Yeah I’ve been skeptical of anything from Nitecore. I have a specific interest in one light (NU05) because of its unique form factor, but I’m not expecting much from it.
The rectangular light that made the most sense to me was the Surefire Sidekick, but Unheard mentions that it has had reliability problems, which seems unfortunate and un-Surefire-like. I hope they can get them sorted. I wonder whether the Sidekick is a “real Surefire” or is something they bought on Alibaba. They dropped the price drastically since introducing it. Before that, though, I’m sure they could have fixed any issues it had.
My runtime is way off their rating. I got 35min on High and 58 min on Med. Specs show 56min High, 136min Med. Still need to measure Low. I always state the ANSI spec though
Room Temp - 20°C without cooling. To get their specified runtime it would of needed to be hotter than the ANSI testing allows of 22 ± 3 °C or perhaps my battery is a dud
The lightmeter went out at some point, but the specs are met. This is relative intensity vs. Minutes, low mode. Seven hours later it was still on moon, LED indicator showed yellow.
Your minix might have too much output or too little capacity.
Strange. I measured the battery at 255mAh from a run on Low. Still had battery left to run on moon for 4+ hours, so guessing it would be fairly close to the 300mAh rated battery.
Yours is the UV version. Mine is the Red version which could very well use a different driver
Thank you for your testing. Slightly annoying that the UV and Red versions perform differently