I have two lights with onboard charging…26650 but both made the 26800 tubes available, so that makes it easy. M3C and FT03. I made an adapter sled for my usual Miboxer charger using the 26650 cradles that I split (for elongation) and mounted to a wood block with soldered 10ga stranded wires and a dummy cell, which works very well but is a little fiddly, so I’ve been mostly charging in the lights. If Vapcell follows through on an updated charger that takes these cells, I’ll buy one as long as it’s decent. Xtar did bring out that single cell charger for 26800 which I think without coupon was around $14, have to order it from China, though…they didn’t seem interested in stocking it in the US for some reason but maybe that’s changed, or will change. I think Yonii introduced a single cell unit as well and hopefully they’ve improved its faults. I was half hoping that maybe Astrolux/Banggood would update one of theirs but it doesn’t look like that will happen, and it also doesn’t look like Xtar will bring out a more fully featured 26800 bay charger.
I just realised that the 365nm 8x5W mule may not be very useful as I thought.
Because there is no throw compared to a Convoy for example. And having it floody and at max output does not produce any advantage over a single 5W 365nm light. On the contrary hurts the eyes like hell.
What’s the actual limitation? The 8A amperage of the boost driver (quad E21A should be fine at 8A though) or something with the board being parallel or not?
Hello, I just received my D1, with an RGB switch, but I don’t know how to control that button, to choose the color and so that it doesn’t stay on.
I also think I’ve read that it can tell the battery voltage, but I’m not sure.
I hope someone can give me a little help.
Thank you very much, greetings.
Hank, will we see a buck + boost driver from you in the future?
Trading the turbo mode for all the benefits of a boost driver is understandable, but the lack of a proper moonlight mode is too great a sacrifice, at least for me.
White body. I believe this is MAO. It looks like the white from the TS10 MAO pictures … noticeably whiter and less silvery than the white body from my D4v1.
Cyan switch light with raised switch ring.
Variable color temp.
Channel 1: 3500K 519a dedomed
Channel 2: 5700K 519a dedomed
I originally thought about going with 2700K 519a dedomed in Channel 1, but decided that was probably just too warm. Especially since dedoming seems to reduce color temp by approximately 1000K.
As expected, build quality is excellent. However, the threads at the head were a bit squeaky out-of-the-box. Lubing them up with Nyogel solved the problem.
So far I’m quite pleased with it. It feels great in the hand and the beam pattern, CRI and tint are excellent. Knurling and clip are excellent. Head is the same size as the D4v2 head, but with slight differences in the threads. Finally a 21700 light that is small enough for pocket EDC (barely. If I’m in the mood for a slightly larger than I would normally carry light).
I have the same light. I have SW45K D180 lights. This trumps them. I will own another that is warmer on the lower end. I think dedome is the way to go, if offered. Since offered.