Awesome review, but thanks to you I’m contemplating breaking my new years resolution for 2017, which was to not buy anymore flashlights! lol And to think I almost made it a month! lol
This light has unreal performance, considering its size! 900+ lumens for well over 2 hours of perfect regulation! The only change I would have made is the UI. I think one click=low, two click = medium, three clicks = high, hold for turbo, makes more sense then what they went with, but other than that this light looks great!
Quick question, I have a pair of the 69.5mm protected keeppowers on the way, do you think they’ll fit in this light? They aren’t button top, but they aren’t flat top either. The entire top protrudes slightly.
Protected cells works, since there is no spring on the tail or driver the DQG lights can accept all sorts of cells length. As D10ten said the protection could be a problem when activating turbo with a partially discharged cell, it draws almost 7A on a fresh cell, and even more when the voltage drops.
Well shit, so much for using them then! I am referring to the 2015 keeppowers though. They work perfectly in the Convoy L6, which is brighter than this light, although I guess there is two of them (not sure if that makes a difference, regarding tripping the protection)
The L6 is running 2 series at 8.4V to supply power to a Buck driver where voltage is reduced to a 6V emitter.
The DQG Tiny is a 7 series emitter light that uses a Boost driver to amplify the 4.2V cell to match some 21V needed by the emitters, as such the Boost circuit pulls considerably more amps from the single cell.
I plan on trying it out with Basen, Efest, Powerizer LiNiMnCo, King Kong Gold, and (ran smack out of ideas, what’s the latest and greatest 26650 y’all?)
I had no electrical problems using this cell (5200 mAh version). But due to the length of the cell the tailcap makes only about one and a half turns when screwing down. It’s solid nevertheless.
Got my DQG a couple days ago and I’m impressed. This is my first 26650 light. The output and size are quite nice and it feels great in the hand. I don’t think I’ll EDC it though…. 26650 cells are just too heavy for my pockets.
For modding, I suppose output could be significantly increased by replacing the XPG2s with XPL HIs. I don’t think I’ll bother though as the light is great as-is.
Really don’t understand the desire for charging a Li-ion cell inside the light, worst possible way to do it, can’t monitor temperature and you’re trusting a very very cheap charging system to get it right. I’d much rather use the inexpensive XTar Rocket charger at 2A so it doesn’t take so long on the big cells. There are places that convenience is an inconvenience, using a cheap built in charger could be one of those places. Seems dangerous to me.