On the new Sanyo NCR18650GA cell, almost fully charged, mine makes 1559.4 lumens. On my walk to take the trash can down to the road it performed very well, I do need to find where to cut off the step down as I truly dislike a flashlight telling me how much output I can have, especially when it wasn’t even getting warm. At almost 10 O’clock at night it’s still 88º out, but the GT mini was handling the XP-L HI just fine. Beam profile and throw distance are both admirable, easily showing me things out past 400 yds and putting enough light out past 600 to identify where things were. Very small, very light in the hand.
And the 18350 tube on it is just cute as a bug! lol
And for the record, yes indeed it is an 18650/18350 light. Jason asked about high drain so I went big since I’m already home. (I tested the 21700 with no battery tube on the head, wondering what kind of max potential it may have.)
The Sanyo GA is a 3500mAh cell, as high in the capacity class as they come. And yet it makes only 151 lumens less than the extreme Samsung 30T 21700 cell. So I’d say any top cell in the 18650 class will show very good results.
The bezel is glued. I will have to do it tomorrow.
I thought there were a lot of requests to leave the glue out. No worry, I’ll get it apart, but it could be so easy had they just listened. I would have merely flashed Anduril and been happy with it.
Now I will do much more… I may even make a new battery tube for the 21700, don’t know yet. Sounds like a plan though, removing the branding…. It might give me pleasure to cut the driver out on the lathe. :smiling_imp:
Maybe tomorrow I will not be so unhappy with it because of the glue. Time will tell.
Ok weird, why not use dhl for all countries in EU ? o well happy for u
komeko, dont be sad it shouldnt take that long, i dont think they are using the super slow china mail that takes weeks or months i think its faster mail service. when i buy stuff from banggood i chose “direct mail” and get track numbers LX NL and it takes like a week or so to deliver to my mailbox in sweden so thats fast from china…