Let the light run on high for a few mins. It unscrews real easy then. I did it with my hands. There’s only a small amount of thermal paste holding the parts together. Just watch when you are unscrewing that the reflector does not move. You may accidentally break the leads.
I didn’t bother removing the bezel on mine, but I did remove the collar holding down the driver before unscrewing the head. I figured there wouldn’t be any chance of twisting up the wires to the driver with it hanging out of the head. Hard to believe all this current is going through those two little wires.
Tried just before I posted to unscrew it, cold or hot no difference used a towel also. perhaps I have screwed it too fast in when I screwed the other parts together…
I don’t want to change the driver either, until we can get some mini nuclear reactors for powering it….
Edit tried again with some work gloves with latex on them, very easy too unscrew now. Mine has a big drop of the thermal grease on the inside. LOL
I doubt that driver is more efficient (but it could be) - the big difference is it draws more power (if batteries are capable) and delivers more power to the leds.
I recently purchased one of these from RIC (still in route), and every time I get one of these multi-LED lights that use 26650 cells, the cell stack is either too tall (all protected cells)or too short (unprotected cells) for the body. My question to the battery guru’s on the site, do all the cells need to be protected? Logic tells me, as long as one is protected, the others don’t need to be. As long as the base cell is the same for all three, the one protected cell effectively protects all the cells and flashlight internals from damage due under voltage, over current, etc. Once the protected cell trips, the whole assembly will shut down regardless. Is this true?
Not true, because cells are always different.
If you have 3 cells one could have less capacity or less charged so this cell will get over discharged when it is not protected.
Only thing one protected could do is to prevent from shorting the circuit.
hence i feel safer using it in 18650 format , has anyone on here ever had one that blew up in their hands ?
yeah a 9x or 12x led in skyray king type setup would be nice but mayb too hot or chunky to hold with 4x 26650. i feel the sky ray king is already perfect fit for me unless you are 2 meters tall with massive hands i dont think u want to hold anything bigger then skyray king.
I can’t believe I placed an order for this driver. I must be nuts to want to do this to an already super bright flood monster that took out my Trustfire TR-J12 in a beam comparision.
I did ask if this 9X driver can be reprogrammed for better modes like some of their others, 100–75–50–30–10%, but I was told this particular driver can’t be and must remain as a 3-mode, but luckily no flashy modes. They are going to upgrade the driver at some point to the modes I listed and with no blinkies of course. I wasn’t given a time table for when that’ll happen.
Is there any difference in brightness between using 3 18650’s and 3 26650’s in this light?
I got mine today but I am still waiting on my 26650’s to arrive so I threw some trustfire 18650’s in there to try it out. HOLY MOLY ITS BRIGHT! Im hoping it will be even brighter with the 26650’s.