I could be wrong but I suspect these are not brass but instead, bronze. See how the old one hasnât blackened with age? No special care, it sits in my wifeâs purse and getâs used whenever she needs a light. Sheâs also got a tiny little Olight Titanium in her purse as well as a blue Emisar D4.
She likes to tell the story of a late night leaving the hospital when a couple of Security Guards were trying to assist a Nurse whoâd locked her keys in the car. They were trying to shine their light through tinted windows in an attempt to locate said keys inside the car but were having difficulty getting enough light inside to see. My wife offered up the Brass Beauty and they were like, âItâs ok maâam, weâve got this, youâre little light wouldnât be much help anyway.â Then she turned it on and put it up against the glass and they were amazed! lol Spotted the keys on the floor in front of the seat where the Nurse had dropped them in getting out of the carâŚ
Always a nice story to show how âflashaholicsâ lightsâ are not âlittle lightsâ :smiling_imp:
Hum, now itâs me whoâs getting leaned towards that Beauty!! I wonât be hard to mod it at all if the pill is like the S2+. MTN drivers will fit on that one for sure, with guppy3drv, it will be a nice light
A Luxeon V (4000K) can also be a good choice for the emitter.
A long list of desired lights, a short list on the bank account though :person_facepalming:
Thanks Dale :+1:
I have 0.5mm threads and just got through cutting some 0.75mm that are pretty fine, tiny works, lol.
I think these are 0.75mm, without measuring. It allows for a short piece of threaded attachment while still catching 6 or 7 threads. You canât afford to mess up any threads thoughâŚ
Should have complained sooner, next day the light turns up :person_facepalming:
Very nice light for the money. Bought it as a host, but the tint and output are very acceptable. Gonna leave it as is for now and use it as a general around the house / family light on nihm. At least till my sw40 r9080 nichiaâs arrive.
Just returning to say that after a few days of edcing this light I like it even more. Maybe because I wasnât expecting much, but it performs well above its price.
- More than enough output on an eneloop
- verry nice handfeel
- good mode spacing on nihm
- Tint is great, I probably wont even change the emiter.
- clicky has a verry nice feel
ss, but not to heavy to edc, much better than for instance the ultrafire C3
I have never run mine on anything but 14500. Never a single problem. Think I tried a NiMh in it one time just to see the difference. Worked just fine. Just down on brightness a little of course. If itâs bright enough for you with NiMh then buy a pack of Eneloops and turn off all the lights in the house tonight. Use the flashlight, and flashlight only as your only means of illumination. Tail stand it for taking a shower or using the facilities. Tail stand in the kitchen for cooking. Just use it for everything you do for a whole night. I have never made it a whole night. The kids yell at me and the wife calls the doctor and he shows up with needles and then next thing I know I wake up the next morning. I think my wife is pulling a fast one on me. Not sure though.
Yâall got me to look into EnoGear and I bought the little 18500 Brass Beauty. I had modified it with an X6 Bistro driver and XP-L HI emitter for some 1300 lumens but a friend was wanting me to modify his and he was wondering how the SST-40 would perform in it, so this afternoon I stuck an SST-40 in mine, pulled the cheap switch and put in a mini Omten and soldered the small berryllium spring to the switches contact pad.
On moon it makes 0.61 lumens, on Turbo it makes a whopping 2350 lumens from a flat top Efest 1000mAh 18500 cell.
Nice. I was thinking of getting that light as well. How does it perform in stock configuration? I have a few of their lights. The Stainless AA is a great little light. The Titanium 18650. Not so much. Itâs begging for a modding.
Got mine in three weeks but it seems some people are waiting that long. You should order one. Even if it takes 2 months you will most likely forget about it after a month and then a month later you will get a nice surprise in the mail.
Stock it has L-M-H-Strobe-SOS like most Chinese lights. Makes around 780 lumens on an Efest 1000mAh 18500. Very compact build, brass pill with a very thin retaining ring for the driver. The brass pill is hollow, has a wider shelf than most of this type though, so I re-flowed a copper MCPCB with DTP directly to it and it works quite well.
I think the material is a type of bronze as they donât really blacken like brass would, my wife has carried the 18650 version in her purse for years now and it still has a golden look to it, so all in all itâs a pretty nice light that holds up well. Itâs also a favorite of ToyKeeperâs.
This is one that would fare well with a Biscotti driver from SimonâŚ