nearly three and a half weeks have come and gone, still no light . . . .
nice review,
waiting on the 14500/AA version.
I ordered the Manker EO2, black, XPG3, from HKEquipment today. Got an 8% discount from Martin’s code, and Paypal was giving $5 off any purchase of $15 or more for 2 days. So I got it for $13.35 Good deal I think. Sounds like a nice lil light, brighter than any other AAA on alkaline I believe.
hoo-yah!
I guess the paypal $5 off is not active anymore? At least that did not work for me today. Too bad, I would have bought a 2nd for that price. Actually still waiting for my first though. At least it is in country finally.
Yes, good for the 10th and 11th:
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thanks for the PM and posting here. I did make a $100 paypal purchase earlier today and did not get the $5 discount, so I am thinking I would not get it here either. I checked my paypal wallet and did not see any notice for this discount. My wife gets paypal correspondence,and maybe my 2 days came and went already, not sure. No worries, as I certainly don’t need another one yet . . .
this is all that was on the ad that I have not already posted:
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sorry for derailing the thread Trevi…… just trying to help a fellow flashaholic save a dime 
I’ll keep it in a PM next time.
very helpful!
looks like the E02 is about 4500k
very impressive that it runs regulated at 200lm, more than once, and without getting too hot to hold for 3 minutes.
I recently got a 18350 light with a 3minute turbo, but after 1 minute, its too hot to hold. (1200 lumen turbo on Mecarmy PT16)
also super helpful, thank you!
I am learning that the Nichia brightness reduction is not a consistent percentage, turbo and high drop 16% but low drops over 50%.
in any case the fact that moonlight can be adjusted from 0 to 0.5 w a Nichia is great!
what a great mode selection!
hmmm, my buy it now button is itching
I know you would have it already if they offered it in copper 
Even so, it would fit well in your collection. How many other red lights do you have? 
Wow, quite a unique combination:
nice tint, high CRI (Nichia 219C), very high output with standard AAA cell, multi-mode, moonlight, can be used as headlamp, magnet, other colors than black !
Very nice ! Looks like I need to put this on my wishlist…
Received this today.
I have to say… I think this is one of my nicest AAA-lights ever especially for the price.
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“headlamp form” & clip & magnet
NO PWM!!
Nichia… <3
Decent Power for size YET low-enough moonlight mode for them runtimes
Price is OK for the quality I would say
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Can´t really think any other, than some opinions may vary about mode spacing but I´m OK with them.
The first (moonlight) low mode is programmable you know that right? I thought the lowest programmable moonlight mode was a hardly visible super low…
congrats!
some of the most Wavy Output Ive ever seen on a chart: (pic is a link)
Even though the light is constant current w NoPWM, it is NOT constant brightness.
Something just dawned on me.
If we could track our own retina’s, they would probably not have a smooth line.
We have PWM !!
If we didn’t have built in dithering, imagine how crappy a movie would look?
Later,
Dithering Keith
Something just dawned on me.
If we could track our own retina’s, they would probably not have a smooth line.
We have PWM !!
If we didn’t have built in dithering, imagine how crappy a movie would look?
Later,
Dithering Keith
in the reality…y our view can not distinguish the difference between 255 lumens and 260 lumens for example … to say something, it’s the same as a flat line.
yes, I know we can’t see the difference between 200 and 260 either, but my battery can.
so yes, you can always tell yourself that what you can’t see without a test instrument does not matter, to you.
I otoh, want to know what is actually happening, so Im just sharing the unstable “constant” current regulation output that shows in the chart.
it seems every time I bring up something about the way a light works, people jump in to mention that it does not matter because they can’t notice…
I think that misses the point
In this graph we are not talking about difference 200 and 260…… we are talking about difference around 10 lumens… Is good comment, but I also comment my point of view. (sorry for disturb you comment )
Regards
Trevi, I respect your review efforts. Did you get the light for free?
fwiw, Not all lights that use Constant Current, have constant brightness, here is another example of a light with a wavy output, the Eagletac (uses Constant Current that does not produce constant brightness) in this chart, and also the SRT9 has wavy lines:(more info
Vendors have started sidestepping PWM by using Constant Current. But the brightness is not necessarily constant. Wavy lines are not straight lines:-)