The driver has the same brass button you show. There are of course expected differences in component layout from Olight’s with the main one again being the distance from the button sides.
The left one (3EEOS) for example with its rectangular chip to the right of the button has essentially no green or circuitry gaps showing on mine. As well for the larger squarish one to the left. That tight. In fact under closer magnification let’s just say they’re touching the brass button.
That’s basically the gist of it.
Overall high quality in ThruNite’s products is clearly apparent in even these. And as I said, I really like the Ti3 so I’m not ragging on ThruNite’s products in general.
sad to hear the Thrunite batch has a component position problem.
Im suprised, since I believe all the different “brands”, get their parts from the same factory.
These are very cheap lights. The pill is plastic… I consider the Ti2, Olight i3e, Skillhunt E3a, useful as spare battery carriers. I dont choose to use them as lights myself, partly because the single mode is at a rather high output, which kills the battery quicker than I need.
otoh, they make good keychain lights, as they are very tiny and lightweight. And as gifts to muggles who use alkaleaks, they work.
for me though, they MUST also work on Eneloop… which is why I would vote with my wallet, and return the bundle of Ti2 that you discovered is not Eneloop capable…
“…….or me though, they MUST also work on Eneloop… which is why I would vote with my wallet, and return the bundle of Ti2 that you discovered is not Eneloop capable…”
to me it sounds like the positive on the battery is not reaching the positive on the driver.
because the battery is on a spring, the body tube can still move forward to contact the pill… unless arow55 is correctly solving an issue with the spring being at maximum compression, preventing body tube contact to negative ring on pill. If I understand arow55 correctly, his Ti2’s did not work until he cut the spring… I dont understand, but, if it works… well… maybe worth a try before returning the 10 pack.
I think (pure guessing without evidence yet), that the issue is because the eneloop positive post is wider and is hitting one of the parts on the driver. We confirmed by photo that the component is mounted slightly closer on the Ti2, than on my Olight i3e.
btw, the reason the components are on the battery side, is because the other side has the LED mounted directly to the board, no wires. imo the intent was to make the flattest driver possible. They did succeed at that.
whether the eneloop issue is spring length or positive post width, remains unclear to me
I would speculate that chipping the insulation off the component that is too close to the brass post on the driver, could enable a Ti2 to become eneloop friendly, without cutting the spring… I dont know if chips of insulation getting broken off by the battery, is the actual reason that arow55’s lights started working… Im glad he got them to work though, either way… Im not trying to doubt the report, that spring cutting was associated with a non eneloop friendly Ti2, becoming less prejudiced against phat posts.