Maybe what you said about this flashlight was a question and not a comment? Did you mean “Does it suffer” instead of “But it suffer”? (because the question mark at the end)?
Anyhow it sounds like you do not have this flashlight and you have not seen, read, or heard of these issues with it.
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Yes the majority of zoomies have the square hot spot, and many have a ringy beam, there are some however that are engineered to not display the square spot when fully zoomed out, and some have a smoother less ringy spill.
All the flashlights you mentioned are around $6 flashlights (not sure what a TX7 is but Tasco made an XR7) So there is not a lot of quality engineering with those, yes those type of light will “suffer” from square spot and rings (some people prefer the square spot though, it’s a bit more intense)
This light that you replied about however has a completely different optic system than those.
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Enderman and I answered your concerns above in posts #137 and #139 when we replied to your statement: _“I opted out of any future zoomies due to square hot spot and shadow rings of light on exterior of hot spot_” I even listed this light (Fitorch version - same light) in my reply of lights that don’t have a square spot.
Thanks for the reply you had me a bit worried since I just ordered the Litesam E11Z partially based on the review showing it doesn’t have a square hotspot and the beam shots show a nice beam with no ringy artifacts.
I see the photos helped. Yes, I bought it at Academy and I was thinking 9V when I wrote 9xAA that one late night, oops!
When I saw the light with a multi-die LED, I fought the impulse buy for a few days but gave in. I was hoping for 2S, 3P for the battery arrangement but then discovered what it was. I’ve never used a 6V or 12V LED so I figured the Li cells necessary for it and then ordered from Mr. McDougal. I bought theseEFest 26500
They’re connected in series with a magnet and are definitely hi-drain.
I by-passed the overheated original wire with a silicon 22 AWG wire, soldered to the stock driver. It passes through the recessed ‘rivet’ positive contact to a piece of copper wire soldered to the contact board to make a raised contact for the flat-top battery. I stripped the wire, soldered it to the contact board and snipped the excess. The contact board is essentially held in place by the 22 AWG wire. The assembly (brown plastic piece) is press-fit into the pill. The driver is held down with this piece. I looked for another driver but decided the original will do. With the modifications, it went from a 3A light to 8A, mentioned above. Not pretty but it works.
Alliance Sports Group (contacted via nebowarranty@alliancesportsgroup.net) came through with the warranty lens and tail-cap but the cap doesn’t screw down all the way, shallower threads. Perhaps the Nebo Blast is manufactured slightly differently than the iProtec 1400 or I received a tail-cap for a different batch… a little concerning. Anyway, I can use the PCB switch, spring and switch cover for spare parts. I already received the Omten switch from Mountain Electronics. I’ve pushed the original parts too hard with Li batteries and the light is a ‘project’ but I think the driver can handle it. I’m also contemplating drilling into the pill for screws to hold the aluminum MCPCB a little better to the pill.
You can see it’s unavailable.
So it was when I wanted to buy it.
I contacted the seller and they re-listed it. So it may or may not still be possible to get one.
Oh, I thought you had a bad cold… but went for a walk anyway! :person_facepalming:
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Anyway it sound like you’re happy with the light? I message’d them to see if it will be available.
Interesting store, most of their non-dive lights are re-branded models but they had a few interesting models I don’t recall seeing around, like these three (non-zoomers):
Sounds good, I did a quick search for a sale thread on it here to see what u got but came up empty. I’ve heard of Olson black but I don’t know about it, it’s special for thrower?
Cool, thanks for the full explanation now it all makes sense! ……a “C” size IMR! Now you got me lookin’ at my 2-C Mag!
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I was just looking at some NEBO’s and Ray-o-Vacs at a “Batteries+Bulbs” store yesterday…
NEBO Seven-Z zoomie, This thing felt SUPER nice, was solid and heavy like a brick!
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Ray-O-Vac “Beast” Cree 2000lm, thought these might be multi-die but couldn’t get the box open to see the emitters.
The higher priced one on the right is Li-ion powered
I think it may be the successor to the HP1 that appears to now be discontinued, but still available on Amazon. I’ve been wanting to grab one of those, it comes up for around $7-$8 every so often but I keep missing it.
I only just saw this now… my god… I don’t know what to say… I might order one just for the heck of it! Ain’t never seen a flashlight like that! :confounded:
I quite like the HX5. Nice white tint. Nice beam profile in both spot and flood. CRI plenty good to easily differentiate wire colors in a harness. Extremely easy to deploy when clipped head up in my back pocket. Forward click with momentary. It’s my most used light, partly because of how easy it is to deploy. The tail cap threads have become a bit dry and gritty after several battery changes over the last year, so I need to try to relocate my lube. Sometimes I wish it had a second, lower mode, but setting it to flood mode helps compensate for lack of lower mode.
