Well, I received the lights and I have finished testing on them. They have both been put through a lot of torture and one is dead. Which one? You'll find out when I post pictures and everything else (most likely tomorrow morning)
and i’m guessing my guess was wrong. not the first time of course.
i have the utmost confidence in Old-Lumens, but i’m pretty sure, as has been said before, that these are both going to be junk very soon. now i’m going to go sob…
both survive freezing. uf leakes. neither live through boil. drop test? no problem, oil? no worries, tractor trailer? OL is making a nice mobile out of 2 - dimensional hosts.
During the Intermission I am going to contemplate just how a $50 (or $45, or $35) Chinese light can be made so poorly. I just Googled that light and did not know how much it cost. What a joke. $50 and the plating comes off the reflector, the O rings do nothing? That's a sub $10 light, not a $50 light. My belief in Ultrafire being one of the worst producers of lights has again been reaffirmed.
O-L, in the UF-T50’s defense please keep in mind that last picture was taken after all of the following: a night in a snow bank and an hour underwater in the basement sump and two heavy cycles in the washing machine and an extra heavy cycle in the dryer and an hour in the oven at 200F and frozen solid in a block of ice overnight and defrosted and soaked in a pot for an hour and then boiled. Granted, it started leaking with the first wash and got progressively worse but maybe it was leaking at the switch? These two lights are my only frame of reference for this kind of abuse but I’m surprised either one made it as far as they did. Maybe other budget light brands would have done better? Suggestions anyone?
I agree that UF-t50 may be a little overpriced, but I am still impressed it held up through more-than-demanding tests that the typical person wouldn’t put their lights through (on purpose) very often.
Drop and drag and crush tests are a true test of durability as well, and I can’t wait to see what Scaru discovered!!