That's a great deal on one of my personal favorite hosts. I got one last time they were on sale. The driver is garbage if you don't mind swapping the driver this is a great deal. Mine pulled around 3 amps on high not 1.4 amps like the description says.
I don't like this driver because it's unregulated on high so an IMR battery will toast the emitter, it has horrible pwn on low and I can't stand strobe unless it's blinding nasty strobe this is a slow strobe which is absolutely useless in my opinion.
I bought 10 or 11 of the flashlights (round about 6 black and 4 silver). All have XM-L. The pictures shows also a XM-L. Most of my flashlights have a 3 mode (high, low, strobe, will pulls 2,8-2,9A at the tailcap) the last 2-3 have 5 mode and pulls only 2A.
I buy 3 more - with a coupon I save $5 and get a price of ~$13 - this is a great price. Then I will built in the 3A kaidomain driver with the stars :)
Just what I need to use up my 500 Dino points, first order with DD so hopefully all will go well. Mind you for <$10 for a WF-504B it could come with a p4 and I would still be doing well. :bigsmile:
This is the light I had to open a dispute over. Ordered a silver one on Jan 1st, still waiting..
EDIT:
It (or a replacement) has arrived since this post 2 months after ordering. Excellent VFM, no visible PWM. Price now £12.60 - ish. Genuine bargain IMO if you can stand the waiting and uncertainty.
I am a newbie, and a bike rider. Just learning about flashlights because I have started putting them on my bikes. I commute in HEAVY traffic.. I merge into traffic in the wee dark hours of the morning, and the dark hours of the evening doing rush hour. When I merge out, I need to be seen. The brighter my lights, the more I am seen. Also, since I have been running, IMO powerful flashlights, I get WAY MORE RESPECT, cars give me way, they stop, and I am noticed. Therefore I am safer..
Even if "irritating" was correct, which I don't think it is, it doesn't hold a candle to a "biker's safety"..
Are you referring to the same thing? It sounds like Gorann is specifically referring the strobe mode. I use a bright light with my bike but I keep it on constant and I agree with Gorann that the strobe on most of the torches is way too fast to be of use. I think I will go nuts, even if not car driver. I don't know about the slow strobe, perhaps it's slow enough to be okay but I'm legally required to have a non flashing front facing light while cycling at night in NZ and so far I only use one front light. (In any case, I don't tend to cycle in heavy traffic but sometimes the roads are fairly dark as I'm cycling in suburban environments so I do need the constant light for illumination.) Besides that, I'm not actually convinced an extremely bright strobing/flashing front facing light is necessary, but if you find it works well for you then that's up to you.
I recently encountered someone with a high powered light, in strobe mode. It was disorienting having that light coming towards me on the 2-lane road. I can see how it could easily cause an accident, especially on a curve or in heavy traffic.
Personally I think a good, well aimed headlight, bright red taillight and lots of reflectors/reflective clothing is adequate if you must share the road with cars at night.
I ride a motorcycle and try to avoid riding at night. It's dangerous enough during the day, I elect not to add to that danger level.
