Some notices to DQG Tiny 26650 V3.0 (post by designer and producer: GEORGE)

Sorry, did I hear him right ? Don’t disassemble ?
Yeah right……

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

DQG 26650 Tiny 3 Cool White

DQG 26650 Tiny 3 Neutral White

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.

Stick a cell in it and enjoy it!

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.

Yea, I’m diggin this light.

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.

K.

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?

YW. And nope, Austin’s too weird for me. :wink:

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.

Hi George, I received my beautiful grey Tiny 26650 V3.0 today. This is my first DQG light and I am very pleased. :+1:

The finish is excellent, and the light is very comfortable to hold. I like the UI and the warmish neutral tint.

I have a question. Is it normal for the light to make noise in turbo mode? I understand this could be “inductor whine.”

Sometimes it is a high-pitched ring, and sometimes it is a hiss, like an air leak.

I can hear it at a distance of one meter when the room is quiet.

I finally have a quote for a signature, gracias

Lol, my pleasure Ozy!

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.

Is that about Dale? Great quote too! :party:

(edit: no, it was about gosh, never mind :stuck_out_tongue: )

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. :wink: )

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:

I can often hear things my friends of the same age cannot. Then again, I’m the first in the group to reach for hearing protection! :slight_smile:

I can hear frequencies up to about 15kHz. I’d estimate that the whine from my DQG is about 12kHz.

For those interested, here are a few online hearing tests:

This page has individual files of different frequencies for a quick high-frequency hearing check.

This page has a sweep from 22kHz to 8kHz, with a voiceover announcing the frequencies.

This page has a more detailed hearing test. You’ll need a quiet room and a pair of headphones.

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.

One of mine did this too. Tightened the tail cap a bit more and the squeal/hiss went away.

I usually file or sand off the end of the battery tube to re-gain clean bare aluminum so that when assembled the ground is secure. :wink:

I also rarely use thread lube. Never on the tube to head contact and only sparingly on the o-ring. Try to keep the o-ring lube off the tailcap threads. I don’t like the dirty lube getting between my ground connection.