Welcome to the site, lunatictr!
Thank you raccoon city. I knew something like this would happen and should have chosen another nickname. Oh, well!
Ahmet.
Welcome to your new family ..... :beer:
žPrices definitely dropped. Now we can gat it at 90$ including shipping (sunsky, eforchina etc)
(and thats the price for whole package - batteries and charger. )
I think this light would be much higher priced if it was any good for diving…
Thats diving light for diver who doesnt go into water, heh 
I wonder why they dont check these things in the factory.
Man, thats most important thing in diving flashlight - quality of these freakin O-rings.
And than they expext Ill cough up dollars for the “great light” with all the wrong parts etc, and than lose my time by searching (if its poossible to find them at all) for the right proportion O-rings etc. Crap
All set for a dive last week, gear loaded, tank filled, batteries charged but the tr df 003 is barely on.
Full charge showing on the batteries with the tr 006, all green. Installed batteries in light, left it on for about 5 minutes and it slowly drained what little charge was left in the batteries.
I put them back in the charger and it shows all green.
I loaded a couple low 18650’s into the charger and it’s all red.
The 26650 batteries are toast. I got about 5 cycles on them.
I googled around “how to tell fake tr flame batteries” apparently there is a holographic sticker that should be on the battery. Guess what…not there.
If you look at the pictures of the light on the MF site the stickers are not there either.
Anyone know where to get the real deal batteries?
My trust in MF is about done for….fool me twice.
This light has been a roller coaster ride.
But I still want to keep it.
I have been doing research on building can lights. The 003 might be a candidate for that.
As for a diffuser, the outer bezel ring unscrews. There is an o ring on it but the aluminum ring doesn’t even contact the inner rings outer surface. It doesn’t seem to perform any function at all except that it would make a great place to put a thin diffuser, between the two rings. There is already a 1 ml gap there.
Ahmet:
There is a spot on the side of the tr 006 charger for an adapter cable to plug in.
If you want a great diffuser for this light check out the last post in my thread
Sorry to hear about your batteries, they do have great reviews if you do end up with the real ones though.
Sweet! That looks like a great light for video. No hotspot and powerful. Beats the little LiquidImage 300LM I’m currently using hands down. Can’t wait to see some underwater footage.
Still looking for the real deal batteries. MF has them, they just don’t come with that light though.
Talk about shorting out, My lights were bubbling under water. the tail caps lost a lot of paint. the bodies and heads lost a lot of metal. I mean like pieces just started breaking away from the lights. I have dozens of pot marks on the lights. the bezel of one has corroded away so bad that I have a 1/16 gap almost all the way around the head.
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Holy Alka Seltzer! Sorry to see that.
Those are great shots of the problem with this light. I’d send those right to the customer service dept.
I hope you were still able to shoot some of your dives.
Same thing happened to my 003. It’s just a dumb design for a dive light. It needs a proper switch. Did you notice that the lights wouldn’t turn fully off or change modes while this was going on?
That is an awesome tray set up. Did you make it?
I’m looking at a few different lights now. Ones I can source in North America so that return, shipping, customer service etc…is not such a PITA.
DRIS 1000
Novae MJ-810E
Tovatec SL1 at B&H photo
All of these look like they’d fit that tray of yours.
A decent triple xm-l dive light of around 1500 lm for under $100 just doesn’t exist.
The TR DF003 is too good to be true. This is definitely a design issue, not a production glitch.
If some relatively inexpensive improvements were made to the design this would be a killer (budget ?) light that wouldn’t cost too much more than it does now.
Is this considered some type of galvanic corrosion such as what happens on a boat if there are electrical leaks? If so, is this all caused due to the type of O-rings used? Sorry to see this!
Yup, I made the tray at work. In total with everything on it she was 7.5 lbs but in the saltwater it took 5 mins to get used to the weight as most of it was gone.
So one of the bodies on the lights is completely corroded to the head so if the o-rings ever go I’m pooched. Tried for an hour no luck getting it off. could use a vice since they are chipped like crazy anyway. To my knowledge o-rings would have nothing to do with the corrosion. Here are some more pics after they were out of the water and cleaned up.
Hehe, it looks like itll dissapear after second dive
I wonder do all budget diving lights corrode like this. XTAR lights?
That MCE 2X18650 light (Magicshine?) about wich we talked a lot here?
DX just today listed this flashlight, price: US$ 100,70
http://dx.com/p/trustfire-tr-df003-3-x-cree-xm-l-t6-3000lm-5-mode-white-light-diving-flashlight-black-2-x-26650-155784
My friend bought this lamp and took it to local shop for testing. Max output was 1063 lumens 
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/16735593/trustfire_tr-df003_jarmo%20(kopio).png
I was going to buy same lamp, but seeing those test results changed my mind. I think that it would be good result for one led light but not 3. Tested current at max brightness was about 1.3A.
Is that unit somehow broken or are leds used approximately 30% of maximum power for some reason?
I have my TR DF003 about a week now. This lil diving light was clocked at 1440 Lumens a number of times by me. Even without a meter i can say with certainty this is no 1000 lumen light.
The numbers dont exactly jive as well…3 X XM-L 1063 Div by 3 = ?
Nooooo way
Welcome to the family, ColdWater Diver!
Anyone who has dived with this flashlight and did not have problems?
I’ve tried today at home under water and I have seen that sometimes does not respond to changes in light mode when turning, tomorrow I’ll go to a store to buy O-rings
quality and diving’ll try it next Saturday.
Greetings from Barcelona
Welcome to Flashoholics Anonymous, shackleton!
Has anyone changed better driver into this flashlight to get more light from it?
When I make deep dives, I need as much light as possible, but those deep dives are not very long. 1 hour runtime would be enough at full power. Also it would be nice to have lower power modes for longer dives.