No lock mode ? (to avoid accidental pocket turn on…)
Pictures fixed was added in the title when sli.mg closed and reuploaded images to photobucket .
It’s a little time consuming , so i don’t think I’ll be doing it again , sorry .
Exactly , no lock-out mode…
On the LAD you don’t really need it, the switch is designed so an accidental activation is very unlikely. I’ve never heard of anyone having had a problem with it.
That is absolutely outstanding!
I can see your photos again…
Thank YOU!!!
I like the light a lot but the battery is shite as it died after about 10 cycles and half a year. Binned it and won’t buy another. Waiting for a similar light to appear on the market.
Wrong. I’ve had it about 2 weeks and already activated it in my pocket twice. You can turn the LAD sideways and press against a flat table and it will easily turn on. The button looked recessed but it isn’t recessed enough. With a lockout this would be an amazing product but it is a HUGE oversight.
With a proper battery it would be a HUGE product.
We get it you are salty. Batteries can go bad in any product. Is there evidence these batteries fail at a high rate or something?
Someone told me there’s a thread on here that would suggest that and that Manker replied they will replace the battery. But I didn’t know and binned it already. Also, I’m not inclined to change batteries in such a light.
I stand corrected, at least I haven’t had any problems.
manker claims 100hours on the red mode, i find this more like 50 hours or so, anyone can verify?
Related to run time, I seem to have charging issues. Charge time often seems (too) short, so I’m not sure whether I have a decent charged LAD. I did a sort of run time test on dragon breath mode with a “fully” charged LAD, and it quit after only two days…
okay mine seems to charge a little over 1 hour or so, so 2 days is no way close the rated 100hours… shame
The cells are obviously crap … capacity not ok. Mine was dead after 10 cycles.
I recently acquired one of these lights and have been playing with it. Issue I have is try to leave it on “high” and after a few minutes drops to red. This was after being charged. I’ll try to run the battery down and charge it again.
high mode is for short bursts only, the battery is small, about the capacity of an AAA…
you can see in this graph (from post#1)
that high mode drains the battery very rapidly, and the max brightness is not maintained at all. This kind of step down from max is common to most flashlights.
at most, The Lad might capable of a steady output of the medium mode for 1/2 hour… we would need to find a runtime graph of the medium mode to confirm that
fwiw, the specs are
High:300 lumens, 0.5 hour
note the OP got the specified runtime
definition of ANSI Runtime
Runtime is defined as the amount of time, rounded to the nearest quarter hour, until output drops below 10%.
If you would like a suggestion of a flashlight that can deliver about 300 lumens for an hour, maintaining 300 lumens almost the whole time, you need something with a CR123/16340 battery, and a Cool White Low CRI LED, like in this S1 Mini: clic pic for review
^ The light does step down from highest mode, but if it steps down to red, then that’s not good (if the battery was full). Stepping down to red means battery is low.
agreed, IF the battery is completely full, and the light steps down to Red in less than 30 minutes, then it is out of spec
but that does not mean we can run turbo repeatedly for several minutes, without recharging…
when the light steps down after the first 2 minutes, most of the charge is used up
some people think they can fire Turbo over and over again, on a single charge
or they think the light is going to hold Turbo for 30 minutes
both of these are untrue. The manufacturer does not make that clear, so I understand how someone might expect Turbo to last 30 minutes at full brightness, until they understand the Ansi standards for runtime reporting.
also, batteries in the LAD do NOT benefit from being fully drained, that strategy does not apply to type of battery in the LAD
for those concerned about runtime on Turbo mode, do a test, follow the protocol the OP posted… charge the battery completely… then do only One runtime test on Turbo and see if your results are different than the OP, who got a total of 33 minutes (of declining brightness) before red lights came on
That’s how I’ve interpreted his words when mentioned “after being charged”.