This is the result, but bear in mind since the driver is using boost topology it doesn’t reflect emitter current.
I was using a single Samsung 30Q.
low = 0.19A
mid1 = 0.57A
mid2 = 1.5A
High = 2.8A - 3A
Turbo = 6A(start) 6.15A(few seconds afterwards)
On high and turbo the amp draw steadily climbs this reflect current regulation to the emitter to maintain stable emitters current. in lower mode should be the same but not that visible since the battery doesn’t sags as much.
It is interesting though, with some basic math on turbo with boost driver efficiency of 80% the emitter probably get around 1.4A.
what happened? i have done assembling disassembling battery tube and board many times during testing, nothing get undone so far. one thing that could unscrew probably driver retaining ring due to friction but it is still holding fine so far.
Im thinking that me trying to squeeze in protected cells put a large strain on it and weakened it. But in my defense, there is no warning on haikelites page NOT to use protected cells.
Another question, does this light have any kind of low voltage protection?
I am sure the rest of the light would be ok once you fixed the tail spring, could be the protected cells but none of my protected cell is short enough to power the flashlight so i gave up on that.
I am not sure of the of low voltage protection it is not mentioned anywhere in the manual, but the ramp up and down thing when battery almost empty is not documented either, in my opinion that ramp up and down is a battery low indicator since i could reproduce it every time.
btw. i have asked Haikelite to answer some of the questions posted here.
i opened mine too this both came from MT01 and MT02. freeme also had the same problem but with SC01 head spring.
re-soldered mine, also re-soldered them all around not one sided. There are few things that could contribute, the coating of the spring, Haikelite uses lead free solder or the solder is not flowed properly.
Using LX1330B meter at 12 feet distance I got 4300 lux, which converts to 57,525cd, so quite a bit less than what you got. This was with 3 fresh 30Q cells.
Well i did the test and came up at 2800 Lux @4.8m or 64512cd with slightly discharge LG HG2 so it is still within that area, try longer distance you could very well be measuring the hole in the hotspot