DQG 18650 EDC--World's Smallest 18650 Flashlight

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.

I had flickering and mode-skipping too, then I backed out the alu ring in the head using needle-nose pliers. The Fujik underneath was not holding well. The ring was rather loose, I think it was making intermittent contact with the driver. So when I cleaned it up and put it back in extra tight, the flickering and mode-skipping went away.
So after cleaning, sanding, spring-fixing, and ring-tightening, the light now works as it should.

I just recieved a couple of brand new panny 3400’s unprotected, neither of them will operate the light what-so-ever; looking closely at the brass postive contact I don’t think the panny are making contact with it, because of the pannys postive tip being almost flat/level with the cell itself. Still so far, I’ve had the very best results using the EagleTac 3400’s.

FYI It’s $35 shipped on their retail site: http://www.fancyflashlights.com/goods.php?id=632 (prices on this site include “free” shipping) also listed is the Panasonic 3100mAh 18650 [Plus $5.00]

Yes exactly he lowered the price after some of us paid the full retail + shipping as I stated above, I paid $38.43
I’m fully aware cnqg charges shipping & FF prices include shipping; still doesn’t change what I stated and has occurred, the facts remain the same.