Lookin forward to your report with the switch. I’m not a huge fan of the travel, but at the same time it is kind of nice to not worry about it accidentally triggering.
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Mine arrived today (thanks for the GAW, MascaratumB!!)
I’ve only played with it for like 1 minute but it seems to be in good order so far. Bright, connection is good after I tightened it (it did flicker at first), beam pattern is fine in mine (no donut hole, LH351D version). The noisy button is kinda annoying but nothing I can’t live with (or honestly I can probably find that with a new e-switch or something). I’ll give it a good run through tonight when it gets dark.
I hope they could correct the “beam artifacts” issues for the Meote FM1 with XPL-Hi and SST20 LEDs (the LH351D is acceptable beam, other than lower brightness than expected). The XPL-Hi and SST20 have also lower brightness than expected and with noticeable beam artifacts. If they change the optic in the updated versions, I expect that they can ship out the replaced good optic for those who purchased the early batch FM1 with the poor beam artifacts on SST20 and XPL-Hi LED versions.
This issue seems a bit common for flashlights that don’t use springs on both ends of the battery tube (head & tail). The Meote uses a button on the positive side, thus a bump may disconnect (a spring will usually not have this issue) — however I think having a button may have some advantages (lower resistance for current to pass?)