I’ve taken a few looks at the battery from different sources. It’s single contacts on each end. The top of the battery appears to have a plastic reverse polarity shield. In this video you can see the tail cap has a long tail spring IMALENT MS03 Open box review - YouTube Hopefully this will allow other standard length batteries to fit.
texas shooter said: “...it’s single contacts at each end. ...”
That’s good news, thanks for noting that and reporting that. That means that normal unprotected batteries with solder blob or a spring soldered onto the anode will probably work.
I believe no battery modification will be needed. With the positive ends shield being so deep. The lights anode contact is going to have to extend out some.
A 40T does not work due to its length (or lack off actually)
A normal cell will work but it needs a magnet or so, since you will need a giant blob of solder, since the unprotected cell rattles in the tube.
Nice light, does not look like 13k lumens, floods more than a KR4, gets hot quick.
The screen printing is sloppy, the threads are very thin.
Thank you for your valuable pics and observations. I’m going to ask my favorite modder to provide me with a few soldered spring top unprotected 40T cells. I hope to get mine soon. Thanks again!
10Klm or the advertised 13Klm, it does not matter, if there are more lumens more plummeting. Same host but more amount of dissipated heat produced by the LEDs.
But then again, someone might say they want to use only the 5000lm function, the 10k is not compulsory which of course is just fine. Problem is if something has the same host and only claims 5000lm and might handle that just fine no one gets excited as much as Utopian claims excite.
Well worded Hikelite.
Will do some lumen measurements soon, if it didn’t had the dreadful proprietary cell, now i constantly need to charge it after doing a small test
It is actually quite convenient and standardized, saves a ton of trouble if a charging function is in such high demand.
The conflict comes at the moment when the manufacturer has fundamental issues understanding how to deliver what it wants or it could be that it is their deliberate choice to claim something then make it in such way it can’t deliver.
You need a very long spring to try that. Not recommended though.
T.b.h. a KR4 with xpl hi is probably a better choice, since the output plummets immediately.
it looks like the bezel should come off, it’s seems it’s screwed into the head, it is slightly protruding.
Get a rubber or other flat grippy surface and try to open it holding it down firmly while turning it