yeh, I was hoping for a well made light with good hardware not a cheap copy. Too bad.
I don’t like the big passive drain problem of the EC4. I have one but have to keep a cutdown tailcap plastic button cover over the plus end of one cell, since there aren’t enough threads on the tailcap for a physical lockout.
Hoped for a decent long life from 2x parallel, figuring I’d replace the driver (don’t like hi-lo-strobe) (if there’s a replacement driver that will work with the switch)
Too bad.
Here is a thread somewhere on forum which shows EC4 internals. Driver is same shape as 2-cell contact board, swich board is the separate part.
Anyway youll never find buck driver with electronic switch support and real thermal regulation with external thermistor for less than $10.
Passive drain? Host better fits long cells, just use protected ones and dont worry.
My experience differs. The light I got drew down the voltage of good quality new protected cells significantly within a few days.
That means I have to block the circuit or remove the cells until I need the light.
I realize this doesn’t worry everyone.
But when I want to grab a flashlight in a hurry after the earthquake stops, it won’t be this one.
Pictures on taobao doesn’t load until you scroll the page down to where it is, I guess they use some sort of code to prevent the image from being retrieved by a search engine in order to save bandwidth.
Sorry I didn’t go through all the comments, and I am kinda out of flashlight world for quite some times but these lights appear to be quite interesting. Do you mind to include the link(s) to each light in the OP?
That Mikoze MKZ-L730 seems interesting. Any link for that one? Every google search I tried keeps coming up with Lincoln Car references (american auto manufacturer).
What I’d be really excited for is more EDC-sized (no more than 1”/25mm diameter), mod-friendly e-switch hosts. Something with the switch on a separate board that could take the popular 17mm driver designs would be ideal. Not only do e-switches offer more flexible UI options, a mechanical switch is just one more thing to melt when building a crazy FET triple.