low quality I will pay $30 max.

4500k is my vote

$30 is the most im willing to pay

eagerly awaiting more info……

I’d like NW - as warm as possible, 4000k would be great.

CW is fine for throwers, but I need NW or warm color rendering for flooders & close useage.

Very nice looking flashlight. $30 or less sounds about right.

4000~ 4500

This torch ever going to be released? Is RIC ever going to give us more info on it???

Posted on 02.03.2013. "Next week" would be anything between 04.03 and 08.03. Plus 10-15 days would be anywhere between 14.03 and 23.03. Be patient. ;)

The silver flashlight looks sexy though. Most lights here in the forums are black. It’s nice to see something different.

CW (7000K-7500K)

CW 6,000 - 6,500K for me

I was waiting for the release (or at least a price), but I got tired of the long wait, so I already bought an EDC, and i forget about this one

I’m using a SC52 for my EDC now, but will probably get one of these too if the price isn’t stupid, and has a nice tint

Just one EDC? haha riiiiiiight :slight_smile:

How many do you usually EDC? I don’t need seven flashlights with me full time…

My work EDC’s are a SC52 and P5R. Will be adding this to it eventually…

…and my non work EDC will probably end up as the SC600 MkII

Well, I typically have at least 1 keychain light + 1 pocket/neck light on me. Sometimes a 3rd in a bag or jacket.

But I (like many here) have a rotation of several “EDC” type lights [knives too]. I say EDC-type meaning anything you can conveniently carry & use on a daily basis.

This is open to interpretation depending what your daily duties consist of… I am sure active military operators & law enforcement officers would have different definition of EDC than your common office worker type.

Exactly, I’m a firey, so I always have a torch clipped onto my turnout gear, as well as a torch in my normal wear pants.

As well as a torch on my helmet too. The crummy incans we carry on the trucks are…well…crummy.

Thanks for your service sir.

Can’t believe they have you guys using halfassed incans… well actually I can… the bastards in the ivory towers can’t handle a budget to save their lives haha

The torches on the trucks (if you or anyone has heard of em) are Streamlight SL-20’s, but REALLY old ones.
When I recieved my SC52, one of my non-flashaholic laughed at it. I told him to grab a SL20 and we compared. It was a bloodbath - the SC52 is 25% of the length / body diametre of the SL20, but has at least 5 times the brightness.

Really happy with the SC52, can’t wait for the 900lm SC600 to be released…

Happy, yesterday I received the new driver for my DQG AAA that was kindly gifted to me by Ric, with an spare foam insert going with it. It was without a led, so I had to reflow one on it. Tiny, tiny, tiny!!! And other components on the same board on both sides . Decided to clamp the driver in, put solderpaste on the board and some on the new led that was going in and heated the board from the underside onto the battery plus contact board. My 15W solder iron did not nearly give off enough heat to get through the (non-metal) driver board, so I changed to the gas-heated iron . It took a while, the whole board got steaming hot but the led flowed in place eventually, without the other components floating away:

(hey, that is not a Cree led )

And to my surprise (after all this heat) the led fired up . Assembled the light, earlier I had ruined the TIR a bit so the light has become a bit floodier now, but that is actually fairly nice for this small nearby light. I am a happy owner of a working DQGIIIAAA again, and now in 92+ CRI . Thanks Ric!