House 100m Haikelight Trekker (stock XHP50.2 CW Sanyo GA cells)
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House 25m Haikelight Trekker (stock XHP50.2 CW Sanyo GA cells)
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Since it is a hot light I will not wait till I have pics and such and just start a Work In Progress
Well some have maybe read that I had to pay ~$27 in taxes, fees and administration before I could even receive the parcel. HaiKelite had written $25 on it. This is like $0.50 too uch for it to be received without paying this.
I think the normal price is somewhere in the $40-$50 range making is a gamble for people living in coutries with a hungry taxman how good of price this is, for EU one must expect
$40 is treated like €40
PLUS
€12 taxes VAT and fees
€12.50 administration
€2.50 VAT on administration
€27$30
making the HaiKelite MT01 XHP50 V2 a $70 light, but I hope they will write “value $20” but I asked this strongly and it was not done so EU citizens must be advised here.
So I wanted to get this out of the way.
Expect pics and beamshots to follow.
The HaiKelite MT01 XHP50 V2 comes in a plastic case with padding, a nice way of keeping the light and a big plus over the standard boxes.
Finish is nice, slightly grey color, even the not knurled parts feel grippy without any agressiv feeling places.
The stainless steel bezel and AR coated glass do a good job protecting the OP reflector with XHP50.2 LED nicely centered.
The electronic switch works tight.
click to turn on , click to turn off
click and hold to change modes, from low to high at highest it starts at low again.
There was no manual.
So I don’t know if there is a hidden moon, I could not find it, but the normal low is not too bright for doing things close by, yet it is too bright for using it in the night waking up though, trust me on this
I don’t know if there is a shortcut to highest mode, I could not find it, but there are not a lot of modes, so it is easy to get to highest mode.
I tried several click sequences and discovered the hidden blinkies, but no shortcuts to moon or highest mode, so I assume they are not there.
I LOVE this format, a small soda can light just loving the parallel cel setup and nice feeling in the hand.
The HaiKelite MT01 XHP50 V2 worsk with maximum of 3 cells.
So in hand feel it feels like the 4xAA lights like Thorfire TK4A, in output if does produce much more.
Long fat Panasonic protected cells fit, smaller cells fit nicely too.
The driver looks nicely made, a high brass ring for cell + to slide over, my GAs without button with slightly protruding + side work like a charm.
A real negative I encoutered was the light is creates.
It has some nice flood for sure, but a stock SRK clone has more flood.
Tt has some nice throw, though a sotk C8 with XML2 out throws it by far.
So comparing it to similar hand-feel light TK4A in CW yes we have a winner, the HaiKelite MT01 XHP50 V2 out-floods and out-throws the TK4A. At the cost of a lot more heat and a higher price but it will work longer for the higher capacity 18650s
(Sorry for doing a typical Dutch thing of sticking words behind each other, it is not the English way but helps in making points)
A major beef I have with th HaiKelite MT01 XHP50 V2 is with the tint.
The hotspot is cool white but the edges are greenish
I hoped this was a wall hunting thing but outside on all things I shined this is easy to see.
When I get around to it I wil see how easy the driver and LED are reached to do modding and give measurements of critical parts.
Pics and such to follow.