I ordered one of these lights and now need recommendations for protected 14500 cells that will work with this flashlight. I read that some cells might fit too tight.
I’ve carried one for almost two month now and i’m very pleased with it so far.
I’m not a big fan of twisties but this one is smooth enough it can be operated one handed - although sometimes it skips modes if you are not twisting off far enough and get some sort of rebounce. I’m a bit sensitive to PWM but didn’t get annoyed with it yet. Must be relatively fast PWM?
It’s small and quite bright for the size with a 14500. I like the beam shape and decent throw too.
GB has it on sale these days… Just ordered a second one. :person_facepalming:
I opened it up for centering the LED and ordered a replacement XPL Hi
My advise for centering the reflector is to glue the reflector with the spacer, its almost impossible to get it centered without that, bcs it has not a typical centering ring
I ordered 3 of em only one got decent centered led
It is glued, but with some heat you can get it opened relatevily easy
Its like some soft acrylic glue
My Nitecore P12 is absolutely resistant to be opened up with more heat and way more force no chance
Couldn’t tell when swinging the light, but finally could see it by pointing the light directly into the camera. Certainly don’t notice it with the naked eye. I tried it in the shower, and didn’t see anything with the naked eye. But taking a video of droplets of water, you’re always going to see a frame/strobe effect. Just like a video of an airplane propeller. I don’t see PWM as a real problem with this light using a 14500.
My Jet-1 stopped working today, tried AA’s (primary alkaline, Enelop Pro) and 14500 but it lights very dimly and that’s all. So in BLF spirit i disassembled the light and everything looked fine so i decided to go further, i striped the driver and now i am trying to find driver that will fit in there so i can piggyback it on the stock contact board.
Is there some decent and widely available driver (China preferred, shipping from USA is expensive) that can be used for this light or i might be in trouble? Every driver up to 15mm should fit in there, led is going to be either the one i have now, the xp-g3 4500k or maybe 219b 5000k.
This is how the stock driver looks
and here is the contact board without any components on it, ready for another driver
Well, I’ve compressed the first 80 minutes or so as there was not much happening there.
According to manufacturer, runtime on high is 1.1 hours, so I dont understand what you mean when you say that runtime is different than real. I basically got about 80 minutes before output started dropping quickly, using a standard capacity nimh cell.
Here it is with uniform time scale, just less resolution…