D’oh, sorry, forgot to make a small review about my HD2010 from Meritline :bigsmile:
Well, got it from them because of 30% off coupon. $25.89 instead of $36.99
Ok, it took about 3 weeks (ordered Friday, Aug 10th, received Monday, Sep 3rd). Not so bad for Singapore Post (with tracking, btw).
Came in white box, light was bubble wrapped. All this in normal, bubble wrapped orange envelope. But… look at that box!
lol :bigsmile: When I saw it I thought my HD will be like sh*t.
Surprisingly, it was in perfect condition Almost all bubbles were popped though :bigsmile: Man, any other, smaller thing, wouldn’t survive such a torture.
At a glance - everything’s perfect. Yeah, I found a pair of very tiny dents’n’chips (almost all HD have, unfortunately), a little bit rough corners… but again, for 26 bucks… really nice finish It’s my first **fire brand
- Very grippy knurling.
- Not-so-even anno between fins.
- Veeery clean reflector. Some small imperfections around the led, but it doesn’t affect the beam apparently.
- Clear crystal (almost), with small fingerprint on the edge.
- Clean threads, with no lube at all. Strange, but one of the o-rings was perfect, I mean, perfect size for that diameter (haven’t dismounted the head yet)
- Well centered emitter. CW, spill is awfully purple :sick: :bigsmile:
- Adapter tube for 18650 is a bad cut piece of plastic. Will be always inside anyway, so no one will see it :bigsmile:
As for driver - looks like the same driver all HDs have. Modes are spaced almost identically to my UF P60 drop-in from Manafont. No visible PWM in all modes SOS mode starts with O (O-S-S-O-S-S-O-S…), but it’s still a true SOS mode.
UPDATE: no, I was wrong, it starts with S, i.e.: SO-OSO-OSO…
Currents? 2,4A (stock leads) with charged TF 2400 @HI, exactly same current my P60 drop-in has Couldn’t check currents at MED and LOW, light started to flicker (someone already reported this behavior before, if I remember well).
A few pics for comparison. Beamshot was made with fully charged TF flames (overexposed though my Samsung doesn’t have lower exposure and this thing throws like a monster!!)
To sum up: great light! Great thrower! My first and, probably, last big thrower though. Quite useless for me, still prefer EDC size