I went to visit my buddy Rick, and on the way back home I stopped to do some shopping. Seen this one at Sports Authority. It runs on 4 c batteries and it probably weighs close to 2lbs with the 4 c batteries installed. But it’s built like a tank and has a very large head on it. I’m guessing the reflector alone is 75mm. I told Rick it ought to be a thrower. But it only puts out 150 lumens. They wanted $30. Maybe I should of bought it.
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Problem with lights like this is the heatsinks are almost always under-designed, with no thermal path to the outside of the light. So while the reflector optics might be great, theres simply no way to turn up the lux with brute-force drive-current to the LED.
Hopefully I am wrong though!! looks like a well made light. I have always had good luck with my ROV products. their chinese 4.0 NiMH AA cells are very good for the $$, and I still have an old Sportsman extreme 2AA light that works great.
looks like its would a sweet host for the people who do the super mods! Match, could put 6 xm-l’s in it in less then two hours and look factory and show us all how to do it at the same time!!! lol :bigsmile:
Very nice people, got it fast, and I arranged via email to have them strip the clamshell packing and just send me the light without batteries. Cut the shipping in half.
I modded it with an XM-L and a 12-chip 7135 and made it into a good thrower. Tough mod. Cast zinc heatsink holds the reflector.
Don’t try it unless you’re experienced though! Not easy.
Why? $30, 150 lumins, 2lbs, the size of a small car. For $15 you can get a 18650 XM-L like the Fandyfire 2011 and it fits in a pocket and pumps out 400+ lumins at least.
Unless you are buying it to mod, I don’t see one thing that is good about it.
Well that line of thinking is really ok with me. But really if I thought that way about all lights before I bought one and believe me I am a lot like you in what you said, but for less than $15 shipped, I wouldn’t never see the need to buy another light when something came out new because the Jacob A60 will beat it for the money and be a lot brighter in lux.
I played around with this light 2 days ago at my local sports authority. My wife has a shop-kick ap for her iPhone and is slowly racking up store credit there, since we live near 2 of them. Its a really heavy thick plastic shell, really solid feeling. Would make for a nice mod host IMHO. 4C NiMH is a GREAT power source, they can crank out TONS of sag-free current. An XML at 3A with an 8-9x7135 driver is a cake walk for these cells.
What this light really needs is an XR-E led driven about like the Jacob A60 and around 300 lumens or so. With that big of reflector, it would be one bad thrower.
