I have never owned a Recoil Light. Figured I should get one cheap and close to home, so I got this one off ebay from a seller in NYC.
It's a No-Name brand, but I just wanted to take one apart and see how it worked. It takes a single 18650. It's 143MM OAL, 40mm Diameter at the head. It has a glass lens and an XR-E led. I got 1 amp on high and 0.15 amp on low.
The led is an XR-E. It throws a square die pattern, but as you can see in a close up shot, the support for the led does show up in the beam. The farther out you get, the less it can be seen. I will do a couple of beam shots tonight, when it gets dark.
Tear down:
The OD of this?? Pill/holder/assembly? is 35mm.
The length is also 35mm.
The 17mm driver has three modes H/L/Strobe and mode memory
The assembly consists of an aluminum reflector that is plated and a bottom plate that holds the reflector in and holds the driver. The led fits on a brass round that fits in the arm to hold the led. That arm and outer wall is all one piece cast aluminum.
You can see the brass round is soldered to the led and it fits in the aluminum holder, but it is spaced out, so that the wires do not touch the aluminum.
That's it for the tear down. Why couldn't it be made so the die is not focused, so that there is no square die? It would give a larger spot, but I hate that square die crap. Maybe I will try replacing the led with a Nichia 219, which would give a more rounded die image. Either that or an MT-G2 Oh, don't even think like that, Noooooooooo.