How do I contact Simon at Shockli? Also, I don’t know who Simon is at all.
I’ll take all the advice/help I can get - it’s all useful. I’m way newer here than you and even past that life’s about learning.
If I can a reliable supplier of some decent cell I can trust then yeah the 26650 is definitely back on the table. I did recently end up paying for a Cu+Ti FF E07, which I expect will be beautiful and cellable with a Samsung 21700 but have a bit of QC wonkiness.
Rbpinto seems to know about shipping to Australia by AliExpress, see above. If that does not work others will chime in with their experiences, but it would not hurt to contact Simon:
E-mail: sales@shockli.com
Website:www.shockli.com
Hope it is not too expensive.
I received my new D4SV2 yesterday. So nice! Cyan, Stainless Bezel, floody optic, and SST-20 4000K. It’s pretty awesome for my uses - home, truck, campsite.
I bought this holster for my D4SV2 and I love it. It’s a bit stretchy so it will fit several other lights with a similar size.
It can be rotated and snapped into 45 degree angles so you can use the light to shine in front of you with your hands free. If you don’t want the rotation at all, just glue the rotating part of it.
For a diffuser, this one in 36mm should fit snugly. I bought a similar one from Banggood, but it’s not available there anymore.
It should be possible but it is not the best idea because you loose a lot of runtime and brightness. Also the AA alkaline batteries are known for leaking.
If you use only the muggle mode with three rechargeable AA batteries it should work well. Most likely they won’t deliver more than 1000 lumen. Maybe you could also use a protected 26650 battery?
I looked at the topic closer…
Quite a few 26650 lights support 3*AA. But 3*AA holder is actually over 30 mm in diameter. Too large for D4S.
Protected 26650 probably won’t work - Emisar lights don’t tend to support protected cells.
Anyway - while I feel that protected Li-ion cell threadlocked in a rechargeable light would be a fair choice I would still feel better with NiMh.
There are a bunch of settings and you can have them different for different modes. I have mine set as a fixed color (usually red or magenta) when in “normal” mode and flashing or battery check when locked out.