It won’t be in 6 hours for sure. Give it a few days in lockout. Monitor it in a couple days to see if those red led’s blink indicating low battery. I never looked at mine. Just dropped it in night stand drawer at end of each day. Was reading the bad review on CPF and decided to check mine. Yep, It was as dead as a door nail.
Nitecore is long known for high parasitic drain, but why haven’t they fixed this after so many years?
will test mine when it arrives.
The MH20GT claims to have extremely LOW parasitic drain, lasting 24 months with the beacon off and 12 months with it on. Lockout on this one though is physical, a slight break of the tube to head contact with a 1/4 turn. This was one step forward from Nitecore that prompted me to buy this light and having also just ordered the TM03 when this TIP was announced I didn’t pounce on the little light.
My Caveman and EA4 were horrible though, never keep cells in em anymore and they’ve been relegated to an offsite shelf because of that issue.
I did not know that, but Im new, so I did a quick search and immediately found many threads that report that the lockout mode has higher parasitic drain than unlocked, in other Nitecore products.
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Nitecore EC4 stand by current drain
Nitecore E4A completely drainning my batteries in standby mode. Normal?
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Do all Nitecore lights have parasitic drain ? My EC11 comes to mind. Tailcap lockout seems to work but it’s been stored for the last month @ 4.1 blinks when stored, I just checked it and it is now @ 3.4 blinks.
Have to recharge and test that drain….
I’ve got the NC EA11. But for safety’s sake always unlock tailcap 1/4 turn. Can’t do that with TIP.
thank you for confirming lockout drains the battery within a week or less.
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Epic Fail.
Flashlight “lives without charger as your smatrphone”.
Not random, they are all affected (V1)
V.2
Not difference on the package. but in the V.2 the power indicator not blink in lock out mode.
Are you kidding me, was it blinking the whole time?
If so, no wonder it ran out of juice.
That is/was a serious design flaw.
Not……
of course v.1 not blink continuosly the battery indicator.
I have asked to Nitecore about differences between V1 and V2. They reply this, but I think they mean this: In my V1 when light is locked if I touch one of the switch, the indicator of battery blink one time. I can suposse in the new V.2 this inidcator not blink when touch one swicht in locked mode.
I’ve wanted this light from the second I saw it, but wasn’t going to jump on board until I saw a review. I’m glad I waited!
Have the version 2 models shipped out yet? If so, where can I pick one up?
Have you confirmed that the lockout fixed model can be recognized because it does not blink when the switch is touched in lockout mode?
yes nitecorestore.com is shipping the ones with the lockout drain fixed. Kitrobaskin has confirmed this.
There are 3 models,
220 Lumen w Nichia 90+CRI 3500k,
240 Lumen w Nichia 90+CRI ~4500k, and
360 Lumen ~70 CRI ~6000k.
“Have you confirmed that the lockout fixed model can be recognized because it does not blink when the switch is touched in lockout mode?”
No.
I comment the Nitecore reply to my question.
It can also be confusing thinking Nitecore owns NitecoreStore, since the website has the look and feel of Nitecore’s website. I emailed them and asked if they were owned by Nitecore, and they said were not. Just a US distributor who sells direct to the public.
Neither the first version nor the current version blinks while in lockout mode afaik. Hitting the mode selector button while light is off but not locked out will display battery level, which incidentally is still at >50% on my v2 unit after being locked out for almost 2 weeks now, and some actual use.
Nitecore store apparently has a brilliant marketing strategy because I’ve seen a number of commenters referring to it as the actual manufacturer and saying that they “bought it from Nitecore themself” when referring to the nitecorestore.com preorder.
Edit: corrected the bit about battery indicator
Haha, definitely brilliant marketing. They even say in the About Us, Nitecore Store is a division of Lumen Tanctical LLC And yes, they spelled “tactical” wrong…lol
You are correct! There is confirmation here that the V1 will blink, and V2 does not have Red Blink when touching the buttons while locked.