This light was mentioned by someone a month or two ago and I can’t find the mention. Anyhow, I decided to take a chance and see what this light was like.
It came with a so-called 26650 cell. It is a crappy cell, quite deserving of the brown wrapper. I mentioned the cell over here.
I have not torn into the light yet. First impression is that the machining and anodizing is good, no glaring faults. The threads are the to be expected triangle shape and are not anodized. The threads and o-rings were lubed. The bezel and lens came apart okay, no glue used. The bezel unscrews off the front, there is a body tube that unscrews from the head and there is a tailcap that unscrews. Side switch only. The sliding zoom head fits quite well and operates in-out smoothly. There is some lube that may help the smoothness and may help hide any looseness. We’ll see after I take it apart. The driver board is retained with a threaded aluminum ring as is the mcpcb at the front end.
At first I thought it was a single mode, on-off only light. I can’t read the Chinese user guide that came with it. However, I discovered it ramps. If the side switch button is held down the light turns on in high and then ramps down. Once at the lowest setting it blinks twice. If the switch button is kept held down the light will then ramp up to high and blink twice again. That will continue repeatedly as long as the switch is held down. If turned off the light comes back on in high. A quick double click goes to strobe mode.
Later today I’ll take a high and a low lumens measurement and post that for the curious. I’ll also take some close up photos of the light parts.
FYI, I bought it here. . At the time the price was 59 yuan (US$8.50 plus shipping for a total of US$17.
