It depends, and the only way to get good numbers is to measure… but, fortunately, HKJ measured.
On that particular cell, it looks like ~1170 mAh on low modes, ~1100 mAh on medium modes, and about ~1000 mAh on high/turbo. Which really isn’t bad at all.
On 18650 lights, it’s common for a 3000 mAh high-amp cell to last longer than a 3500 mAh high-capacity cell on turbo. The cells optimized for capacity tend to have much more voltage sag under load, and also much more capacity reduction under load, which makes them dimmer with output dropping faster… while the high-amp ones stay closer to their rated voltage and capacity.
Sometimes voltage sag can be a good thing though, like when direct-driving a Nichia 219c from an 18650 cell. A high-amp cell can fry the emitter, while an older saggier cell is safe to use. But this is kind of an unusual case.
Got to be quick. They sell almost instantly when they come back in stock. I got the XPG3 last night cause Nichia sold out before I could get it. XPG2 is still available but doubt anyone wants that.
Shouldn’t those who have pre ordered the Nichia variant be dealt with first? It seems that it is whoever is quickest to the button that succeeds in getting one? That sort of defeats the point of pre-ordering.
219C still on backorder for me. Order placed on May 16. It would be nice if they shipped out all the pre-orders before starting a new batch for the stainless and colored versions.
I preordered a Nichia on May 15. a few hours after M4dm4x sent his mail and it was shipped a few days ago yesterday.
I ordered an extension tube on the 1th, shipped the 2th
You should find points in your account in the point section there should be a history.
So for my first group buy it went well so far.
I am bit nervous cause its my first preordered lamp without any serious review. I would love to see a test from Maukka for this lamp, because there is one mention of CRI 90 https://forum.banggood.com/forum-topic-342295.html
(which I doupt) Also there was one follow up answer with “minimum 90” and that is removed.
And Banggood doesn’t advertise 90 CRI nor Manker does for the E14 II. Manker did it for the E14, so I think its a mistake.
I wonder if it has the same driver as the Manker version. If so, it might make a good firmware mod host. Wouldn’t take a lot of work to give it a ramping UI…
Making the Astrolux holster compatible with the 18350 configuration for the S41
The idea was to use the extra space in the bottom for a spare battery(needed). I rough cut a 18650 case to 1.5 inches(a bit longer than a 18350 in order to get some grip from the side elastic panels). The spare battery can be accessed by upending the holster and shaking a bit, same for reinserting the depleted battery, drop it in the top of the holster and shake a bit and it easily finds its niche.
Still waiting on the Manker holster, as we might be able to just drop spare 18350’s into the bottom of the holster w/o any other mods.