DQG 18650 EDC--World's Smallest 18650 Flashlight

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Am I the only one that has not received the DQG? Still no sign of it, anywhere!!

Have you found out what was causing the problem yet?

Have you gotten a tracking number yet? Also, when did you order? Was it part of the pre-order?

Yeah its a pre-order! Got a number but singpost cant track it, nore can the swedish mail! Never lost a light in the mail! Have to send Ric a hollar i guess…

Hi,

A couple of things:

- How long ago did you get the tracking #?

- If you have an Android tablet or phone, try an app called “TrackChecker”. It sometimes can dig out information that the USPS.com (for instance) doesn’t/isn’t able to.

- Yes, PM or email RIC-CN.

Jim

I’ll try after dinner to pull it apart without tearing anything up. Ric is sending me out a new driver+emitter so going to have to learn pulling it apart anyway.
Once apart I’ll give it a probing with my DMM.

Well that was easier to take apart than expected, hemostats in the little holes on the inside of the head, and the silver plate thing just screwed right out. Took off the bezel and TIR, pushed on the emitter with the pad of my thumb and it popped right out.
Then I realized, WTF am I even look for, no idea what is going on between battery going in and photons coming out…
BTW: I couldn’t wait for dinner time…

I still haven’t received mine yet either… pre-order…

however, my tracking is now activated…. perhaps try again in a couple of days? fingers crossed…

Can you post pictures of what the board looks like, especially the led side (I have seen the other side already) ?

IF you still can’t track it, definitely email Ric. My original tracking number was replaced by a new tracking number. I wouldn’t have known about it unless I emailed Ric.



Not sure how to clean that grey stuff off or what it even is. When it goes back together after my new board comes in, could I sandwich a bunch of thermal paste for PC heat sinks in there? Thinking that more contact between the board and body might help things, there is almost none as is.

pics or it didn’t happen :wink:

Pics of the board are in the post #668… the one above yours, Haterade.

whoops. pics are broken for me. weird.

edit: think they are blocked by my work. lame.
sorry to get of topic guys.

pics in post #668 work for me…

Well my black one just arrived today, it wasn’t a pre-order light, so I had to pay the full $35 + shipping. It’s all black like it should be, had the clear o-ring wrong on the lens, had to change that, only had 1 o-ring on the light’s body but there was 3 spares in the box so I put one of those on the body so now I have 2 black o-rings on it. I cleaned the little brass contact as it looked really black & dirty. Lubed-up the threads and put a battery in it, nothing, so I tried a few and I found that while they all seemed to fit just fine, keeppower 3400 (68.68mm), Panasonic 3100 unprotected, orbtronic 3400, nitecore 3100.

What worked just fine for me was a EagleTac 3400 (68.04mm x 18.48mm) no fitment issues what-so-ever with the EagleTac 3400, I don’t know why the Panasonic 3100 didn’t work since it’s “advertised” to work with the light, probably has something to do with the spring that is just dropped into the bottom of the light, the center of the spring is completely off; but for me I couldn’t get the light to turn on at all with the the panny.

I’m not complaining though because I really like the EagleTac 3400’s anyway and I have several of them on hand anyway. It’s a shame I had to take the lens apart and fix the o-ring and then clean the light up, but I’ve been following this thread and so it wasn’t a surprise, but for the money I spent I don’t think I really should have had to do that especially since my light wasn’t a pre-oder light, AND to add insult to injury I now see on cnqg’s website, the price price has dropped to $30 now.

Maybe you should PM or email RIC about the price. I don’t know if he’d do anything about it, but I guess that if it was me, I’d at least try to ask, esp. since you had the same problems as with the pre-order lights and all…

Yea I might do that, I ’m going to wait until dark so that I can fully test the light out better, it’s way too sunny here even with the drapes closed to get a good look at the beam; then we’ll see.

I started out using Panasonic unprotected 3100 flat top cells that I mistakenly ordered from FastTech and they worked but I still experienced the erratic mode skipping and flickering while trying to single hand operate it. After reading your post I tried my button top unprotected 3100 Panasonic cells and they work much better. If I deliberately and slowly change modes with one hand it works flawlessly. If I try quick easy one handed changes it still messed up about 3 times in 20 but that is better than 10-15 out of 20 with the flat tops. Weird that they won’t work in yours. I guess no 2 DQG Tiny’s are alike.