Review: Nitecore MH10V2 (XP-L2, 1x21700, USB-C)

Is it just me, or are no pix showing up?

Images show up for me.

They're being hosted here:

lumenreviews.com

They show for me too!

Thanks for the review Budda !

While that side switch looks better than what’s on my EC23, it still looks prone to accidental activation.
I would’ve loved the EC23 if it had a tail clicky switch just for locking it out in my pocket. Alas.

Gnope. Pinwheels a minute or two then gives up.

I see them fine, and I’m using a rather aggressive adblocker suite… both ublock origin on the browser, and a pihole for my network.

Thanks for the very detailed review. The efficiency is very impressive for a single emitter light!

all the pics are hosted on my website.
if you look at old reviews, many of them were hosted on photobucket.

Huh… now they all just popped right up, no pinwheeling or nuttin’.



Hi

I’ve got mine today from a BlackFriday Deal. But I have a “dead”-spot in the center of the light beam… I can’t see any “dead”-spot on none of the pictures from the MH10 v2 on the Internet…

Should I return it?

Normal with most sharply-focused throwers. It goes away as the beam diverges.

Almost all of these lights have a donut hole at the center if you’re close enough from a wall. That’s just how the reflector works. It’s normal

Well, actually, even if it is not as yours, you can see that the center of the hotspot in this review’s photos has that “dot” in the middle of the beam. Click the images to see them bigger.
Depending on the proximity it has to the wall/floor/etc, you will see it more pronounced or not!!

So, I would just tell you to check if everything is well tied up in the head, and if it is…then you have a perfectly functioning light with just a normal beam. Although it is not beautiful :confounded:


Thank you

The fist shot had a distance from 60cm and it was noticeable. The following picture was made from 8m - the spot has now a diameter of 12cm.

On the reviews pictures, i can barely see it, but its far away from my “dead” spot.

My MH20 and MH20GT don’t have this kind of spot

Hum, I’ll be honest: despite what I said above, that doesn’t seem normal!
Have you checked if there is something on the led, reflector or lens?
Also, is the bezel glued or can you remove it?

I am feeling that the bezel has been put higher that it should and that it is causing that “donut” hole. If this was a XHP Led or a Luxeon MZ, it would be “normal” or at least more acceptable, but the light has a XP-L2, so I don’t think it is normal anymore.

Went to see some video reviews and couldn’t find anything similar… :neutral_face:

I can’t see any unusual thing on the reflector. The bezel is glued - i think - cant lose or tighten it.

All, seems well indeed. Maybe it is the “perfection” of the reflector then, that reflects the light to that one point.
I won’t be able to help you more on this, sorry. :zipper_mouth_face:

Thank u anyway. I sent it back, and hope I will get a new one.

I keep saying this, it should be a sticky…

The reflector isn’t a cup, but a cup with a hole. If you make the LED hole bigger, the reflector will basically be a curved ring, and will project a ring of light, not a circle.

All my best throwers, GTmini, P30, some C8s, etc., will all have, if not a darker hole, at least a change in color (bluer light from front-firing light from spill, vs yellower from the side-firing light that hits the reflector).

The more perfect the reflector, and the larger the ratio of reflector diameter to size of the chip, the crisper and cleaner and more pronounced that hole.

Use an orangepeel reflector, and the hole goes away at some expense of throw.

It’s when a reflector is less than perfect, the chip big relative to the reflector, or it sits too high/low from optimal, that there’s no hole.

So… hole is good, no hole is not so good. By the time the beam diverges with distance, the hole goes away anyway.