They glue the driver onto a shelf, even gaining access through the switch hole it takes a couple 3 or 4 pretty good blows on a small screwdriver to bust it loose.
I glued it back in, potted the piggybacked 15mm FET in the process so it’s really glued in… not sure why I did that so quickly, I meant to stack a second small FET. Oh well, too late now!
Dale the PT16 V3 holds a 18350. If the charger is removed does it have the clearance for an 18490 or 18500? I know yours is the version 1 16340. I’m just curious about the length. So many chargers around the house 18500 over 18350 make more sense for me.
LightRider, it should. I’ve had the PT10, 14 and 16 and they were all interchangeable. So say if you had bought the PT14 with 14500 cell and then buy this tube from illumination Gear then you’d be able to use the one head with either cell type, actually 3 cell types as the 16340 still works in the 18350 tube.
I REALLY want one of the MecArmy Limited Edition lights, but they’re insanely expensive, $1700 I think. The details are exquisitely rendered, amazing.
FWIW, my Aunt confiscated the PT14 and my wife took the PT10. sigh.
Have you seen their limited edition’s? They look like Bamboo shoots, with the cracks and holes and knuckles where roots were coming out, darkened in the cracks and the knuckles are gold plated, the entire thing is done in Titanium. The detail work is incredible.
Takemitu = Take me too… it’s calling me, see?
Seems like there were only 10 made of each one, worldwide. So I’ll never see one, as if I had that kind of money anyway right?
Ok, so by now y’all KNOW I really like the PT16, right? So I’m gonna get me a PT60 for sure, and if it makes 9600 lumens with XP-G2 emitters what will it do with XP-L W2 1D’s?
Shoulda left well enough alone, just re-discovered the PT-16 in brass. OMG! Aluminum reflector! Geesh, why is it priced so high? Me want me want! lol (incorrigible I know.)
I got the 18350 battery tube in today from Illumination Gear, worked just fine although the charger portion was a bit different. Didn’t really matter as it came out anyway. I took the new tube and head out to the shop and bored the top of the battery tube where the charger sat so an 18500 could slide through all the way, then I made a couple of brass rings that would fit around the cell and act as spacers top and bottom, 1.2mm in the head and 2.4mm in the tail cap. So now it’s like a twisty, the tail cap screws down onto the cell and if it weren’t bottoming out on the brass spacer it’d crush the cell. No springs either end, direct contact.
So now it does a whopping 3041.7 lumens on the 4 XP-L W2 1D emitters. Crazy little dynamo it is, lights up a room bouncing it off the ceiling!
That is a lot of lumens for a 2x 26650 light. Wow, when you stop and think about it! I still haven’t cracked my pt14 open yet. It’s still in the plans though.
Not sure why but that reflectored version really really interests me. Probably copper or brass, as much as I like Ti I wish they’d kept the same design. So the copper one, ready to handle whatever I throw at it, is probably where I’d go if monies were there for it.
I have mine running on a 18500 by using a pair of brass rings, one on each end, to act as ground spacers. This let’s it do some crazy lumens which is just giggly insane from such a small light.
Is that an optical illusion or does the Ti PT18 have a larger dia head? Looks pretty sweet, for sure, perhaps such a light would be best left in stock trim and just enjoyed for it’s sheer elegance…