Hello George thank you for coming to BLF,
I was trying to explain driver retainer to Banggood and finally suggested maybe you could come meet us here at BLF and you came I am very happy to meet you and I do love all your products,
I am the guy who dedome all six outer LEDs when I removed the bezel… ha ha, sent picture to Banggood now tint is very yellow 3000K, maybe they send picture to you?
I got light to hot and forgot to press down on the optic when I turned the bezel and I removed all domes from outer LEDs, I can’t do that good a job removing LED dome when I try to deliberate.
Banggood try to tell you that I needed a new driver and then they told me that you said I needed a new driver and the reason driver and retainer feel out was because I admit to Banggood that I removed the bezel… ha ha ha
I had to tell Banggood what it says on your product box, about NO disassemble or no warranty…
They didn’t know and I told them I disassembled your light so I know I have to warranty and was only trying to explain the problem with retainer and driver falling out but words in English to Chinese get confused. ha
No apologies needed for me, I am very happy with product George and it is easy to fix but thought you would want to know and told that to Banggood.
I have many of your lights and as you see in pictures 2 of the 26650,
I think I have all your lights, and I do mostly understand the complications for you in manufacturing and machinist tolerances etc…
I understand how the glue got on the end cap, easy to make that mistake when you have so many tubes and end caps and glue ha ha ha,
I thought it was funny or strange at least strange thing to see, but no problem I just fix it and used silicone around the retainer lightly after perfect alignment with switch.
So now I understand difference in tolerance from 18650 and 26650 I did not understand difference, smart, that’s why you are able to stay in business, good business from smart man…!!
Yes a longer nub on switch towards rubber boot or a little stiffer longer nub in rubber boot… Don’t know which is easier for you or cost but it would be a big help when you alignment of the switch, very difficult to get perfect alignment of the switch when assembling lights, and when doing alignment of so many at one time like you do at manufacturing.
Thank you for coming George and I look forward already to your next light.
You are the best George… and thank you again.
thanks for your post, it´s always nice to be able to speak to the real creators of flashlights. I was just about to pull the trigger on a DQG Tiny 26650 V3.0 but the only thing that keeps me from getting one is the LED and tint selection… It seems from all the reports that the two xp-g2 tints you offer in your light are either very cold or very warm… right now there is no real neutral neither a hi cri version vailable. I´m a huge fan of the 4500-5000 K nichia 219b/c LED tints and so are many users in this forum I learned… any chance to have a new revision with Hi CRI neutral white LEDs inside? I´d be willing to sacrifice a few lumens for a nice tint and hi cri…
crz, you have to keep in mind that only a small percentage of those that purchase a flashlight have the ability to successfully mod it. Many that have tried on this light have damaged emitters, switches, driver… this is a complex and tight build, it’s not for the beginner class for sure.
Shining the lights on a white wall inside your house is one thing, but taking them outdoors is another. The differences become less. IMO, both are excellent very usable lights
Exactly! In real use those tints are very much acceptable! White wall hunting is not a very good indicator of a flashlight’s potential, not sure where it got it’s popularity.
I like the tint on the NW. I use it every evening in the backyard. Checking on my tortoises, terrapins and turtles and keeping snails out of the torts garden of food.
No offense but may I ask if those are mobile phone or compact digital camera shots taken in automatic mode? If so, the camera/phone tried to adjust the white balance automatically, making those shots look almost identical and unusable for tint comparisons. It´s not easy even with a DSLR and using RAW mode to get proper representative images of LED flashlight color tints.
Besides that, I´m definitely not a white wall hunter. I use my lights indoors and outdoors and simply enjoy hi CRI neutral tints to get accurate colors from the subjects I illuminate.
The cardboard box of the Tiny 26650 III has a “hi cri” option written on it… but no hio cri version exists yet. So I was just taking the oportunity to ask George if a hi cri version is planned.
Point taken. Guess I’m a bit of a flashaholic now. Can’t look at a flashlight with out thinking, What could I do with this ?
In the process of doing a MT-G2 2D maglite mod.
I’ve damaged a few things myself.
Hi George, will these drivers be available for purchase? I’ve bought 3 of these and the last one I received worked for 30 sec. and the driver quit working…smell of burnt electronics. Sorry if this has been talked about already peeps. I had limited time this morning and want to get this puppy running again.
Thanks DB for pointing me to this thread! Are you in Austin?
Trying to figure out how that driver could have gone magic smoke on ya, seems likely you had a short somehow but George took precautions to prevent that. Which makes me wonder if something got jarred loose in shipment…
Hi George.
It is off topic but I can not resist to suggest idea for future flashlight. Zebra
18650 like titanium headlamp lighter and smaller than h600.
May be sound like a joke but how old are you?, some times the noise depends a lot of the age, I have the same flash light and I don’t heard any sound but I have 40 years old.
I will ask to my wife if she hear some noise she has better hearing than me.
My 9 yr old has heard bugs squealing where of course I got nothing. Young females tend to hear better than anyone, but young mother’s are scary with what they can hear even from a distance and through walls!
Once you’ve got some age on you, as a male, and after some years with intense audiology in a car and/or shooting handguns, there’s ALWAYS enough whine going on to cover a mere flashlight driver complaining. But not, sadly, enough to cover a wife going on and on (used as an example only, for clarification. )
Today is an anniversary date, 34 years ago today I married the wrong person.
I use my nw quite often and I don’t hear any noises.
I just had my wife take a listen, she hears nothing either.
But I have 30 years combined (3M,P&G) in loud manufacturing and I didnt always wear hearing protection :person_facepalming:
You can also use a sound editor to generate tones to pinpoint your upper hearing limit. I recommend Audacity—it’s free. Use the “Generate Tone” menu option to create a clip of a specific frequency.
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