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.