just got back from my local home depot (batavia, ny) and bought 2 lights.
defiant 3c cell beater stick light with a xml. 19$
crap cell phone pic.
light has a plastic lens, GITD o ring, plastic smo reflector, 20mm mcpcb star with an xml attached to a fairly large aluminum pill screwed into its own heat sink section. on the other end of the star is the driver which i havent removed nor have a measured it. either 17mm or 20 and pressed into the aluminum possibly with some adhesive.
then there is a switch section. run of the mill switch that normally is in the tail caps of other lights only its rigged in there with some plastic spacer slide together blocks. easy to take apart.
then there is a battery tube and tail tube.
its a cool white but not as blue as some ive seen and i prefer it to the maglite pro that i got today too.
puts out a decent punch and throw and i couldnt detect PWM at all.
not a bad light.
the maglite mini pro isnt too bad either. 22$ they dont have the pro plus or whatever the one is with more features but this one makes decent light and the beam wasnt as full of artifacts as some maglites ive had.
all in all decent lights for retail that is.
i may just leave them both alone and use them for what they are. i will probably have a peak at the defiants driver. it may be DD, i dunno.
ill try to get to taking it apart tomorrow and seeing whats up with some pics.
Brian