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.
Just received my S42 today without its extension tube. I’m not reviewing the light really or anything else, but just pointing out a rather major flaw for a light that is supposed to have some degree of water resistance/proof. I have no decent camera or set-up so if the over exposed filming hurts your eyes, I’m pretty much pointing out that the micro USB flap is disgustingly inadequate and extremely easy to come off. At best, it is a poor dust cover. Not sure how return or exchanges work for banggood, but I’m sure a lot of you will be feeling the same way once you receive yours.
Oof! That’s pretty flimsy. Thanks for showing how easily it’s opened.
I guess I could fashion some sort of cover out of a bike innertube section, but it’ll get in the way of the switch. Hmmmmm. Gotta ponder what to do or possibly relegate this one to the bedstand.
If it’s really bad. To savage the light get some loctite gel super glue and glue it down… you just won’t have the external charging capabilities… I might do that if it keeps opening