Thought I'd post a link to my own thread on this light, I don't think I'd seen this one when I started that but it's probably of interest to people following this thread; https://budgetlightforum.com/t/-/5840
Greetings all. Just signed up after lurking for an extended period. I couldn't resist what I was reading and picked up a TR-J12 from Deal Extreme. It only took a month to get here...
It's quite an impressive light. Makes my old SSC P7 look dim. I wanted to fact check a couple of details from the thread...
From what I understand, the light is the same brightness regardless of the number of batteries installed (two versus three) and the only difference is run time. Is that an accurate assessment?
I'm using a lot of 18650 cells scavenged from old laptop batteries. These are too short to operate unless I add a small magnet. As near as I can tell from the design, there should be no risk of short circuit from the magnet if it's installed between two batteries because of the plastic sleeve (or at the tailcap for that matter). Would that also be an accurate assessment?
From what I can tell with my eyes I can not tell the diffrence in brightness between 2 or 3 cells, but I have not tested this on a light meter.
Regarding magnets it shoul be ok if they are in the middle of the battery tube and not on the driver or tail cap side, my battery spacer is a tad short on the tail cap side and this could move back and forward inside the battery tube.
I bought 3 of these from aliexpress back around Christmas and they came in about 2 weeks. Loved them! so I ordered qty 20 of these from linkdelight for $61.99ea w/ the 2 18650's the shipping came to only $22. I ordered these on Valentines day (2/14) and still haven't shipped. I contacted them many times just to get a tracking number and every time they tell me to wait 3 days and contact again if I haven't received. So on day 30 or at least (3/14) I opened a dispute with paypal. The next morning I check my email and paypal tells me i have a message from link delight in the resolution center. Linkdelight or (Ruby was her name) tells me that they need to confirm my shipping address! (This is 31 days after the order was payed for) So I log into linkdelight.com and look at my order info and my address is 100% correct. Why ask me 31 days later to confirm my shipping address. Still no refund or tracking number.
The first order was delivered to me about 2 weeks after placing the order from aliexpress. The second order was placed on february 14th 2012. I hope I get them as well or at least a refund. What am I going to do with them? I have a doctor buddy that wants 10 of them and some other friends that want some. The rest I will either sell or hold on to. Maybe give them as gifts.
The first order was delivered to me about 2 weeks after placing the order from aliexpress. The second order was placed on february 14th 2012. I hope I get them as well or at least a refund. What am I going to do with them? I have a doctor buddy that wants 10 of them and some other friends that want some. The rest I will either sell or hold on to. Maybe give them as gifts.