Hey all, first post here but thought I’d share my experience with this light.
Before you read the rest, know that I love this little light and want to get the pinapple AA version now.
(POST EDITED) It appears that Rey’s site already says that a normal button top battery is not suggested, something we should have read a little better.
Worked great out of the box, my one gripe was the tail switch was a bit sticky and needed to be pressed straight down to function properly. Fixed by unscrewing and re-seating.
Then I dropped the light (threw it accidentally by chasing it) against a tile ceramic floor. Very hard.
This caused the same problem described above, it will give problems with a normal AA and tightened down all the way, but with the shorter rechargeable there’s no issue.
The extra length of the button top on the Energizer ultimate lith. is the difference, and depending how much you tighten can cause either flickering or complete failure to turn on. Loosening one turn fixes it.
Trying to work the action back and forth seemed to make it better, making me think the board itself is possibly unseated a bit? I am no flashlight engineer so this is as much as I can say.
Otherwise, the light works great and I absolutely love it. Honestly I’m amazed it took the abuse I’ve dished out and the light only started giving issues after I smashed it. Fast shipping too, lovely tint.
Hmmm...I took the info on the website to mean that some button top 10440 are too long as illustrated in the photos. Regular alkaline, Eneloops and Energizer lithium’s are all button tops ( at least the ones I have) but not in the extreme as illustrated. I don’t think he meant to exclude the use of all button top batteries...at least I hope not!
Mine also won’t turn on with any NiMH battery I have, just the 10440 that came with it. Tried tightening/loosening the pill and that didn’t work. It won’t come on with the head loosened a bit either, like it is for some other users.
I played around with loosening and tightening the pill some more, and found a spot where it seems to be working fine with NiMH cells now. I got it by loosening the pill a lot, tightening down snug (not tight)and then backing off just a hair.
Can anyone confirm that the LVP works for the 10440? I just found mine at 2.1V and I can’t be certain if I didn’t accidentally click it on and run it down. But even if I did, I would’ve expected it to stop around 2.8V or so.
I did manage to get it lit on NiMh but only up to 2nd or 3rd mode then it just went OFF.
First batch of drivers... Rey will fix it with second one.
Oh yeah i forgot to mention i’ve placed Lumintop IYP365 with 219B and 2xEneloopAAA next to Pineapple Mini with Efest 10440 and guess what, it’s not nearly brighter than on Alkiline.
So yeah, max is not nearly bright as it should be on 10440
Sorry for late reply. The Coronavirus is delaying everything. I have asked the factory to retest the output. Then I have realized there was a mistake, the sample was 219C LED, which had 300 lumens.
