Another excellent review going on the frontpage thanks to brted. Great pictures and great attention to details!
I wonder if the KD version is different from the DX version? I noticed that the KD version is several bucks cheaper than the DX version, which is a significant price difference in this price bracket. Why are so many new lights coming out with those worthless crenelations? As I believe Don said once, if I want to smash or bludgeon something I'm not going to do it with a flashlight. If any Chinese flashlight engineers are reading this review, please leave them out in the future! On the other hand I really do like the spring-loaded metal post on the inside of the tailcap, it looks and feels much more robust than a simple spring. I have the SmallSun ZY-C41, which also has what appears to be an almost identical endcap. I do hope that trend continues. At any rate, you saved me a few bucks, I was sort of considering this light. Thanks!
I was thinking real hard about it before I did my first mod by soldering the LED's leads directly to + and -. The problem is the board is 14mm diameter and most are 17mm or more. If there was a good driver with high, medium, low and mode memory, then this would be a pretty good light. And Don really liked the 1-mode which is about what mine is now. The only problem is I can't run it off of an AA, so it li-ion or nothing.
I found with my Trustfire F20 that the unwanted mode changes from slight knocks or from being set down to tailstand practically disappeared after I tightened up the LED module into the head. Do you think this could have been the problem? For me, the mode-changing concern and the ugly crenelations are the two things that concern me most about this light.
It could be. I blew it out before I could play around with it too much. It had to be some kind of loose connection where when it was bumped it would briefly cut power and go to the next mode. It certainly doesn't have any problems with that now. It would be easy to grind the crenallations off, but that might look even worse.
Looked up some pre filing beamshots and the teeth didn't seem to affect the beam at all. I still need to clean up the filed edges - will be where there is a bench grinder and polisher tomorrow so will tidy up the job.
Looks a lot better now, thanks for the pictures Don. Another option would be to round off the sharp edges of the teeth so at least it could be carried in a pocket.
Hey, that's my backyard! At least they serving the images themselves instead of using my bandwidth. Thanks for letting me know. They actually have some pretty decent pictures. I wonder who else they stole them from?
I noticed that there were an awful lot of reviews posted and they sounded very generic. They are fake. I googled phrases from the reviews and found hits from reviews on Amazon and other lights at Dino. Sad that they have to resort to fraud to sell products.
