I heard the mail carrier’s jeep coming down the road and found my light in the pile of junk mail.
I got it inside, tore it open and am impressed with the construction. It comes with a Pairdeer INDUSTRIAL alkaleak cell (which I promptly removed. Nice of them to supply one, but I don’t want to have to clean up the gunk once it leaks. I swapped in a Ni-MH cell I had laying around, removed the protective disc from the driver and enjoyed the nice and large hot-spot with a good deal of spill.
Upon closer inspection, I noticed, square threads which were already greased and an interesting optic. It doesn’t appear to be reflector with a glass lens, but something different to my aging eyes. Kinda cool.
The packaging is well done and I’m pretty sure this’ll see a good deal of use on my keychain. I’m not sure I’d call it “Desert Tan” though. More towards the brown, but I like it. It’s got a satin finish that I like and the machining allows me to grip it just fine.
Olight really have no interest in customers outside fr,de, or uk ,sent to both uk and de email how can i buy one to Sweden… not even a reply… thanks for that… This is just utter nonsense that a small crappy light like this is exclusive to certain regions… its not a big beefy light with 100wats of battery that has restrictions on shipment etc… im just so fed up with this
Mine came today. Nice little light. Being a fan of the ITP A3 EOS, this is well machined and puts out a nice beam. I too removed the battery first thing and stuck an eneloop in there.
Does anyone know which led and tint they are using?
As of yesterday, my I3E still showed "processing" in my account on Olight's website. Today, it gave me a tracking number. The tracking number shows it was just accepted today at my local post office in Oregon. Seems there was a HUGE gap between processing and shipped.
Came today. Nice light! Wife is delighted that I got her a good light for her keychain to replace the crappy plastic L.L. Bean light that popped apart, the one she thought was "good" 'cause, you know... L. L. Bean.
USPS tracking shows mine was delivered today but it wasn’t in the mailbox. Perhaps it was put in a neighbor’s box by mistake and will turn up; otherwise I’ll find out what Olight customer service is like.
I did this runtime graph over a year ago, which shows a nice flat runtime. Olight says the runtime for the Desert Tan I3E is 1hr, 10min with NiMH. This graph confirms that. Note that this graph was for the silver 120 lumens version. The desert tan is the 90 lumens version, which would have a slightly longer runtime.
Use an Energizer Ultimate Lithium, and you will get about 1.5 times the runtime.1.5 the runtime.
1.5 the runtime.