Some all might get a kick outta this. Sealed in their boxes units btw……
Of the ten I received only one worked with an Eneloop. That one as I examined its driver components had that “F” biggish chip already with the corner nearest the positive anode showing a ‘crack’.
Hmmmmm. Someone at the factory (Sung Yu?) had obviously tried an Eneloop. Couldn’t get it to work either.
Was told…“Sung Yu!!! Stop trying Eneloop! Test only alkyline! How many time tell you!”.
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Anyway, I figured leave the stock spring where it is. Stick in an Eneloop and see if it it’ll work with that chip corner already ‘pre-chipped’. Lo and behold, I hear a “krik!” as I turn down the head.
And it works.
So I remove the head and examine the driver. Sure enough the cracked corner is now completely chipped off leaving only a very very slim slice of chip plastic remaining at its base next to the anode. Wiring in the chip is now exposed as well.
There ya have it. The “F” chip being so close to the driver positive is the main culprit - not allowing the Eneloop positive anode to make full contact with the driver brass button. The 10mm long spring left intact now allows the flash to work. I think it would be pretty tuff to dremel that chip corner base down as fine as this “effortlessly” turned out. Risky because you’d be grinding so close around the tiny driver board at this juncture - much less accidently hitting other components in the process. You’d need one tiny grinding bit too. I wouldn’t do it unless I didn’t give a rat sh*t whether I won the battle or not.
Bottom line is that you’re prolly better off going with Arow55’s coil reduction solution and just leave it at that.
The Eneloop insulation face still sticks above the tube by about 4mm as it does when stock and as shown in Jon Slider’s pics above for his Olights. Previously I had mentioned that it stuck up about 1mm when the spring coils were removed to about a total of 4mm height. Well if anyone else runs into this I would suggest to get the Eneloop insulation face just even or slightly below the tube top. This means yer cutting off about 6mm to 7mm from the stock spring. That’s a lot and more than just one coil - for mine at least.
I mentioned to Arow55 that the tan version was sexy. B*tchin’ actually. I have to say it’s kinda becoming one of my favorite colors for any flash now. Makes a purrty little flash that particular ThruNite Ti2 tan shade does.
With that……
Good nite, Alice.
Good nite, Notta. See ya in a year or two.
PS. I just thought about it some more. I have a hunch that one unit wasn’t tested at the factory with an Eneloop. It was likely a outside pristine warranty return that indeed worked with their alkaline batt! Oooooooo.