In place of muggle mode, a cell that won’t deliver high performance but otherwise still works is a good idea. Like a Panasonic B, it’ll work fine, it just won’t burn anything.
Rats, just received a refund for the battery amount. Are the Thrunite 26650’s fairly good? Might get a NW Catapault V6 and borrow the battery out of my cool white for the D4S.
I ordered the Nichia D4S as I don’t have anything with that led. I’m still a total noob with only a half dozen lights, but figure I might as well see what this whole high CRI thing is all about.
I love my Catapult V6, but I am not sure at what amperage the protection kicks in with the included cell. The Emisar D4S is meant to use unprotected cells, it can draw 10+ amps, the Thrunite cell may also be too long to use.
Ah right, forgot about the protection. I think I was just trying to come up with a reason the get the NW Catapault. The CW is awesome (much more compact and throws almost as far as the Klarus G35), but nothing wrong with collecting the whole set. Unless you ask wifey of course.
I’ll have to see if there’s anyone in Scratchnwin that carries 26650’s. Sucks that very very few companies will ship batteries into Canada anymore.
I don’t think Emisar has done group buys or coupons in the past. Hank just seems to make the lights such a compelling price for the features from the start that they sell themselves without promotions.
Maybe there will be a price drop long term like the other Emisars, but who knows.
I finally got time to mod my D4S a little. I swapped in the prototype’s MCPCB so it’s now a 3A tint instead of 1A, and I tried out the flashing vias. I can confirm it works, but you may need to hold it very still during flashing or place it on a table and not touch it. I just used some solid-core wire I had laying around which was small enough to fit into the vias. I think it was 24awg or 26awg.
So now instead of ~6500K with RampingIOS V3, it’s ~5100K with Anduril. And I didn’t have to take the driver out.
I still don’t have a good 26650 cell though, so I don’t know what the peak output is. It’s difficult to measure that many lumens anyway.
Were you able to get the magnet tail cap from mtn? I ordered from intl-outdoor and mine shows shipped as of today. I paid $2 for tracking but haven’t been provided a tracking # yet.