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.
You might be able to grind one down if you can, to get the board to fit.
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.
The diameter isn't much more than a typical AA light, right? I don't know why but something in all the pictures makes it look quite stocky.
Five minutes with a file. Didn't want to completely remove the teeth, just make them less silly.
It did take a lot of careful cleaning of the PC under the vice though...
My review here. http://www.jayki.com/6843 It is exactly the same size as the K106 now
Looks a lot better Don....would you be able to post a pic so we can see the side view of the light.
Here you go. This is with the teeth cut back as far as I wanted.
Did the beam pattern of the light improve or is there no difference at all. Thanks for posting that up Don.
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.
Cool thanks man.
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.
Ted Dinodirect are using your images man.
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.
Ted is Dinodirect a good company, do they sell fakes or anything like that?
They have Fenix lights are they real?
I wouldn't buy from a company I just can't trust, one that steals pictures and posts fake reviews.
Given the previous - take your own bet....
Would you trust them?
What in the world? That's sleazy. I just updated their rating page.