ArmyTek Barracuda V2

I just tried an amperage reading and got 2.31 at the tail with 2 cells, stuck the single cell tube on and tried again and got a whopping 6.19A!!! It stepped down to 5.33A within about 20 seconds after going completely off then blinking a couple of times.

...Thanks God. I received my Armytek. They even provide a CREE Color Chart on da banana box.

I love Canada brand !

HERE IS MY BEAUTIFUL DOBYMANN XP-L HI (LimiTeD EdiTion R)

Lovely...

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I put it on the lightbox while taking a tail current reading. It only did 1090 lumens while pulling 6.33A at the tail. Messed up stuff right there, at that tail amperage it should be making 1600 lumens easy. Itā€™s over riding that high current, stepping down quickly. If I put the tail cap on and try it, it flashes a high but immediately drops output.

No... You don't understand. Please, check back your tool. I am sure that your tailcap's reader is a poor made in China tester. Trust me... They are Canada'dry professional.
Read the Truth:
"We decided to implement in our products only the best LEDs and cutting-edge electronics made in Japan

and USA to obtain the revolutionary and unprecedented results.
You are able to throw almost all our flashlights from 10th-floor height and submerge them at 50 meters. Why? Weā€™ve just put in such great margin of safety.
10 years no-hassle warranty.
We bust myths.
No more compromises. NO MORE! NOOO MOREE!!!
Forget everything youā€™ve known about flashlights before.
(God Bless China)

Sorry, I use a good Clamp Meter with a 12 Ga Turnigy wire for a loop. Itā€™s accurate.

Perhaps you should slow down on the coffeeā€¦.:wink:

Hmm it doesnt seem right, maybe somehting is shorting the driver out

JungleCoffee sounds like someone that had a very bad time with that brand :slight_smile:

Keep us updated pls, it seems you have a different V2

...I think, they should "slow down" on their bla-bla marketing crap.

Dale? What happen to human kind? How such a huge and ridiculous amount of merchandising bullshit can be just accepted as a standard?

Well. Let's focus on politically correct topic. Led and Flashlight...

SB4 or 5B1? Is the V6 really that better than the V5? Is this possible to fry eggs on 20x 8C3 feed on 300A?

Its Friday night and Iā€™ve had a couple of beers and a glass of wine, but this thread has me beat! Iā€™m not sure whatā€™s going on anymore. Jungle coffee is not helping tbings .

I know, right? ANSI ratings and all that, ArmyTek is SUPPOSED to be a top brand. Iā€™ve wanted a Barracuda for a long time but wouldnā€™t pay full price. Finally, Black Friday gave me the opportunity, and now this. The reflector is just ridiculous, never seen itā€™s like even in a cheap budget light. The machining lines, ugh. And now it wonā€™t function properly on a single cell either. I donā€™t know if I should return it or mod it. But the big attraction is in the driver, itā€™s supposed constant current capability. I guess Iā€™ll talk to the supplier and see what they have to say.

Well, Iā€™m not really into frying eggs on a light, but some of them can de-solder connections so thatā€™s plenty hot to do it!

I like white light, neither blue nor green nor fire orange. Thatā€™s just me. Show me that emitter and Iā€™ll stock up on emā€¦

OH yeah... 99% transparency, so you can spot that awesome best in the World finish

33 1ā„3 rpm microgroove vinyl record Reflector style... Throwing crap...

Oh... I guess it's some limited edition vintage stuff...

Well, i am looking at the one that left here and its reflector is good( took pics, the best i could)

It seems that either that torch has several levels of quality or just you both are quite unluckyā€¦or maybe yours are the US edition :stuck_out_tongue: ā€¦since you are close to Canada( its birthplace) its suppoced for you to be kinda patient for its disatvanragesā€¦JK ofc :wink:

Sorry, but your pictures show some low quality surface finish.

As you can notice all around the net, too many people get low quality reflectors (and other issues) from Armytek.

Damn. Look at Fenix product (just 1 example)? A cheap E20 can accept within 5mn a new emitter mod, without any donuts hole and 33 vinyle's style beam.

Well, Fenix, and many others DO NOT package themselves as some HiluxWesternCountry owned manufacturers. Hope you get that point.

I have nothing against Chinese manufacturers. I do not appreciate bullshit bla-bla-figures.

It should not be more than 8% of variations on such range of product.

72,000 Candelas... Jaa ja... not even 50k... 540m OMG! Revolution in AT 40mm head manufacturing process lol 400m with good lens. Thanks

Enough of such bullshit marketing/packaging.

Of course, some may not be agree with my point of view about business... They may prefer bring some, ortografk issue...

I just measured it:dual cells, 92 000 cds( dedoming doubles those)
Yeah i took that photoes with my S6, its a phone not a camera so they aint good

Olight Triton got like 90 000 as log as i can remember

For me its main issues is removing the reflector, why the hell it was glued to the mcpcb? helping the cooling prolly?

About your V2sā€¦well, it seems they have issues, maybe a bad batch - if i were you i would return those, especialy if the reflector is that bad

Well Iā€™m glad you guys got armytek out of my system.

Have you thought of PMing them and asking them to comment on this thread?

...Distributors are getting fed-up to deal with all those issues from AT. Guess what? They rather stock Olight than the so-called Best Chinacanada Flashlight in the World.

When is the last time GoingG. did review their products, 1 year? 2 years years ago?.. Yes, that's correct, they get definitely a better deal with Olight, Fenix or EagleTac. People review good products... Not fancy unreliable stuff.

They adopt a ridiculous cost-saving strategy, distributors start to ban them. Hey? Expensive moreover!

If they were clean, they would not glue so carefully their products (especially last v)

Just make a test:

Email them about ANY basic information regarding their products, they will answer you some ridiculous salesmen bla-bla. They cannot even speak English correctly (and yup! I know what I am talking about, at least I don't pretend to be British or American lol)

Check their website:

WHAT is that???

We are proud to work for ????

REALLY?


Well> Check this out:


I proudly work for the

(3 months doing coffee and photocopy lol)

Tomorrow, I use the logo on my website and start to sell guess?


You know m8, thats how the world is goind nowadays, there is no more IBM or GMC quality ( from 80`s)
Audi you say? Well, didnt Audi( VAG group) cheated their customers lately? tens of millions of autos with a manipulated software

You know, 6 months ago i neeed a profi boroscope for my work( to look after gears in a wind generator) so we took a professional Olimpus and just as an emergency option a 160$ ALi chinese boroscope : Olimpus costed 3800$ā€¦ after 3 months of casual usage its camera diode stopped( by casual i mean 2-3 times weekly, for an hour or so)ā€¦.then after 4 moths its joystick failedā€¦ā€¦yet, chinese one works perfectly

And Boschā€¦.since i work for a construction company for the last 16 years i know what Bosch ā€œqualityā€ means

So lets dont talk about quality, quality is quite a relative term nowadays

what do you mean by that? Brand means brand (image/symbol/mark) Quality is quality (product). Don't mix everything.

Quality- definition:

the standard of something as measured against other things of a similar kind; the degree of excellence of something.


Let me explain you what it is all about:

Good products from honest and professional people against greedy salesmen crap (talking about nowadays business...)

You are right regarding branded goods. Things have drastically changed since last past 30 years. What used to be symbols of Quality (read>brands) have become money making machine without high quality left (empty)

WHY? PROFIT MARGIN! MORE! ALWAYS MORE,,,thus less and less quality, until we have to eat shit.

But we are already in it:

Don't ask me to accept and agree with bad quality excuses and bullshit packaging in the name of nowadays floating values...

Send a mail to ArmyTek operator... you will understand what means poor nowadays quality...

Bosch has a wide spectrum of quality most is crap. IMO household appliances are very poor but the Diesel pump on my Audi is excellent.

I think what jungle coffee is saying is that they pretend their lights are ā€˜Canadianā€™ made and of the highest quality, but both are questionable, especially reading this thread.

I sent that pic to the supplier and he double checked his stock. The stock he has in hand looks like that, all of them. Itā€™s the entire run apparently, so it wouldnā€™t do me any good to return it.

The build quality and anodization is second to none on this light. The AR coated lens, again, superb. Perhaps they had outsourced the reflector and got a bad batch, didnā€™t catch it? Perhaps an engineer decided this surface finish would be good? I donā€™t know, but Iā€™ll change it myself and know I have it working the best it can be made to work. My reasoning is, if they couldnā€™t get it right the first time, why should I wait for them to try getting it right a second time?

I got a Predator from a friend on the cheap, love it. So I found this Barracuda V2 with XP-L emitter on a Black Friday sale and finally got one. A lawyer once told me, ā€œSometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you!ā€