The "Hank Wang, design us a 16340 light"-Thread

10A is the rated continuous current. Even the NCR18650GA rated at 10A can reach 3,000 lumens on the D4.

well there is a vapcell 800mah high drain that is one of the best.

I have a bunch of the vapcell 800mah. They are nowhere near as powerful as the Vapcell H10A. In fact the Acebeam 550mah is much more powerful than the Vapcell 800mah

but this thread is not about 18650, it is about 16340 :disguised_face:

Stop with SBT90.2 crap please. It’s 16340 thread FFS and not “turn me on for 2s before temp protection kicks in”.

A 16340 or 14500 light built to the level of quality that Hank delivers would be great.

A single LH351D, or even better, an E21A quadtrix would be a good match. 1x7135 + FET would be fine. The new 5A constant current driver would be superb.

I wouldn’t personally vote for a shallow reflector - I’d only need a moderate amount of spill. A regular reflector depth is fine for me (Like the S2+ or S2), or a TIR, especially if an appropriate size is available with different beam profiles. But I won’t be picky as long as the beam isn’t ringy.

I suspect I’d be very happy with the Olight S1R II size.

ok weird, which cell is acebeams ?

Me too. I have even arranged with the slightly taller S1R. This kind of space allows for all sorts of optics and reflectors as well as protected batteries with charging port.

Makes me sad so few are interested. But that explains why some manufacturers don’t touch this size. So, I’ll be happy with the lights I own as I was all the time before (got the first one in 2017).

I’m not really a fan of 16340, though it would be cool if he made one that took them, it would be pretty damn pocket carryable (that’s not a word) and you could get quite a bit of led power in the light for its size.

16340 would be great with an efficent driver, Anduril and a really good pocket clip.

Isn’t 14500 nowadays a better form factor being slimmer and having the same or more capacity than 16340 and 18650?

Capacity wise, a 14500 and a 16340 are similar, but an 18650 blows them both away.

Not exactly, 14500 top capacity is 1000mAh, while on 16340 is 850mAh.

18650 is of course better, but also requires bigger hosts.

16650 lights would be a good compromise in terms of capacity and size, but they are not known and the market is small for them.

Still the best format. I would be all over this.

1000mAh and 850mAh are similar compared to an 18650 with 3500mAh.

Good 14500 like the H10 and L10 Vapcell, yes. There was a really nice 16340 from Vapcell but they discontinued it, sadly, and the current ones available are decent but not as good…so 14500 would win there. Maybe you meant 18350 for the other…toss-up there because there are a couple that put a little more on the table than the 14500s do, but close, depends on what current is being asked of them. I’d rather see Hank do a 14500 than the others, although I recently picked up the shorty tube for the KR4 and it’s fun & compact-ish although four emitters on that little cell puts forth serious limitation in run time.

Yup in that aspect, indeed!
But, again, an 18650 would require a much larger host, losing some portability compared to 14500s or 16340s :wink:

Would I be wrong to assume that you and I would be all in if something like the Acebeam TK16 CU (or Ti) with Anduril appeared? :innocent:

Ryzbor brought up 16340, 14500, and 18650--not me.

I was simply responding to Ryzbor.

Yup, I know :wink:

And only now I noticed that maybe Ryzbor meant 18350 instead of 18650, as Correllux mentioned!
So, sorry for the confusion RC :+1: