Too funny. I forgot what we were talking about. I thought “rook” might have been Finnish slang for something else.
The, since I’m personally responsible for messing up a great review, I will try to make it up to you by giving away one of these lights when I hit 2000 posts. Totally serious. I am sorry because while everyone knows I don’t mind straying from the OP after a thread has started to come to a close, I feel really, really bad about doing it in something that like this review that I know took you lots of time, but perhaps worse yet, is “stickied”.
I will order one up this week so that it is available when the time comes.
Three fully charged Eneloop drained to 0.8V after leaving it inside the ‘Rook’ for just 2 weeks without using it (I was away for 2 weeks).
Since the ‘Rook’ cannot be locked out, I place a piece of round thin cardboard between the battery and the head unit to lock it out. Troublesome when come to use the light which need to remove the cardboard first before it can be used.
Thanks for the review! Great light, but I really dislike the colour. I will wait for the black version to come out (or for the zebralight q50, if they ever release it)
A few weeks back, I sent the follow email to BlackShadow Technology:
Why not black?
The Sky Ray King is, and always has been, a popular light. However, a very significant percentage of owners (including myself) don't really like the colour that much, and aren't too enthusiastic about adding new lights to our collection in the same colour. There will always be those who like gold/sand of course, but why not make some of your new lights in black too? Everyone likes black. You can't go wrong with it. I would have bought a Rook by now if it wasn't for the colour, and I know for a fact that I'm not the only one. Just some constructive feedback from a potential customer. I hope you will consider it. Thanks for reading :)
This was their reply:
Thanks for all of your attentions and support of our flashlight, we really appreciate it. Regarding the black type flashlight, thanks for your advice, I will send it to our engineers, we did have some customers who want black color before. We totally know black is the mainstream, but what we want is difference, we hope you can recognize us at first sight.
Yours sincerely,
Helen
The part where I said I would have bought one by now if it was black was before I learned about the dismal AA performance. But it's probably still true.
Sure, grey would do it for me as well. Anything but fracking gold (which isn’t even really gold). BlackShadow have succeeded in making some of their lights stand out alright. But they stand out as examples that a ton of people don’t like.
Oops, forgot to say - awesome review, makes me want one. Are there different versions of this light out there? ask because I’ve heard others say the standby drain is really bad, but this review says it’s not all that bad.