Got mine today.
I have somewhat mixed feelings about this light. Not bad, but not good either (as stock). Fairly good for the price paid and good for modding.
Pros:
- Nice design, ergonomic & feels good in hand
- Quite throwy (about 28 kcd)
- Good for modding: Just make a good solid pill and add >3A driver
- Multiple battery choices: 26650, 18650 with tube, 4xAAA with included holder
- Initial brightness with 4xAAA almost equals the brightness with lion (didn't dare running real runtime tests with hollow pill, see cons)
- Aluminum reflector & glass lens (egde of lens was chipped)
- Well centered emitter (with centering ring, seems to be standard in budget lights nowadays)
- No memory (starts on high after being off more than 10s)
Cons:
- Driven a bit low (not so bad)
- Keygos 26650: 2.3A, 1.1A, 0.5A
- TF Flame 18650: 2.5A, 1.2A, 0.6A
- 4xAAA alkalines: 1.5A, 0.75A, 0.4A
- I would prefer lower low
- Very bad PWM on low, one of the worst I have ever seen (will measure this later)
- Hollow pill, star hanging on very narrow lip -> Nearly nonexistent thermal path
- Ringy beam
- Build quality is not top notch (but not very bad either, especially for the price paid)
- Threads feel "cheap" and were dirty
- Spring in driver is poorly soldered, "too" long, and moves sideways causing contact problems with 18650 (not with 26650 or 4xAAA though)
- Tight fit with my Keygos 26650 (some 26650 might not fit)