First thing it needs is a diffuser; very ringy as noted.
Feels like solid hardware though, fairly thick wall, smooth threads feel ok.
Glad Djozz already pulled his apart so I don’t have to do that just out of curiosity.
I’ll wait on someone else to mod it; typical blue-white emitter is the next thing that needs replacing.
And of course it’s hi/low/strobe/sos.
No-mode-memory — it reverts to high each time it’s left shut off, that’s tolerable.
Of course I wish for moon/l/m/h; that’ll be a mod later, I hope.
I’m really liking mine so far. Battery life seems good, and it’s nice and floods for close work. No PWM that I can notice, and it feels nice and solid in the hand but light in the headband. A lower low in addition would be nice, but For the price I’m satisfied.
Your post reminded me how much I hate the ringy beam so I just stuck a piece of 3m removable tape over the lense and cut around the circle with a razor and it made a real nice blended beam
I’ve had mine for a week already. The beam is really ringy but the light serves its purpose and is much more comfy than the energizer one It replaced. I’m happy.
It’s definitely ring-y when you shine it at a wall but I’ve been using mine pretty consistently over the past week, mostly for close work, and I never noticed it and it certainly didn’t cause any problems. I got the Cofly angle light a while ago and it has bad PWM and whines on low. This two bucks more but a better light (though I really like the bendy neck on the Cofly).
It is bad enough that it was begging for a bit of diffuser material stuck onto the lens but ringy really isn't a problem when you find good diffuser material you actually learn to appreciate the throw .Flood is easy to create .. throw is impossible to create out of a floody light .Just add 2 cents worth of material and the beam is smooth as a babies butt .
If the plastic piece ever breaks you can always buy a silicone holder for a few bucks . < even zebralight sold them cheap.
a better tint with higher cri would be nice but for the price it's a good headlamp option
I have just received mine, headband clip broke after first use…
Is there a cheap headband worth trying ?
I would prefer not to pay 50% of flashlight price for headband…
I was curious about this and with not much love left for this light I stuck a soshine lipo4 in it and it killed the sos, the output was much improved but it won’t shut off, I have to untwist it to shut it off, and it won’t work with an eneloop anymore LOL
Yesterday i couldn’t stand the ringy beam anymore and took it apart. You have to pry behind the led to get the glass and reflector out…its an 8 or 10mm mpcb (cutter sells them) and luckily i had an xm-l on exact the same mpcb here, that fit perfect. during the process i ripped one of the wires to the switch, but i just replaced them with new ones.
now i have a nice floody beam with a good hotspot in the middle…perfect for a headlamp! the driver is still original, the output got maybe 20% better due to higher efficiency, compared to a fenix hl50 on aa, the fenix blasts it on mid. however, i really like that nitefighter now!