Olight S15R AA/14500 XM-L2 rechargeable flashlight review

Mine arrived a couple of days ago and I love it. It is a great general duty light or back up light. I turns up anyt will be my EDC for a while (until my Olight S1 turns up anyway). I managed to snap my lanyard mind you when I was trying to pull it through the end cap hole via a bit of bent wire so I won’t try that method again! I have ordered another S15R as I think these will make a great Christmas present for not flashoholics.

Nice review. Got mine a week or so ago and I would say your review is spot on. I have noticed that it's a bit picky about setting the light on the charger (actually, the charger jumps up to it due to magnetic pull). For some reason, it doesn't seem to get a good electrical connection each time. I haven't tried to figure out what is wrong yet.

Does the indicator light on the charging base do anything when the light is fully charged?

EDIT: Fixed a bunch of typos above. I really need to proof read before posting.

Thanks!

Lits up green.

Base on mine is stable, no contact issues when placing light on, I always make sure that its placed correctly which is rather easy with its magnet - its either on or not, there is no middle position on mine ;)!

My order with red filter, extension tube and Sanyo 14500 has arrived to my country, will probably be delivered next week so will update review with some more pictures and observations then :)!

BTW, charged the light today again with its charger, voltage when fully charged at the battery was 4.25V with my UNI-T meter and 4.24V with cheap LCD voltmeter.
I thought that protection cirquit wont allow to charge that high? Or is it that both of my metering units have to calibrated?

This is the first review I have seen for the S15R so it was well worthwhile.I ordered mine 2 weeks ago , so still waiting.

perhaps a sliver to add to your review…

unfor I dropped it last night while walking the dog, it fell 2’ onto the sidewalk. To my surprise
the tail got dinged enough to wear off a chunk of the black anodizing.

oh well, it’s def a keeper now, can’t give it away like that :slight_smile:

Looks like it benefited you :D!

I really dont believe all the hype that people mention about annodizing - it will scratch off, it will break off when dropped and so on, not sure why people keep on cultivating this myth of “indestructible” anno :D!
As soon as you start using new light, it will get wear and tear pretty quickly, unless you baby them with fibre gloves and store in peanut foam boxes.

Yes, it is more wear resistant than simple paint, but its not bulletproof and its certainly not drop proof either! Its not some plastic-rubber combo composite paint that will not break when misshaped.

My 0.02$

received mine today. Beautiful light/package. Amazing deal for some $22. Sure it ain’t the brightest. Would make great gifts, include a Ni-MH cell for them so no worries.

Hoo-yah!

Nice little review. I am also waiting for mine to arrive from that same special price at GB.

I also purchased SR15 as gift for my brother in law.
Flashlight + battery + charger for that price is excellent.

I got ripped off! ($24. :laughing:

Anyways. Great review. I like mine. Like it a lot more after putting a Nichia 219B and 45 degree optic in there. Nice fat hot spot and super clean tint. The levels are a bit lower too which I prefer.

it will be a nicer light than the sk68's people are fond of gifting ..

I'm still waiting on mine ....Why am i always waiting when everyone else has already received their lights ?

Oh yeah ..cuz it took days of wrestling with whether or not to buy these .

the battery sells for $5 ...and the chargers on ebay are $13.

So you have to ask yourself ... is this light worth $5 ?

thats only $2 more than a sk68 .

A comparable light that sold really well was the SC01 Solarstorm for $12.95

for me the tough decision was .. how many to buy ?

Any way you look at it ..it's a deal

$3 battery / $10 charger = a $10 light .

$2 battery / $7 charger -> $14 light

5year waranty / 4 nice modes/moon mode/rechargable/extension option /. beats the life out of any solarstorm

if i didn't have a bazzillion lights already i'd buy a bunch of these .

My guess is people will be a little shocked how small these lights are . it almost looks like Olight knows this and tries to make the light look even bigger in the way they package the light .

looking forward to getting this one .

Does the charger have the problems people are complaining about on CPF? About the blinking red light and it not charging the light properly

Mine blinks only when theres either not enough current(?) coming from USB port or when USB port automatically shuts off(Xiaomi power bank) when no light is present when charging pad is being connected to power source.

Can you post link to CPF discussion?

Starts from there more or less.

Apparently the chargers that come with the label “rev 2” are ok

Can you check yours please, veer?

Thanks

Checked - chargers box had no Rev2 sticker on it, charger itself comes with white print on it, so it appears to be the new, revised charging pad.

But posts at CPF indicate that back then people had charging pads sent with Rev2 sticker and visually old pad version and working fine, it was a year ago, so Im not sure, didnt read further than end of the first page you sent.

(Ok, thats strange, I thought I just posted a reply and was about to edit it, but my post isnt visible :D?!)

confused here. My lettering is white but that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s ok? No Rev 2 anywhere on mine or the box.

Maybe someone in the know can straighten this out for us please…. thanks.

i got mine a couple of days ago as well, and i don’t think i will give mine away to my brother as i first thought :bigsmile:
might get another one, or maybe get him something bigger with more output and better runtime (18650 flashlight then…)

why would you get a flashlight with included li-ion battery + li-ion charger, if you don’t want to use them? i don’t think the charger will charge nimh-batteries.

The trick is to drop it from 2’ onto concrete, you’ll damage it cosmetically but it’ll work fine, then you can
keep it guilt free and give him something else instead :-).

Little bit more to add after using this light for a while - I would like medium mode, which Olight claims to be around 70 lumens with 4 hour runtime to be slightly lower, thus gaining longer runtimes without too visible output difference. Selfbuilts review even states that his review sample has 115 lumen output on medium.

When walking on a trail with some ambient light around low mode is too low while medium is too bright.